Renault Group is accelerating the decarbonisation plan for its plants in France and innovating with new partners

Voltalia, ENGIE, and Dalkia

Renault Group is accelerating the decarbonisation plan for its plants in France and innovating with new partners: Voltalia, ENGIE, and Dalkia.

• Renault Group announces three major partnerships with energy players;
• With Voltalia, the largest green electricity supply contract in France to cover up to 50% of the electricity consumption of its production activities in 2027 through the installation of photovoltaic panels;
• with the ENGIE group, a first-of-its-kind deep geothermal project in Europe that would replace 70% of the gas needs of the Douai plant by 2025;
• With Dalkia, EDF Group, a partnership to install a biomass boiler to replace 65% of the gas consumption at its Maubeuge plant;
• These three strategic partnerships constitute a new step in the Global Climate Plan and will make it possible to achieve net zero carbon for the plants of the ElectriCity cluster in France in 2025, in Europe in 2030 and worldwide in 2050.
  
  

Boulogne-Billancourt, November 24, 2022 – As part of its Renaulution strategy, Renault Group today announces an acceleration of the decarbonization plan for its industrial sites with three strategic and unprecedented partnerships to achieve its energy transition objectives. This new stage is materializing today with Voltalia for the largest green electricity supply contract in France – for the French factories of the Group; with ENGIE for the first deep geothermal project on a European industrial site, in Douai; with Dalkia, EDF Group, for the installation of a biomass boiler, in Maubeuge.

Committed to the energy transition for more than 10 years and reaffirmed in the Climate Plan in April 2021, the Group confirms its commitments to achieve net zero carbon at its ElectriCity plants in Hauts-de-France by 2025, in Europe by 2030 and worldwide by 2050. The Group is drawing up a large-scale concrete plan to accelerate industrial decarbonization via photovoltaics, geothermal energy and biomass, among other initiatives.

Luca de Meo, CEO of Renault Group, said: "Today we are taking a strategic step towards achieving carbon neutrality in our plants. Thanks to this partnership signed with Voltalia, ElectriCity will become the Group's first production hub to be supplied with carbon-free and competitive electricity. And we don't stop there! We are already working on the next step of our plan and are working towards carbon-free heat to power our factories. In Douai, we are proud to launch with ENGIE one of the most ambitious decarbonisation projects on a European industrial site: the installation of deep geothermal energy. Finally, we are very pleased to partner with Dalkia to launch a biomass boiler project at the Maubeuge plant. We take responsibility, as a leading car manufacturer, to innovate and reduce the carbon footprint of our plants."