energ'invest
Energinvest is a Brussels-based consulting firm specializing in energy efficiency advisory, Energy Performance Contracting (EPC), ESCO business model design, and innovative financing for public and private building owners across Belgium, France, and select international markets.
- Company typePrivate
- Founded1984
- HeadquartersBrussels, Belgium
- Headcount1–10
- GTM typeB2B
- OfferingServices
What energ'invest does
Energinvest is a privately-held strategic, financial, and operational consulting firm headquartered in Brussels (107 rue Joseph Coosemans, Schaarbeek) with a secondary presence in France, founded approximately in 1984 and operating for over 40 years. The firm specializes in energy efficiency consulting for public and private clients, with deep expertise in Energy Performance Contracting (EPC), Energy Public-Private Partnerships (EPPP), and Third Party Financing (TPF) mechanisms, including assistance in designing, implementing, evaluating, and funding energy efficiency investment programs and ESCO business models. Its service portfolio centers on three proprietary methodologies — smartEPC, smartBPM, and smartIFP — supported by a suite of standardized tools such as Smart Matrix, Smart Cost Model, Smart EPC Toolbox, Smart IFP Toolkit, Smart Energy Data, C.M.C. & B-Infodoc, Comfortmeter, and Building Condition Assessment, several of which were co-developed with public agencies (Fedesco) and partner consultancies (3E).
Energinvest operates as a senior-partner-led boutique consultancy with approximately 1-10 employees organized around four named partners: Miguel Casas (Senior Partner, financial consulting), Jean-Francois Marchand (Partner, Business Manager of BELESCO), Lieven Vanstraelen (Partner, former CEO of Fedesco, President of BELESCO's board), and Henri Mardegan (Partner, based in France, ex-Johnson Controls, ACCOR, ICADE). The firm generates revenue exclusively through professional services — strategic positioning studies, financial engineering, project facilitation, training, and workshops — sold via direct consulting engagements on Belgian, French, and international markets. Go-to-market is sales-led, with senior partners personally acquiring and delivering work; marketing is largely content-driven through the firm website, research reports, and participation in EU-funded projects such as CITYnvest (Horizon2020) and StepUP (Horizon2020).
The firm's competitive position rests on decades of accumulated expertise, its founding role in BELESCO (the Belgian ESCO association), its structural operation of the Fedesco Knowledgecenter since 2009, and a track record of facilitating large-scale energy programs — including an 18 million euro retrofit program for Leuven KlimaatNeutraal, 70+ million euros of expected investment commitments through CITYnvest pilot regions, and 31% guaranteed energy savings on the Fedimmo federal building portfolio. Customer concentration is spread across Belgian federal and municipal authorities, French public and private institutions, EU consortia, and selected international engagements in Morocco, Saudi Arabia, and the Netherlands, although the small headcount implies that individual engagements materially affect annual revenue.
energ'invest firmographics
Firmographics- Name
- energ'invest
- Legal name
- Energinvest
- Website
- https://energinvest.be
- Company type
- Private
- Founded year
- 1984
- Operating status
- Operating
- Headcount range
- 1–10 employees
- Short description
- Energinvest is a Brussels-based consulting firm specializing in energy efficiency advisory, Energy Performance Contracting (EPC), ESCO business model design, and innovative financing for public and private building owners across Belgium, France, and select international markets.
- Ownership category
- akta.pro rank
energ'invest industry classification
Industry- Product category
- Energy Efficiency Consulting
- NAICS
- Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services (5416), Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services (5413)
- SIC
- Services-Management Consulting Services (8742), Services-Engineering, Accounting, Research, Management (8700)
- akta.pro primary industry
- EHS Management Systems & ISO Consulting (ISO 14001/45001) (BPAHAJAF)
- akta.pro secondary industry
- EHS Auditing, Inspections & Assurance (BPAHAJAG)
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Where energ'invest is headquartered
LocationHeadquarters
- HQ city
- Brussels
- HQ country
- Belgium
- HQ region
- Europe
Offices1 record
Markets served
energ'invest business model
Business model- GTM type
- B2B
- Offering type
- Services
- Cost components
- Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure
Revenue model
- Strategic and Financial Consulting: Consulting services including strategic positioning studies, study and modelling of technical and financial support of EPC contracts, PPP's, multi-year investment plans, operational and/or financial ESCO's/TPF's, investment funds in energy efficiency and renewables.
