Solution 2 — Industrial process hybridization
Consume your heat from decarbonized and managed electricity.
As a complement to or substitute for gas, we electrify your thermal process — electric burners and boilers coupled with our Eco-Stock® thermal storage. You consume heat at the best time, and reduce your dependence on a single energy source.As a complement to or substitute for gas, we electrify your thermal process — electric burners and boilers coupled with our Eco-Stock® thermal storage. You consume heat at the best time, and reduce your dependence on a single energy source.
Installation control
Produce heat at the right time, according to your strategy.
Based on the full cost of heat from gas or electric installations, managing the electricity-based heat supply is key.
When to produce electric heat?
Illustrative diagram — final version being finalized.
Optionally, managed by ETC
We leverage your gas and electricity supply contracts, installation efficiency, and thermal implications to operate the electric installation at the right time — according to your strategy: maximum decarbonization or maximum energy bill optimization.
In the hands of the manufacturer
Your teams control the start of electric production according to your own operating rules and energy contract structure.
The problem
Gas is expensive, and you have no control over its price.
Geopolitical volatility, increasing carbon taxation, ever-stricter customer requirements for carbon footprint: single-source dependence on gas is a strategic risk.
Diversifying the heat supply source by integrating electricity is a lever for sovereignty and competitiveness.
Intelligent management of electricity consumption helps stabilize your costs and reduce your emissions: the Eco-Stock® stores heat during the cheapest hours and reuses it later. Furthermore, grid flexibility services are expanding, and electricity consumption adjustment can be monetized through RTE.
Heat electrification — Villeroy & Boch (Valence d'Agen, 82)
What you gain
What you concretely get.
We adapt to your strategy
Target decarbonization rate objective
Based on a target decarbonization rate, typically 70%, we implement a management system to achieve this decarbonization rate while choosing the best hours to supply heat from electricity or natural gas.
Energy bill optimization objective
Our algorithm and control system determines, on a daily basis, the best combination of electricity and natural gas to supply your heat and establishes the daily decarbonization rate of the site.
Am I eligible?
Use cases.
We operate on gas-fired, energy-intensive sites connected to the grid that aim to stabilize their energy costs or achieve decarbonization targets. Profitability depends on specific technical and pricing criteria.
Suitable profiles
- Site consumption > 30 GWh gas/year
- Gas price ≥ 45–50 €/MWh including taxes
- Thermal process up to 600 °C — dryer, kiln, autoclave, treatment bath
- Preferential connection to the HTB high-voltage transmission network (RTE)
Our equipment & services
- Custom electric boiler / burner (E-Boiler, E-Burner)
- Eco-Stock® — high-temperature thermal storage
- Smart regulation and control of heat supply
- Assessment, feasibility study, integration into existing process
What the offer includes
A turnkey scope, from diagnosis to commissioning.
Scope of the offer
Design and engineering of the solution, turnkey installation, commissioning, technical performance guarantee.
Financing
We help you identify and apply for available subsidies (CEE, ADEME & regional grants, up to 30-60% of the investment).
Typical project timeline
9 months
If no modification of the electrical transformer.
How much can your gas process save?
30 minutes with an expert to assess your eligibility for hybridization. If it is not cost-effective, we will tell you.