2024 Integrated Report

2. Strategy

Strategy of the energies and services businesses

EQUANS

Equans is a world leader in energies and services. It provides its clients with customised solutions and services to meet the challenges of the energy, industrial and digital transitions. Thanks to its excellent technical know-how in the fields of electrical engineering and HVAC, Equans helps ramp up its clients’ transitions to a low-carbon and resilient world.

2024 key figures
  • €19.2 bn Sales
  • €680 m Current operating profit from activities
  • €25.4 bn Backlog
Operational priorities
  • Continue improving to be best-in-class on the following top priorities: safety, ethics and cybersecurity.
  • Raise the bar for operational excellence through the ongoing roll-out of the Perform strategic plan…
  • Develop high-value-added services, continue to focus on speciality areas whilst remaining selective in the choice of projects.

SPAIN - Pierre Guérin, a subsidiary of Equans since 2019, manufactures stainless steel tanks and process lines for the pharmaceutical and agri-food industries.

Address energy and climate challenges

As a leading player in the energy, digital and industrial transitions, Equans is working to accelerate its customers’ shift to a resilient, low-carbon future by participating in the construction of low-carbon power stations (solar, wind and nuclear), and by helping customers reduce their own energy use, switch to electric vehicles and systems, and store heat and electricity. Equans also supports its customers in developing more resilient, climate-adapted processes and assets.

Contribute to a low-carbon energy future

To meet the growing global demand for renewable energy (with installed capacity expected to be 2.5 times its current level by 2030 – IEAa), Equans operates across the entire value chain by:

  • developing renewable energy production and nuclear power infrastructure;
  • revamping and expanding medium-and high-voltage networks;
  • championing low-carbon mobility, such as the electrification of public transport systems:
  • reducing electricity use and recovering waste heat;
  • adopting heat pumps and other electric systems.
Take a selective approach in high-growth markets

Through its “Select & Focus” policy, Equans is aiming to develop new, high-value-added projects and services by:

  • getting each of its 1,200 profit centres to define a growth plan for its market every year;
  • leveraging its dense branch footprint to take on local projects and provide add-on services for repeat customers;
  • reinforcing its position in its fast-growing areas of specialised expertise, with the backing of dedicated teams;
  • helping to nurture new solutions that address emerging issues or financing, for example the use of artificial intelligence for the maintenance of solar farms or the Elinvest investment structure for the financing of electric vehicle charge points that are accessible to the public.