Energy services
We aim to create a future-ready energy ecosystem in which near real-time data, intelligent control, and predictive insights empower us to actively manage our energy performance, structurally optimise costs, unlock additional business opportunities and develop initiatives for sustainable energy opportunities.
By implementing a scalable and dynamic energy management system, we are building transparency, control, efficiency, flexibility and sustainability at the core of our operations.
Energy is no longer a cost item, but a strategic lever for resilience, innovation and impact.
To focus our efforts and drive results, we have structured our energy services around five pillars:
Energy portfolio management
EV charging
Energy procurement policy
On-site renewable energy
Energy management systems
Energy portfolio management
We are developing initiatives to capitalise on the growing demand for sustainable energy. Our ambition is to establishan additional growth engine and create new revenue streams that empower us for the future.
Our energy network hubs will focus on energy optimisation, flexibility and value creation with the following building blocks:
Battery storage: balance peak and off-peak demand, and increase peak capacity.
Dashboards: measure and balance supply and demand, enable forecasting.
Monitor energy trends: track market developments and price movements.
Market responsiveness: maintain flexibility to respond to market dynamics and operational changes.
EV charging
We continue to expand our EV charging infrastructure across our parking facilities, supporting the transition to electric mobility.
Given increasing grid constraints, we coordinate grid upgrades and actively manage connection capacity through our ‘Grip-on-Grid’ approach, ensuring reliable and scalable deployment.
Grip-on-Grid
Grid capacity constraints continue to cause connection delays and limit the available capacity across the countries in which we operate. If we are to continue expanding our EV charging point offering in our parking facilities, we need to upgrade our electricity supply.
This can be complex and time-consuming. To address these issues, we have developed a structured approach ‘Grip-on-Grid’ with targeted action plans per geographical area.
Energy procurement policy
Our energy procurement policy is designed to be flexible and mitigate risks in a volatile and complex energy market. We will help our country organisations excel by sharing information on the following topics:
Procurement: secure flexible supply contracts and offer local procurement decision-making guidelines.
Risk management: apply a balanced approach by varying procurement timing and price fixation.
Ensure cost efficiency: secure competitive pricing and long-term cost predictability.
Harmonise procurement practices: ensure consistency, transparency, and accountability.
Enhance sustainability: prioritise procuring electricity from renewable sources.
On-site renewable energy
We invest in generating renewable energy on site, primarily through solar installations at our locations.
Solar generation:
develop business cases and investment assessments
support project engineering
generate renewable solar energy
Plan and size installations: prioritise self-consumption, with battery storage and load balancing
Energy management systems
We deploy scalable energy management systems to improve efficiency and control in all our operations. By reducing our baseload consumption, implementing proven energy-efficient technologies and enabling data-driven optimisation, we enhance operational performance and reduce our environmental impact. Our energy management priorities include:
Dashboards: to measure, enable forecasting and data-driven energy optimisation.
Savings: reduce baseload energy consumption.
Energy assets: by actively steering energy assets in our PFs, we are able to optimise grid connections and increase EV charging offering.