Food & Beverage

With our automation solutions, the Flexcity offer helps food industries choose at any time the most economic alternative to generate heat between gas, electricity and other units.
Beverage industry

At Veolia, we believe that cost savings & sustainability can go hand in hand. How? 

Thanks to the smart control of the electric units, we can enable you to benefit from low prices in the electricity markets when renewable generation is high. The result? Lower emissions, cost savings and and uncompromised quality.

Veolia, thanks to its Flexcity offer, already helps 16 companies in the Food and Beverage sector. 

 

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Major challenges
Facing the food industry

The food industry is characterized by a wide diversity of processes, many requiring heat in the form of hot air, water and steam. 

Most of these processes today are supplied by fossil fuels, but the volatility of gas price and decarbonization targets are challenging the existing model. Our software integrates your heating units, utility demand and decarbonization targets to minimize the cost of your heat generation at any time.

 

Milk industry
Tom Vlaemynck

Tom Vlaemynck
CEO of Tomatomasters

Working with the Flexcity offer of Veolia helped us unlock the full potential of our greenhouses' flexibility. It’s a smart and seamless way to contribute to sustainability, without changing how we grow.

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For each MW of Electric Boiler installed,
you can achieve:100 ~ 400KEUR savings per year compared to a gas boiler+1000ton Scope 1 CO2 reduction per year at cost optimum
20% ~ 50%uptime
 


 
 

Our solution
to ensure your productivity
in the food industry

So that brings a unique opportunity to choose how and when the heat is generated! 

By automatically valorizing the different heat-producing assets on flex markets, Veolia, through its Flexcity offer, can capture the lowest prices at times when renewable output peaks or the grid needs support.


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Marco Mazzotta

Marco Mazzotta
Global Category Procurement Manager Energy at FrieslandCampina

With this first E-Boiler project and cooperation with Veolia's Flexcity offer, FrieslandCampina is actively reducing CO2 emissions and is helping to stabilize the public electricity grid in the neighborhood in the most economical way. There is more to come!

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Customer benefits:
Optimisation
and sustainability

 

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They trust us

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Gas Turbine

Case study:
Beneo Orafti enhances turbine performance

Thanks to Flexcity offer’s technology and market expertise, the Beneo Oreye gas turbine can be activated several times in a day to produce less electricity for few minutes.

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Case study:
Tomatomasters monetises energy flexibility with Veolia’s expertise

Tomatomasters and Veolia's Flexcity offer have achieved together - valorising 28 MW across greenhouses in Deinze, Flanders.

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Steven Van Nuffelen
Owner, Stannuco

Working with Veolia’s Flexcity offer, we've transformed our energy infrastructure from a cost center into a strategic asset. The platform's intelligent approach allows us to optimize across all our systems—CHP, e-boilers—while maintaining perfect production conditions.

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Need to optimise
your assets?

 

 

Industrial Assets, Heating System