Helexia

Carbon neutrality for businesses is not just a goal— it's an imperative. However, the challenge is not understanding its importance; it's charting the pathway to achieve it. This journey demands financial investments, state-of-the-art technologies, strong commitment, and strategic collaborations with companies and property owners.

Helexia, a vanguard in the renewable energy services sector, is leading the way with a clear mission – guide sectors such as retail, F&B, real estate, and logistics to carbon neutrality. The firm distinguishes itself by emphasising overhauling clients' operations rather than just their products. It achieves this feat by offering tailor-made renewable energy technologies and supporting businesses in seamlessly adopting these solutions.

“We educate businesses about the environmental sustainability expectations of customers and government entities as opposed to solely instructing them about the importance of being carbon neutral,” says Levi Mariën, Country Director of Helexia Belgium.

The renewable energy service provider offers clients a thorough understanding of market dynamics, legal mandates, changing consumer habits, and effective strategies to reduce energy use and emissions. This partnership commences by raising awareness among business stakeholders about the imperative of decarbonisation, juxtaposed with the tangible fiscal rewards it can yield upon adept execution.

Central to Helexia's approach is the Quick Carbon ID analysis—a diagnostic tool that pinpoints the origins of energy emissions. After this evaluation, clients are privy to an exhaustive workshop. This session delves into the findings, demystifying the legal, fiscal, and regulatory pathways towards diminishing their carbon footprint. These workshops are pivotal platforms, enabling concerned parties to comprehend the multifaceted dividends of sustainability and charting the course for milestones en route to carbon neutrality—a gateway to enhanced credibility, unwavering customer allegiance, market pre-eminence, and cost-effectiveness.
Helexia further initiates its ‘Strategic Energy Plan’ to assist businesses in reaching the pre-set goals. This blueprint critically examines client operations, offering guidance on assimilating optimal renewable electricity interventions for heightened energy efficiency. The spectrum of alternatives presented spans solar panel installations, geothermal solutions for infrastructural insulation, and cutting-edge e-mobility solutions catering to logistics and transportation needs.

To enhance clarity, Helexia presents a financial report detailing the costs of adopting these green solutions, highlighting current and potential strategies. Each step is designed to lead clients towards carbon neutrality, all while showcasing the expected return on investment.

For those hesitant about funding these green initiatives, Helexia has a solution – third-party financing. Using an off-balance financing model, it invests in and develops infrastructure, like solar panel systems. Helexia then provides the generated electricity to businesses at competitive rates under an Energy Performance Contract (EPC). This model ensures affordability and cements Helexia's accountability to promised savings and true decarbonisation. This model ensures affordability and cements Helexia's accountability to promised savings and true decarbonisation.

Helexia assists businesses of all sizes in their sustainable transition. For instance, a retail giant’s facility manager leveraged the firm’s expertise to persuade the board about decarbonisation's benefits, resulting in solar infrastructure adoption despite budget constraints. Similarly, numerous SMEs collaborate with the renewable energy service provider, using its 'Energy Charter'—a condensed version of its Strategic Energy Plan—as a tangible declaration of their green commitment.

Testament to Helexia's global reach and adaptability is its status as the autonomous subsidiary of Voltalia Group, a renewable energy powerhouse present in 20 countries. Drawing from this vast network, Helexia, with over 500 experts, extends its services across three continents, allowing it to respond flexibly to energy challenges and demands faced by multinational companies. This facilitates clients to avail unified services for multiple corporate branches while saving negotiation hours, costs, and execution time by drafting a singular framework agreement.

With the pressing global imperative of carbon neutrality as its North Star, Helexia remains committed to its role as the stalwart ally, steering businesses—and, by extension, the planet—towards a brighter, sustainable tomorrow.