Responding to the mining sector downturn and the challenges facing the power industry, the Veolia Group has launched a new plug-in offering that can reduce both the environment footprint and operational costs.
The company has integrated traditional water, waste and energy services to create a single plug-in solution.
The Veolia Group's spokesperson for Integrated by Design, Rod Naylor, said a number of industry sectors are feeling intense pressure to reduce their unit production costs while also improving safety, environmental control and quality.
“As a result Veolia has had to look deeply at our current environmental offering and see where we can work more closely with these businesses to integrate their water, waste and energy needs in the form of one simple integrated solution,” he said.
The solution has been designed to mimic the natural interconnectedness between water, waste and energy as it exists in nature.
“Many organisations still manage water, waste and energy in operational silos across the company,” Naylore said.
“Finding these synergies and places of integration in water, waste and energy is often a new approach for many organisations, especially when their business is not designed to identify and capitalise on these connections.
“The market is still very much in the early stages of understanding and pursuing the potential that comes from integrated solutions.”
In the oil and gas sector where integrated water management, environmental stewardship and the recovery of resources is critical in south-east Queensland, Veolia has managed to move beyond simple transactional management.
“One client reduced upstream production costs by up to 15 per cent while maintaining service level standards - it is joint value creation,” he said.
Veolia is also focusing on smart cities and municipal markets, healthcare and food and beverage sectors which face similar challenges across their core operations, particularly when it comes to high sustainable performance.”