Idex heating networks
Idex, founded in 1970 and headed by Thierry Franck de Preaumont, is an independent French group in the energy services and environment sector. The company works with local authorities, industry professionals and healthcare, residential and commercial sectors as well as with the state to optimize the energy efficiency of facilities and help better manage energy consumption. Idex is the first French group to have been awarded the ISO 50001 (energy management) certificate. The Cube Infrastructure group has owned 100% of the shares in Idex since 2011.
Solutions
Energy services
Idex is responsible for managing its customers’ thermal installations in buildings. This can involve controlling, maintaining, supplying or optimizing its customers’ equipment.
Energy and environmental performance of buildings
Idex’s clients can enjoy the services of a buildings management expert group: from the choice of energy to the optimization of production equipment, Idex accompanies all its customers in their efforts to create responsible buildings by limiting their environmental impact and costs.
Multiservice and multi-technical
Idex offers to take care of all aspects of facility management for its customers’ buildings, including reception, security, green spaces, networks, elevators, etc.
Air conditioning Installations
Idex provides its clients with expertise in the installation of air conditioning systems, carrying out all the necessary work, including renovation, in the areas of HVAC, plumbing, the production and distribution of fluids and electricity.
Making use of local resources
Idex helps communities carry out their long-term energy transition projects by using locally sourced forms of energy production such as biomass, biogas, anaerobic digesttion, geothermal energy etc.
Incidentally, IDEX operates 50 district heating and cooling networks across France, including the heating and cooling network that supplies la Defense in Paris. This solution combines the benefits of comfort, cost control, sustainable development and thus has a low environmental impact.
In waste recovery, Idex manages 9 incineration and anaerobic digestion plants, and is involved in every step of the process in the treatment and energy recovery of waste in its plants.
In addition to its expertise in the area of biomass with 50 wood boilers, 15 biogas projects under development or in operation and more than twenty years’ experience in operating geothermal power plants, Idex Group is also a pioneer in the area of wind energy with skills ranging from the development and construction of wind farms right through to monitoring the wind farm’s operation and performance after construction.
Idex in numbers
Over the last twenty years, Idex has developed strongly. Some of the company’s key figures to remember are the following:
• 3600 people employed in France
• 686-million-euro turnover in 2014
• 11,000 energy facilities managed
• 11 regional entities and 100 agencies in France
• 50 heating and cooling networks managed
• 1600 MW of thermal equipment installed each year
Subsidiaries
Idex has several subsidiaries:
• The ESRF group, specializing in issues of energy efficiency
• Idex Environment, an expert in operating solutions to waste treatment unit
• Save energy, natural gas supplier of various types of customers
• Must, maintenance and troubleshooting specialist domestic equipment
• Multidex, founded in 2014, and facilities management specialist