SUEZ announces multiple business wins in France: digital solutions and the circular economy at the heart of its development

This business dynamic is supported by an ambitious and differentiating innovation policy, working for a more circular economy.

SUEZ is fully committed to the resource revolution, especially in France – the Group’s historic home - where 30,000 employees are already implementing totally renewed resource management practices and supporting its customers in adopting a circular economy. SUEZ develops innovative solutions to meet regional challenges and issues, and to offer access to quality drinking water to the greatest number and at the right price, but also to optimise the collection and sorting of our waste, so that it can be used as new resources.

Several significant contracts, including:

• The collection and transportation of wastewater in the Hauts-de-Seine department. This 12-year contract, worth €387 million will come into effect in January 2019. More than €100 million will be invested in the department’s sanitation facilities. The Group will also provide several innovations, including the development of a 3D digital model of the networks. A predictive network management tool will also be implemented to reduce discharges into the natural environment and to avoid the risk of flooding.
• Greater Avignon has chosen SUEZ to manage the drinking water service in 8 municipalities. This 10-year contract, worth €80 million, will come into effect on 1 January 2019. The contract includes the introduction of progressive pricing, the improvement of network yield and the securing of drinking water supplies through works under the terms of the concession.
• Operation of the Rambervillers waste-to-energy plant in the Vosges department and the powering of a new heat network. Evodia has signed a 25-year contract with SUEZ worth a total of €225 million, including total investments of €59 million for the modernisation of the plant and the powering of the new heat network. The facility will process 77,000 tonnes of waste from all over the Vosges department.
• Operation of the wastewater treatment plant of the Eurométropole of Strasbourg. The local authority has renewed its confidence in SUEZ for another 5 years and a total revenue of €75 million. In 2015, this facility was the first to inject biomethane from wastewater into the natural gas network, becoming therefore a nationwide showcase of the circular economy.
• Management and operation of the La Feyssine wastewater treatment plant (€35 million; 8 years) for the Lyon city authority. Aqualyon, the wastewater treatment plant located in La Feyssine, plays a major role in the city’s environmental development. SUEZ’s service offer is based on regulatory and environmental compliance, energy performance, the promotion of assets and social cohesion. In addition to the operation of the treatment plant by its teams, SUEZ will also take part in the activities of biogas injection, starting in October.

The innovative dimension of all of these contracts enables customers to improve their performance and better meet their users’ expectations.

Several contracts for new digital services and solutions, including:

• Management of the drinking water service and deployment of 58,000 On’Connect meters for the Durance Ventoux water syndicate in the Vaucluse department. The Group will modernise the water service and ensure the preservation of water resources in 28 municipalities between the Monts de Vaucluse and the Luberon for a 10-year contract, worth €70 million.
• A new service, in addition of the public service delegation for drinking water of the Saône Veyle syndicate in the Ain department, worth a total revenue of €1.2 million, and including the deployment of an information system for remote readings and the deployment of 9,600 “On’Connect” meters by 2022.
• The support of Bordeaux Metropole in its urban cleaning contract (€10 million; 5 years) in the historical centre, which is the busiest district of the city. The Group developed a tailor-made solution, including the collection of residual household waste, collections from voluntary drop-off sites and cleaning services (roads, urban furniture, fountains, billboards, cigarette butts). This participating service, favouring a sustainable territory, will allow the city to become one of France’s top destinations, while making the cleanness of the district more visible and optimising costs.
• Supply of “ecowood” containers equipped with smart sensors at the collection points for ships and companies operating in La Rochelle port. This 6-year contract worth €900,000 also provides for the maintenance of this equipment and the collection of household waste and hazardous waste that can be recovered. Watertight skips will also be supplied to collect the sludge from scraper equipment.

Amongst the other contracts won by the Group, we can note:

• The public service delegation of the waste to energy and materials unit awarded by the SICTOBA¹ and the SIDOMSA² (South Ardèche). The 20-year contract, worth a total of €80 million, includes the design, construction and management of the future recovery facility, due to come into service in the spring of 2020.
• Operation of the Passage d’Agen household waste incinerator (UIOM), with an annual capacity of 32,000 tonnes, awarded by the Agen local authority for 15 years and worth €60 million in revenues. This contract provides for works to improve the working conditions of employees, the sale of steam to an industrial site and the production of electricity for the site’s self-consumption. In a second stage, the site could be connected to supply energy to an urban heating network.
• Waste treatment for the Emeraude syndicate (270,000 inhabitants in 17 localities in the Val d’Oise department). This 5-year contract provides for the treatment of more than 67,000 tonnes of household waste, for total revenues of €32.5 million.
• The waste treatment of the Paris hospitals, AP-HP (100,000 agents providing healthcare to 10 million inhabitants). This 4-year contract, worth a total revenue of €8 million, provides for the treatment of 12 different waste flows for the hospitals of Cochin, Rothschild, Bicêtre, Necker, Pitié, Trousseau, Hôtel Dieu, etc.
• Management of biowaste and industrial waste for the Rungis international market, under the terms of two contracts. The first covers biowaste management, with a new service for the collection of more than 4,000 tonnes per year (€2.8 million; 4 years). The second provides for the management of 5,700 tonnes per year of industrial waste (plastics, cardboard, polystyrene, etc.) produced by the contracting authority’s equipment (€2 million; 7 years).
• Construction of a new plant for the Morbihan water syndicate to replace the existing infrastructure in Tréauray for a €6.9 million revenue.
• Construction of the new Preuilly drinking water plant for the Vienne department water syndicate. This contract worth more than €2 million will provide with the leading-edge technologies of SUEZ to guarantee high-performance water treatment. Micropollutants will be physically extracted using membrane-based separation techniques.
• The deployment of “Degrés Bleus”, the solution chosen by the Emeraude aquatic parks in Louvroil and Ecoeurdreville, for a total revenue of €400,000. This economical and ecological solution captures the heat of wastewater and re-injects it into heating circuits.

¹ SICTOBA: Syndicat Intercommunal de Collecte des Ordures Ménagères de Basse Ardèche

² SIDOMSA: Syndicat Intercommunal de Destruction des Ordures Ménagères du Secteur d’Aubenas