Ramping up decarbonisation of mobility and regions
In line with their commitment to sustainable mobility, companies in the Concessions business are actively rolling out electric vehicle charging stations and developing solar power plants. The expertise initially applied to motorway networks and airports managed by the Group is today expanding into all types of projects and reaching a variety of clients in all the regions where it operates.
Voltix
Set up in 2023, Voltix supports the decarbonisation of road freight transport by developing public charging stations for electric heavy vehicles along major roads. Its goal is to bring a first such station into service in France in 2025.
eliso
The subsidiary specialising in charging infrastructure in Germany won three contracts under the Deutschlandnetz Regional programme, in 2023, to develop ultra-fast EV charging stations throughout the country. For this project representing a total investment of around €200 million, funded in part by the concession-granting authority, VINCI Concessions obtained green financing amounting to €130 million. The 12-year contract covers installation, operation and maintenance of 106 stations with 828 high-power (400 kW) charge points in 12 of the 16 German Länder. The first stations will be brought into service in 2025.
SunMind
A subsidiary created to support the decarbonisation of VINCI Airports’ activities, SunMind’s main achievement to date is the development and later operation of solar power plants at Faro airport in Portugal and Toulon Hyères airport in France. It also proposes turnkey solutions from financing through to operation for businesses and local authorities, helping them take advantage of their building and land potential to develop their own decarbonisation projects. In Sweden, where it developed a 100 MWp-capacity solar power plant on the site of Stockholm Skavsta airport to the south of the capital, previously managed by VINCI Airports, the company has acquired Helios, which specialises in upstream development of solar power projects and energy storage battery systems. At end-2024, photovoltaic projects with capacity totalling 1.4 GWp were under development in 10 countries.
Solarvia
This subsidiary deploys a strategy similar to that of SunMind, but drawing on the potential offered by the Group’s motorway network in France. It develops ground-based and canopy solar power plants, primarily for VINCI Autoroutes, which has identified 1,000 hectares over its network that could be set aside to install 200 solar power plants, but also works on projects on behalf of clients outside the Group. At the end of 2024, 65 projects were in development, for a total capacity of 439 MWp.