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Business Energy Census Highlights Rising Prices,
Volatility, and Shifting Strategies

HOUSTON – ENGIE North America (ENGIE), announced today, in collaboration with Energy Research Consulting Group (ERCG), the release of the 2025 North American Business Energy Census. This third annual report offers valuable market insights and opinions from over 100 aggregators, brokers, and consultants (ABCs), representing approximately 760,000 end-use customer locations.

“During uncertain times, our role as a retail energy supplier provides a critical link between supply and demand,” said Anne-Laure Chassanite, chief executive officer at ENGIE Resources. “Through our steadfast commitment to renewable energy and recognizing voice of customer, we navigate market volatility and help assure a sustainable and resilient future.”

Drawing insights from over 100 survey respondents, ENGIE’s Business Energy Census report highlights the evolving energy sector and the growing importance of strategic energy management for organizations of all sizes. Survey participants include a spectrum of energy management advisor roles with a diverse client base across commercial, industrial, and institutional sectors.


The 2025 Business Energy Census identifies several trends that indicate heightened volatility and uncertainty in the energy market, including:

  • Energy’s Strategic Role: A slight shift in priorities, with 10% of respondents reporting that energy had become less strategic among their end-user clients.

  • Forecast of Rising Prices and Volatility: Expectations of increased volatility in natural gas and power prices.

  • Green Premium Acceptance: A softening in demand for renewable energy with price premiums.

  • Strengthening Regulatory Support: Increasing awareness among ABCs regarding the need for more advocacy and efforts to improve regulatory frameworks.

  • Energy’s Impact on Mergers and Acquisitions: Intensification to secure reliable, affordable, and sustainable energy sources, setting the stage for strategic consolidations and investments.

  • Addressing Market Information Challenges: A slight decline in the perception of the availability of quality market information among ABCs.

Based on the 2025 Business Energy Census results, customers and partners can find observations that highlight the evolving complexities and strategic importance of energy management across diverse business sectors. The report underscores the need for agile and forward-thinking strategies to navigate increased volatility and geopolitical tensions and support the development and delivery of green energy solutions for power and gas customers.

As an affiliate of ENGIE North America, ENGIE Resources aims to deliver journey-specific insights from diverse firms across various geographical locations, revenue brackets, and business models.

Based in Boston, ERCG provides business intelligence and consulting services to energy market participants on entry strategies, investment opportunities, and market & policy dynamics. “Energy ABCs have a front row seat to the rapidly changing economic and political environment – and their impacts on end-use customers,” said Young Kim, Principal. “The annual Business Energy Census gives us a powerful tool to analyze year-over-year changes in sentiment. We are proud to partner with ENGIE Resources to keep our fingers on the pulse of the business community.”

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About ENGIE North America

Based in Houston, Texas, ENGIE North America Inc. is a regional hub of ENGIE, a major player in the energy transition, whose purpose is to accelerate the transition towards a carbon-neutral economy. With 98,000 employees in 30 countries, the Group covers the entire energy value chain, from production to infrastructures and sales. ENGIE combines complementary activities: renewable electricity and green gas production, flexibility assets (notably batteries), gas and electricity transmission and distribution networks, local energy infrastructures (heating and cooling networks) and the supply of energy to local authorities and businesses. Every year, ENGIE invests more than $10 billion to drive forward the energy transition and achieve its net zero carbon goal by 2045. ENGIE (ENGI), is listed on the Paris and Brussels Stock Exchanges.

For more information on ENGIE North America, please visit our LinkedIn page or Twitter feed, www.linkedin.com/company/engie-north-america-inc and twitter.com/ENGIENorthAm.

Media Contacts:

ENGIE North America: Michael Clingan, michael.clingan@external.engie.com, (832) 745-6057

Business highlights

  • Robust activity in Renewables & BESS, with 8.5 GW under construction across more than 100 projects at the end of March 2025
  • Acquisition of two hydropower plants in Brazil (612 MW) and a portfolio of Renewable assets in the United Kingdom (157 MW)
  • Award of a new electric substation in Chile
  • Closing of the nuclear transaction in Belgium

Financial performance

  • EBIT excluding nuclear at €3.7bn, an organic increase of 2.1%, mainly driven by Infrastructures and favorable timing effect
  • Cash Flow From Operations1 at €4.0bn in Q1 2025
  • Maintaining a solid balance sheet with an economic net debt/EBITDA ratio down to 3.0x
  • Economic net debt reduced by €1.8bn
  • FY 2025 guidance confirmed with NRIgs2 expected in a range of €4.4-5.0bn

 

For more information on the Q1 Results visit our global page >> https://www.engie.com/en/news/2025-first-quarter-results

ENGIE in the top 50! The Group lies in 46th place in the World’s Best Companies 2024 ranking published by Time magazine and Statista. What’s more, in France the Group is in the top 5.

