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Company history

Key Dates :

2003 : 4 engineers (Grenoble INP University) decided to create an energy specialized company.
2003 : Grenoble Alpes Incubation center
2004 : H3C-énergies creation.
2005 : First large scale project: Lyon Saint Exupéry airport.
2006 : Institutional involvement (member of the Tenerrdis competitiveness cluster).
2007 : Important recruitment (from 6 to 16 employees).
2008 : 25 employees, national and key projects. (French National Library energy audit, Cherbourg Navy Ship Yard, 40 high school buildings in the Alsace region ...).
2009 : Growth to 50 employees, opening of premises in Paris and first international operations. Quality certification and carbon compensation involvement.
Current number of employees : 70

Company presentation

Tasks carried out by H3c-énergies:

- Energy auditing
- Carbon footprint estimations
- Renewable and new energy systems feasibility studies (solar thermal and photovoltaic, wood energy, combined heat and power...)
- Assistance for setting up and monitoring of operation and maintenance contracts.
- Assistance for High Environmental Quality projects (HQE) for existing and new buildings.
- Economical and contractual assessments for optimization of energy supply contracts.

Three main objectives for our customers:

- Reduced energy consumption
- Optimized energy consumption
- Clean energy consumption

The cheapest and less polluting energy is the one we do not consume! This is the first need for sustainable development.

10 Main References

- Energy audit and dynamic thermal behavior simulation of the French National Library (300 000 m2) - Paris
- Energy audit of 40 buildings (140 000 m2) : Cherbourg Navy Ship Yard
- 40 high school buildings in the Alsace region: energy audits
- Angers conurbation : Energy audit of 30 public buildings
- Energy audit and dynamic thermal behavior simulation of the Bouches-du-Rhône General council building (88 000 m2) - Marseille
- Villeurbanne city : Overall Energy audit (200 buildings, 200 000 m2)
- Versailles Saint-Quentin University energy audit.
- Aix-Marseille academy - Student accommodation office : Energy purchasing management, Energy consumptions management measures scheduling, Assistance to the realization of the energy directing scheme.
- Voiron Hospital: Leadership for a high environmental quality project, aiming at building a new hospital, from project examination to monitoring.
- Lyon Saint Exupéry Airport : Overall Energy audit for secondary installations and high/low voltage equipments

Values :

- Independence
- Customer satisfaction
- Employees' fulfillment
- Quality
- Dialogue
- Innovation
- Entrepreneurship
- Sustainable development

Energies in the lead with H3C

« The highest level of customers' satisfaction, accomplishment and fulfillment for our employees are the challenges that our company project has taken.
Our strategy is clear: to help our customers to improve their energy efficiency while keeping good comfort conditions and making economic and environmental savings.
The cheapest and less polluting energy is the one we do not consume! This is the first need for sustainable development.
Our view of energy efficiency and our actions are oriented « overall cost », in order to take into account, not only the first investment, but also the complete life cycle of the products, the global resulting costs, as maintenance and running ones.
By our added value and the commitment of our engineers and technicians, we gain our customers' loyalties: