Alstom and Bouygues to create EMBIX, a joint venture providing energy-management services for eco-districts

Января 14, 2011

Alstom and Bouygues - through its subsidiaries Bouygues Immobilier and ETDE - have agreed to create a 50/50 joint venture under the name EMBIX to develop and provide energy-management services for eco-districts. The initiative opens a new chapter in the fruitful partnership begun by Bouygues and Alstom in 2006.

EMBIX will offer a wide range of services with high added value, ranging from audits for eco-districts taking account of new environmental and regulatory requirements to optimisation of energy performance through the use of information systems featuring the latest advances in Smart Grid technologies.
The new company will draw on the skills and expertise of its founders:
- Bouygues Immobilier sets the standard in sustainable property development and proved its ability to stay a step ahead of energy regulations for buildings by starting work on its first large-scale positive-energy building project in 2007 (Green Office®). The company also offers established skills and expertise in developing new districts that pave the way for the city of the future;
- through its facility-management subsidiary Exprimm, ETDE will provide know-how in managing the energy performance of buildings and supervising their technical facilities;
- Alstom Power brings a range of unique solutions for distributed power-generation and integrated-storage;
- Alstom Grid offers unparalleled expertise in microgrid security and management of energy demand.
The move to set up EMBIX comes at a time when potential is flourishing as local authorities and building owners, managers, and tenants in the corporate sector seek out service offerings for environmental and economic optimisation of energy performance.
Intelligent energy-management services at the scale of eco-districts have become a cornerstone of future development, underpinned by a mix of environmental, regulatory, technological and sociological factors.
The recent emergence of renewable energy solutions such as solar, small-wind and geothermal power in the urban environment, along with new storage capabilities (e.g. electric vehicles) and a growing sense of eco-citizenship have made the need to manage energy performance more vital than ever.
This trend has been given further impetus by the introduction of new energy regulations both in France (RT2012 for buildings and the "NOME" law on the new organisation of electricity markets) and across Europe, with new objectives for 2020 targeting a 20% increase in energy efficiency, a 20% reduction in the carbon footprint and a 20% share for renewable energies in the European energy mix.