Agri-food sector
Agri-food manufacturers, secure your energy
Steam for dairies, cooling for meat chilling in slaughterhouses, tunnel ovens for industrial bakeries, bottling lines, and autoclaves for canneries: every business combines gas and electricity in its own way. Sirenergies supports you in purchasing both of these energy sources, adjusts your distribution costs, and monitors each site in Pilott.
Key figures for your sector
Gas for heat, electricity for cooling: the two bills of the agri-food industry
Steam, hot water, and cooking on one side; cooling and production lines on the other: every site pays for two energy sources, which a purchasing strategy must address together.
Share of natural gas in the gross energy consumption of agri-food industries.
Maximum share of electricity at a meat industry site used for cooling.
Increase in the agri-food industry's energy bill in 2023.
Our goals and your challenges
Gas and electricity: how energy impacts your agri-food margins
supporting dairies, slaughterhouses and cutting plants, industrial bakeries, bottling sites, and canneries with an expense that weighs on their margins: energy. We analyze your gas and electricity contracts, prepare the competitive bidding process for suppliers with you, review your distribution costs and excise duties, and then monitor each site in Pilott. Refrigeration specialists, heating engineers, and design offices remain your technical partners; you remain the buyer, and we advise you at every step.
Agri-food industries consume approximately 5 million tonnes of oil equivalent per year(decarbonization roadmap for the agri-food industry, September 2023). Gas produces the heat: steam for dairies, hot water for slaughterhouses, autoclaves for canneries, and burners for bakery ovens. Electricity powers the cooling, compressed air, blow-molding machines, and packaging lines. Both of these energy sources remain more expensive than in 2019, often on thin margins. Sirenergies, a consultant in contractual strategy and energy data management, helps manufacturers buy at the right time, pay the correct amount for network costs, and link every expense to their production.
Sector challenges
The three most critical energy challenges for the food industry
Dairies, slaughterhouses, bakeries, beverage producers, and canneries: three issues recur across these different sectors.
Managing thermal requirements
Dairies, slaughterhouses, cutting plants, and freezing facilities run their refrigeration systems day and night, while simultaneously heating water for pasteurization, scalding, or cleaning. Sirenergies analyzes the contracts and subscribed power levels associated with these two needs, without interfering with temperature settings, which remain under the control of your teams.
Multi-energy and waste heat
Industrial bakery tunnel ovens, canning thermal processes, and dairy pasteurization: many sites combine gas and electricity for the same equipment and release underutilized heat. Sirenergies supports you in the joint procurement of these two energy sources and calculates the potential for heat recovery before any investment is made.
Underutilized seasonality and demand response
Ice cream, canning, and frozen food production are highly seasonal, while the thermal inertia of cold storage rooms offers demand response potential, as studied by ADEME for frozen food warehouses. Sirenergies adapts your contracts to this rhythm, evaluates this flexibility, and identifies the service provider capable of monetizing it.
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Our case studies
In the first year, we saved almost 20% compared to the initial budget of the new contract. In theory, we had a budget of €600,000 with the new contract, and thanks to the optimization, we went down to €450,000 in electricity costs, all inclusive.
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The Sirenergies advantage
Energy consulting for the food industry by Sirenergies
For a food industry manufacturer, energy consulting means linking two bills—the gas used for heat and the electricity used for cooling—to the actual pace of production. Sirenergies achieves this through its consultants and its Pilott platform: contract analysis, procurement support, optimization of distribution fees and excise taxes, and site-by-site consumption monitoring.
The context
Between 2019 and 2024, the average price of a tonne of oil equivalent paid by the food industry increased by a factor of 1.9, compared to 1.3 in the chemical industry (Insee Première No. 2095, February 2026).
Levers by sector
- Dairy industry: daily gas capacity for the boiler room and cost analysis for steam electrification.
- Slaughtering and cutting: subscribed power levels aligned with chilling cycles and slaughter days.
- Industrial bakery: balancing fixed versus indexed pricing for oven gas, and calculated heat recovery.
- Beverages: pricing schedule prepared before the high season.
- Canning and frozen foods: coverage secured before harvest, cold storage flexibility assessed.
What Sirenergies does for all sites
Joint gas and electricity procurement, review of distribution costs, TURPE (public electricity network usage tariff) and ATRD (third-party access to gas distribution networks), annual audit of electricity excise duties (formerly TICFE) and natural gas excise duties (formerly TICGN), followed by D+1 monitoring in Pilott.
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Les réponses à vos questions
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Non, jamais. Nous n'intervenons jamais sur vos paramètres de température réglementés ; notre action porte exclusivement sur votre contrat d'énergie et son pilotage.
Si votre entreprise dépasse les seuils réglementaires (effectifs, chiffre d'affaires ou bilan), elle peut être soumise à l'obligation d'audit énergétique.
Sirenergies n'est pas accrédité pour réaliser cet audit réglementaire : nous vous orientons vers des bureaux d'études partenaires de confiance et vous accompagnons en amont sur l'optimisation de vos contrats, puis en aval sur la mise en œuvre du plan d'action côté achats et pilotage.
Le diagnostic initial prend quelques semaines. Pour un effet dès la prochaine campagne, nous recommandons de l'engager avant le printemps précédant la récolte.
Non. Sirenergies est indépendant des fournisseurs d'énergie : nous pouvons intervenir sur vos contrats existants et ne vous orientons vers une mise en concurrence que si elle est dans votre intérêt.
