In lighting and urban improvement, VINCI Energies assists local authorities in reducing their energy consumption and carbon footprint. In 2024, business units under the Citeos brand managed 110 comprehensive energy performance contracts for local authorities in France, with quantified targets. One example is the 12-year contract with the town of Moulins (Allier), which aims to achieve a 74% reduction in energy consumption by the third year. It includes the renovation and monitoring of public lighting and traffic lights, and an option involving the installation of photovoltaic arrays for self-consumption at several municipal sites. In Spain, VINCI Energies completely overhauled public lighting in the community of municipalities in the Txorierri valley, in the province of Bizkaia, for instance by replacing all its existing bulbs with LEDs.
Pending the acceleration of the new EPR programme, the mostly France-based nuclear business has been buoyed by the recurring volume of maintenance and life extension work on existing power plants. VINCI Energies’ specialised teams work alongside EDF at all its nuclear power plants and also carry out projects for other industry players – for example extending the Georges Besse 2 uranium enrichment plant for Orano.
In France, Grand Paris Express projects were the main business driver. Following completion of the civil engineering work, several of these projects are now reaching the execution phase, which is where VINCI Energies becomes involved. Its companies have been awarded various contracts covering the electrical architecture, traction power system, fibre optic infrastructure, multi-service network and monitoring systems for the new lines (15, 16, 17 and 18). VINCI Energies is also partnering with VINCI Construction on the all-trades contract for Line 15 West, under the first design-build tender issued by Société des Grands Projets. Outside France, the two business lines are also working together on the renovation of the Louis-Hippolyte La Fontaine tunnel in Montreal, Canada’s longest immersed tunnel.
VINCI Energies is contributing to the development of low-carbon road transport by deploying electric vehicle charging infrastructure. In France, Easy Charge, a joint venture with VINCI Autoroutes, was awarded a public service contract to set up 1,600 charge points on the eborn network. This will bring the total number of points in the network to 4,800 across 11 departments in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur regions by 2028. In connection with this project, Easy Charge and the Fonds de Modernisation Écologique des Transports created Easy Charge Services. This company has completed or continued the installation of EV charge points on behalf of local authorities, including the urban communities of Le Grand Chalon (Saône-et-Loire) and Grand Besançon Métropole (Doubs), the Aude department and the cities of La Baule (Loire-Atlantique), Boulogne-sur-Mer (Pas-de-Calais) and Gap (Hautes-Alpes). Lastly, 18 high-power charging stations are currently being built in eastern France for the Avia Volt network. In total, Easy Charge has set up 6,500 charge points in France since its inception in 2017.
In Germany, VINCI Energies will be responsible for deploying a network of 828 charge points at 106 stations in the Berlin, Hamburg and Leipzig areas for eliso, a VINCI Concessions subsidiary.
Business in this area grew 5% to €4.8 billion year on year.
With the acquisition of RH Marine and Bakker Sliedrecht (combined revenue of €160 million, 620 employees), VINCI Energies is now expanding its industrial activities by branching into the integration of electrical and automation systems in the maritime industry in the Netherlands. The Actemium network of business units also strengthened its positions in Europe and Asia through several acquisitions in Germany (Miprotek GmbH, Kramer & Best Anlagenbau GmbH and Leukhardt Schaltanlagen Systemtechnik GmbH), Italy (Giordano & C S.p.A) and Singapore (E+HPS). With more than 500 business units in 40 countries, the network brings together and implements a range of technical expertise – monitoring and control, electrical engineering and instrumentation, mechanics, robotics – across most industrial sectors. Thanks to the close relationships they maintain, Actemium’s business units are fully familiar with their customers’ processes. At the same time, they can rely on Actemium’s intercompany network for support in all aspects of their projects and multi-site programmes.
The need to optimise energy consumption and reduce CO2 emissions while pursuing a competitive edge is prompting players in most industries – particularly high-emission ones such as chemicals and steel – to transform or upgrade their processes, both through new-build projects and improvements to existing production facilities. Actemium’s business units address these issues throughout the production cycle, from upstream systemic analysis of energy flows and the implementation of new low-carbon processes through to the optimisation of maintenance services intended to extend the lifespan of facilities.
Actemium’s business units also support their customers by developing digital solutions to optimise their data flows and integrate novel solutions for automation, traceability, cybersecurity and predictive maintenance.
The following selection illustrates the diversity in projects carried out by VINCI Energies in industry.
Number of comprehensive energy performance contracts managed by Citeos teams in France in 2024.
