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Ben Moens is a managing director at ENGIE Impact, a global independent entity of the world energy actor ENGIE, focused on helping its clients achieve greenhouse gas emission reduction at larger scale and higher pace. While ultimately its clients set the ambition, decide for action, drive leadership and sustain transformation efforts, ENGIE Impact makes a difference and accelerates its clients’ transition to net zero in 3 ways. Firstly, ENGIE Impact plays the role of solution integrator in an increasingly complex ecosystem of new energy technology and supply options, which typically fall outside the core business or capabilities of its clients. In this role ENGIE Impact mobilizes equipment vendors and implementation service providers, supports new technology development, ensures multi-technology solution concepts that minimize total cost of ownership and risk, and accelerates the full implementation life cycle.
Secondly, ENGIE Impact lowers economic hurdles for the transition by valorising synergies between solutions, driving economies of scale and reducing transaction costs through multi-site programs,mobilizing longer term third party financing at lower cost of capital, optimizing risk allocation through fit-for-purpose contracting, and capturing green premiums across supply chains. Examples are enterprise-wide, multi-county, multi-site, zero CAPEX, off-balance-sheet energy performance or energy-as-a-service contracts. Thirdly, ENGIE Impact removes barriers to action by adapting its clients’ governance & policies to a net zero paradigm, driving organizational change, building leadership skills, fostering capabilities, revamping ways of working across value chains, and facilitating change. Since ENGIE Impact’s creation in 2019 Ben has been instrumental in shaping its business and operating model
to enable this new, innovative facilitator role for the energy transition. He has partnered with several multinationals in the steel, materials, chemicals, food & beverage, consumer products, and manufacturing sectors. Despite initial successes and progress, he advocates wider mobilization, more disruptive change, and more collective action to remain on track for 2030 and beyond, enabled by fundamental market forces.