Published by the American weekly magazine Time in partnership with Statista, a leading international provider of market and consumer data and rankings, the World’s Best Companies 2024 ranking evaluates the world’s 1,000 top performing companies according to three key criteria: employee satisfaction, revenue growth and sustainability performance (ESG criteria).

ENGIE stands out this year, ranking 46th worldwide, compared with 57th place last year. This improvement is largely due to the growth rate of the company, reflecting its ability to innovate and to adapt in a constantly changing sector.

In France, ENGIE has climbed to 5th place, in particular thanks to its Net Promoter Score (NPS), an indicator that measures overall positive customer and employee perception of the company.

This good score illustrates the Group’s commitment to providing a caring and inclusive working environment as well as its social model which reconciles economic performance with a positive impact on people and the planet.

BKV and ENGIE will collaborate on the sale and purchase of natural gas and associated Carbon Sequestered Credits, a new measured, third-party verified, carbon sequestered product. This innovative arrangement brings together two industry leaders dedicated to addressing climate change.  

BKV will deliver ENGIE physical natural gas, as well as an equivalent amount of gas tokens that represent the environmental attributes associated with both responsibly sourced gas (RSG) production and capturing carbon dioxide from the gas stream and injecting it into a permitted facility owned by BKV. The CO2 sequestration project underpinning this transaction is BKV’s Barnett Zero project, located in Bridgeport, Texas. The CO2 capture and sequestration will be third-party certified.  

We are proud to work with BKV in its development of innovative, differentiated gas products that are key to ensuring the role that natural gas can play as part of the energy transition. This transaction is representative of our commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to limit the environmental impact of its activities. Additionally, Carbon-Sequestered Gas represents an opportunity for end-users to purchase measured and verified differentiated natural gas that is certified and registered using blockchain technology. We believe this level of transparency and trust is critical for the energy transition.  

To see the full press release, go to >> https://bkv.com/news/bkv-engie-press-release-carbon-sequestered-gas

A major step towards ENGIE’s objective of reaching 10 GW of battery capacity within
the Group by 2030 to support the development of renewable energies

ENGIE announces it has signed a binding agreement for the acquisition of 100% of Broad Reach
Power, a company specialized in battery storage and based in Houston, from private equity funds
EnCap and Apollo.


The transaction involves 350MW of operating assets, as well as 880MW under construction
assets with a commissioning expected before the end of 2024, 1.7GW of advanced stage projects
and a significant pipeline of early stage projects. The projects are located in Texas, California and
the central states of the United States. Broad Reach Power skills, tools and teams are the perfect
fit, in and outside the United States, with ENGIE’s integrated model.


The acquisition will support the Group’s goal of having 10 GW of battery capacity globally by
2030. It will also strengthen ENGIE’s position as a leader in the energy transition in the United
States, where the group already has significant positions through its renewable assets (5GW in
operation at the end of 2022), battery storage and its energy management platform. The
development of these projects will respond to the strong need for flexibility generated by the
growth of the share of renewable energies in the energy mix and will increase ENGIE capacity to
provide 24/7 decarbonized electricity to his customers.


Completion of the transaction is expected by Q4 2023, subject to the fulfilment of certain
approvals from anti-trust and energy regulatory authorities.


For Catherine MacGregor, Chief Executive Officer of ENGIE: “This acquisition is fully in line
with ENGIE’s strategy: it will contribute to the development of a low-carbon, affordable and
resilient energy system where flexible assets will play a critical role alongside renewables.”


About ENGIE
ENGIE is a leading global group in low-carbon energy and services. With its 96,000 employees, its
customers, its partners and its stakeholders, the Group is committed every day to accelerating the transition
to a carbon-neutral world, thanks to more energy-efficient and more environmentally-friendly solutions.
Guided by its purpose, ENGIE reconciles economic performance and positive impact on people and the
planet by relying on its key businesses (gas, renewable energies, services) to offer competitive solutions to
its customers.

Turnover in 2022: 93.9 billion euros. Listed in Paris and Brussels (ENGI), the Group is represented in the
main financial (CAC 40, Euronext 100, FTSE Euro 100, MSCI Europe) and extra-financial (DJSI World,
Euronext Vigeo Eiris – Europe 120 / France 20, MSCI EMU ESG screened, MSCI EUROPE ESG Universal
Select, Stoxx Europe 600 ESG-X) indices.

 

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