ENEA Consulting

ENEA Consulting has been created around a hybrid business model, responsible and committed. By placing its skills volunteering at the heart of its business strategy, ENEA Consulting combines economic performance and social investment by creating an innovative business model, successful and meaningful.

This strategy and this constant desire to maximise its social impact enable ENEA Consulting to finance pro bono consulting assignments based on 20% of the working time of each employee, so as to assist civil society organisations willing to improve energy access (which represents around 50% of profits reinvested since its inception date).

Through this unique business model, ENEA Consulting interacts with both public and private stakeholders, in order to address the issue of energy access.

ENEA Consulting’s projects selection is consistent with its strategy and skills

ENEA Consulting selects projects requiring its expertise on energy issues. By providing strategy as well as technical expertise, ENEA Consulting leverages its know-how and optimizes the efficiency of its skills transfer to civil society organizations. The projects performed through this volunteering activity are a unique way to further develop a network, to increase knowledge and to rely on innovative ideas. This thus creates a unique added value to its consulting customers.

Leverage optimisation and sustainability focus

ENEA Consulting decided to assist clean energy access projects, with the aim to contribute to the poverty and climate change impacts reduction. We are strongly convinced that our effort must be focused on sustainable projects, with a significant positive social impact. ENEA Consulting provides consulting and support on energy access projects but does not intend to be a substitute for local actors, civil society organizations or donors. ENEA Consulting does not participate in projects that are already funded by major organisations, nor that can be performed by local companies.

Promoting multi-stakeholder projects and open diffusion

ENEA Consulting produces “Open Ideas” studies dealing with development issues, useful to all actors on the field. Generally speaking, ENEA Consulting tries to gather actors that are following the same development goal in order to enlarge its impact. ENEA Consulting has adopted a policy of free dissemination of its deliverables under Creative Commons license, in order to bring knowledge and know-how to those that are fighting energy access discrimination. Consult our publications on Development

Qualification of partners and projects

ENEA Consulting evaluates synergies, governance modalities, funding origins, visibility, capacity to deploy successful project during its evaluation process of a potential partner. Similarly, before intervening on a project, ENEA Consulting evaluates its social and environmental impact, its relevance, the viability of the implemented solution, its capacity to replicate and its feasibility to scale up.

Management and system of time credit

Volunteering is entirely financed by ENEA Consulting profit (excluding travel expenses, paid by the partner) and is part each employee’s mission. Every consultant has a time credit of 2 months per year which enables him to transfer his expertise to civil society organizations (NGOs, social businesses, social entrepreneurs …). Volunteering projects are a key component of a consultant’s performance evaluation, just like any consulting project.

Transparency and reporting

ENEA Consulting provides annual reporting on its volunteering activity, through the yearly publication of its Solidarity journal, which contains the description of every project within the year. The transparency of this activity is complete and communicated to all stakeholders of the company. Learn more about our projetcs