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## **Beneo Orafti enhances turbine performance with Veolia**
The Oreye site of Beneo Orafti has decided to participate in the new market of the Belgian secondary reserve (aFRR) with its gas turbine, thanks to Veolia's expertise through its Flexcity offer.
While creating a new revenue stream, this participation takes into account the site process to avoid any impacts on its activity.
| **Valorized asset** • Gas turbine **Services provided by Flexcity offer** *aFRR (R2 or secondary reserve)* ***Location*** *Oreye, Belgium* ***Start of the partnership*** *2020* |
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## **Customer Challenge**
**Beneo Orafti: an ambitious company**
**Beneo, part of the Südzucker group, produces functional ingredients principally dedicated to the agri-food industry.**
The Beneo Oreye site is engaged in a long-term energy efficiency program. Their main target is being carbon neutral by 2050 and they have already achieved to reduce their CO² emissions by 40% since 2010. This engagement also led to an investment in a new gas turbine and a heat recovery boiler: they enable the electrical autonomy of the site and even the export of a part of its electrical power into the grid.
**The valorization consists of participation in the secondary reserve of the Belgian electrical grid, usually called aFRR or R2. The aFRR enables the balancing between the electrical supply and demand on the grid in case of electricity shortages but also of electricity surplus.**
Thanks to Veolia’s technology and market expertise, the Beneo Oreye gas turbine can be activated several times in a day to produce less electricity for a few minutes. These activations help to relieve the electrical grid in case of electricity surplus and happen only when the turbine is available to produce less. The modern system of the heat recovery boiler also plays a role by offsetting the electricity production loss and avoiding any impact on the industrial process.
Veolia, through its Flexcity offer, remunerates Beneo for making its own installation available for the needs of the electrical grid. The Oreye site benefits from a new revenue stream and could dedicate it to its energy efficiency program, for instance.
## **Solution**
**In this context of energy efforts, the innovative solutions of Veolia, optimize the Beneo Oreye electric installations and enable them to participate in supporting the Belgian and European electric grid. From Veolia’s analysis and thanks to its modularity, the gas turbine fulfilled the different criteria to be valorized by electrical flexibility services without impacting on the site process.**
|  **Guillaume Poncelet** *Power Plant Engineer Beneo* | > ***When we invested in the new gas turbine, we naturally thought how to improve its profitability by participating in flexibility services.*** |
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**Beneo Orafti benefits from different aspects by participating in Veolia's services:**
- **Optimization of the gas turbine**: Veolia, through its Flexcity offer, analyzes the availability of the turbine to make it flexible.
- **Creation of new revenues**.
- **Supplementary action** added to Beneo's energy efficiency program.
- **Participation in the Belgian and European balancing** of the electrical grid.
- **Support for the energy transition** and inclusion of renewables.
Thus, Veolia's Flexcity offer proposes to Beneo Orafti Oreye a new solution to reduce their energy costs, and they now join forces to create the electrical grids of tomorrow.
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**Benefits**
|  **Guillaume Poncelet** *Power Plant Engineer Beneo* | > ***Veolia's, through its Flexcity offer, has shown a keen interest and has been proactive to assist us for our first steps in the aFRR market.*** |
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## **Working with Veolia**
Our Flexcity offer helps energy-intensive companies turn existing infrastructure into new value - optimizing flexible capacity across ancillary services, imbalance markets, and more. Whether you're in industry, agriculture, or logistics, we make flexibility work without complexity.
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