Visit of a Shanghai delegation to ENGIE in Paris
30/06/2017News
The first purpose of the visit was the signature of an agreement preparing the creation of a joint venture between ENGIE China and Shanghai Gas Group to operate a Training & Innovation Centre in Shanghai. ENGIE China will have a 30% share in this future company.
The Shanghai Centre aims at providing skilled and competent workers with a focus on gas distribution in the ramp-up phase, and at contributing to the continuous knowledge enhancement of the managers of energy companies. It is inspired by both the GRDF / ENERGY Formation centre of Nantes-Montluc and the ENGIE University model.
GRDF provided assistance to this project through two Technical Services Agreements in 2016 and in 2017(ongoing). These Technical Services Agreements include the assistance to the conceptual design of the Shanghai Training Centre, the elaboration of sets of training courses and the training in France of SGG trainers.
The agreement was signed by Wang Zhehong, the chairman of SGG, and Pierre Deheunynck, EVP Human Resources, who represented Didier Holleaux, chairman of ENGIE China Investment Company, the vehicle bearing the investment of China BU.
The signing ceremony took place in the presence of Edouard Sauvage, CEO of GRDF, and Nicolas Rolland, Director of ENGIE University.
Pierre Deheunynck declared: “This project is an opportunity to make ENGIE’s brand shine, maintain its high reputation of professionalism in energy and especially gas matters in China, in the internationally well reputed academic city of Shanghai.”
The next steps of the project encompass the negotiation of the JV contract and associated agreements, as well as the construction of the facilities of the Training & Innovation Centre, for a commercial operation expected to start in 2019.
The second purpose of the visit was an exchange between the Global Energy Management (GEM) BU and the Shanghai delegation about trading activities, this activity being promoted by the Chinese authorities in the framework of the ongoing opening of energy and carbon markets…
The delegation had the possibility to visit ENGIE’s ‘trading platform’ and to exchange with Edouard Neviaski, CEO of GEM, and his team about the BU’s activities and more specifically about the experience of ENGIE in energy markets liberalization that could represent a good argument for further cooperation between Shenergy and GEM in China.
Finally, the Shanghai delegation visited the Research& Development Center of CRIGEN in Saint-Denis in order to have an overview of gas and energy developments and to discuss further partnership in technologies.
About Shanghai and Shenergy
Shanghai Gas Group (SGG) is a subsidiary of the SHENERGY (Group) Company, a major investor and developer of energy infrastructure, a major supplier of power, gas and energy services in Shanghai.
SGG has built a 600-km high-pressure grid and over 20,000-km mid-/low-pressure grids, covering all Shanghai districts. It delivers gas to 6.2 million customers, accounting for 90% of the Shanghai market share. Annual gas sales amount to more than 7 bcm. SGG employs 8,700 employees, including ~5,100 gas technicians.
SGG is planning to set up a gas-related training and innovation centre (TIC) at the site of its decommissioned subsidiary Pudong Coal Manufactured Gas. According to its conceptual design, the training facilities will cover 11 old buildings with a construction area of approximately 10,000 sqm.