Industry

Food industry: 480 MWh managed and a bill under control

An energy-intensive production site securing supply against price volatility.

Client needs / Specifics

Cold-chain lines running around the clock that could not be shifted in time: every market price surge hit the company's margin directly.

Julien Roche

Site director

Our solution

Eneffic offered a thirty-six-month fixed price, audited the load profiles to find efficiency gains and rounded out the setup with a partial demand-response plan.

Business activity: Food manufacturing
Proposed solution: Multi-year fixed-price offer

The solution we delivered

The manufacturer ran continuous cold-chain lines, highly exposed to price spikes. Eneffic locked in a three-year rate to stabilise unit costs.

The context

Consumption, concentrated on refrigeration equipment, could not be shifted in time. Every surge in market prices hit the company's margin directly.

The rollout

We offered a thirty-six-month fixed-price contract, and audited the load profiles to find efficiency gains. A partial demand-response plan rounded out the setup.

Our role and contribution

Eneffic combined price security with in-depth work on consumption to durably stabilise unit costs.

Load-profile analysis
Audit of the refrigeration equipment and identification of efficiency gains.
36-month fixed-price offer
A rate locked at a market low for three full financial years.
Partial demand-response plan
A complementary scheme to monetise the site's residual flexibility.

Results

The cost per MWh fell by 11% and is now predictable across three financial years. Management could fold energy back into unit-cost calculations with near-zero margin of error.

-11 %

off the cost per MWh

Energy became a predictable cost again, not a risk.