Press Releases

ACEA and SUEZ Group sign a Term Sheet for a business partnership related to the engineering of a water service advanced smart metering system (so-called smart meter) and its subsequent manufacturing and commercialization in Italy and abroad.

On Wednesday November 24, Francis Hillmeyer, President of Mulhouse region’s SIVOM (Multipurpose Intercommunal Syndicate) and Maximilien Pellegrini, Deputy Chief Executive Officer of SUEZ in charge of France, inaugurated a methanization unit, in the presence of Fabian Jordan, President of the Mulhouse Alsace Agglomeration. Located in the heart of the Sausheim (East of France) ecohub, the unit will make it possible to recover 100% of sludge from the wastewater treatment plant to supply green gas for the equivalent of 125 buses in the agglomeration.

> 88% of French people, i.e., 9 out of 10 French people, consider waste reduction to be a national priority

> A growing interest in re-use practices: 57% of French people adhere to the principle of recovery centers and recycling centers

 

On the occasion of the European Week for Waste Reduction, SUEZ publishes the annual barometer: “Les Français et la réduction des déchets” (“The French and waste reduction”) in partnership with the Odoxa polling institute. This new edition reveals the growing interest of French people in the environment: 9 out of 10 French people consider waste reduction to be a national priority and 56% of them think that it is necessary to adopt new ways of consuming. Faced with this observation, how do French people act to reduce their waste? What are the obstacles encountered and where are the areas for improvement?

For the first time in France, artificial intelligence is being used to detect faults in road network. The innovative “smart truck” solution offered by SUEZ, in partnership with Logiroad, a French specialist in image-based analysis of road deterioration, meets the audit and diagnostic needs of local authorities. Thanks to the regular rounds of household waste collection trucks, local authorities can benefit from continuous road condition analysis services throughout the year.

The 26th UN Conference of the Parties on the climate will bring together more than 200 countries and numerous economic players from October 31, 2021 to November 12, 2021 in Glasgow, United-Kingdom, to accelerate the fight against climate change. To this end, the SUEZ Group, which will be present at the COP 26, is reaffirming its commitments towards protecting the climate by joining to the 1.5°C trajectory defined by the IPCC[1] and will reiterate its concrete actions in favor of the climate.

During the Pollutec trade fair, SUEZ and Waga Energy extend their partnership with the announcement of a new biomethane unit at the Madaillan non-hazardous industrial waste storage facility, at Milhac-d’Auberoche (France). From August 2022, this unit will supply part of the Greater Périgueux region with renewable gas, thereby contributing to the territory’s ecological transition and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. This will be the fifth WAGABOX® unit commissioned by SUEZ and Waga Energy.

On August 14^th, an earthquake of magnitude 7.2 struck Haiti, specifically the departments of South, Grand'Anse and Nippes. The earthquake caused the collapse and destruction of many infrastructures and homes and resulted in more than 2,200 deaths and more than 12,000 injured

The SUEZ Group will participate in the Expo 2020 Dubai whose theme is “Connecting Minds, Building the Future.” As a committed player in the environmental transition, the Group will be presenting France’s vision of the ecological and solidarity-based transition, its innovations and solutions in favor of the circular economy and environmental preservation at the France Pavilion, whose theme is “Lights, Light”. 25 million visitors from over 190 countries are expected throughout the course of the event, from October 1, 2021 through March 31, 2022.