- Project Facilitation Services: Assistance in project management and support in the implementation of EPC contracts, PPP's, multi-year investment plans, and energy efficiency projects.
- Training and Workshops: Masterclasses on EPC and financial aspects, strategic workshops for customers, ESCOs, project partners and stakeholders.
Go-to-market motion1 record
Distribution channels1 record
Marketing channels5 records
energ'invest product offering
Product offeringCore offering
Energinvest is a strategic, financial and operational consulting firm that designs, implements, evaluates and funds investment programs and energy efficiency projects for private and public clients. The firm provides expertise in third-party financing mechanisms, energy performance contracting (EPC), energy public-private partnerships (EPPP), and third-party investment (TPI) models, delivered through three flagship consulting methodologies (smartEPC, smartBPM, smartIFP) and supported by a suite of proprietary assessment, audit and benchmarking tools.
Product overview
Energinvest offers a portfolio of consulting services and proprietary methodologies for energy efficiency and performance-based contracting. Their core offerings include three interconnected service lines: smartEPC (Smart Energy Performance Contracting) for comprehensive performance contracting including energy, comfort, maintenance, and building value; smartBPM (Smart Building Performance Management) for ongoing building performance management; and smartIFP (Smart Innovative Financing Program) for developing financing schemes for large-scale energy programs. These are supported by a suite of proprietary tools including Smart Energy Data, Smart Matrix, Smart Cost Model, Smart EPC Toolbox, Smart IFP Toolkit, C.M.C. & B-Infodoc, Comfortmeter, and Building Condition Assessment. The company also provides expertise services in Performance and Cost-Optimality Analysis, Competitive Performance-based Contracting, and Innovative Business and Financing Models.
Differentiator
Problem solved
Functional benefit
Products and services
- Smart Energy Performance Contracting (smartEPC) Consulting service delivering an innovative model for energy, comfort, maintenance, building value and third-party building certification performance contracting. Addresses multi-tenant, multi-owner, multi-building configurations within single EPC contracts for public and private clients seeking guaranteed performance outcomes.
- Smart Building Performance Management (smartBPM) Consulting service providing customers with a cost-optimal and performance-based energy, maintenance, comfort, building value and certification management system. Includes benchmarking, operations budgeting, capital planning, and scenarios analysis for large property owners and managers.
- Smart Innovative Financing Program (smartIFP) Consulting service delivering an integrated approach to develop operational and financing solutions for the implementation of ambitious sustainable energy efficiency plans. Includes strategic analysis, business plan development, funding vehicle implementation, and program delivery unit implementation for public authorities and large property owners.
- EPC Project Facilitation and Management Assistance Consulting service providing project management assistance and implementation support for EPC contracts, public-private partnerships, multi-year investment plans, and ESCO/TPF projects across public and private clients.
- EPC and Energy Financing Training (Masterclasses and Workshops) Training services delivered as masterclasses on EPC and financial aspects, plus strategic workshops for customers, ESCOs, project partners and stakeholders on energy efficiency, third-party financing, and innovative financing models.
- Building Condition Assessment Service (NEN 2767) Independent assessment of building condition based on the Dutch NEN 2767 standard, providing condition scores and long-term maintenance forecasts for property owners and managers.
- Smart Energy Data Platform Data acquisition IT platform enabling import of energy consumption data directly from electricity and gas network operators, providing real-time monitoring capabilities for clients' building portfolios across Belgium.
- Smart Matrix Benchmarking Tool Simplified energy audit model co-developed with consulting firm 3E, standardized and integrated in Excel to enable large-scale evaluation of investment programs in Energy Conservation Measures (ECMs) in buildings.
- Smart Cost Model Financial Simulation Tool Financial tool for simulation of investment programs in energy efficiency and renewable energy across large building stock and/or infrastructures, with an advanced version that simulates funding vehicle dimensioning.
- Smart EPC Toolbox Set of standardized procurement and contracting documents, tools, and guidance materials developed in collaboration with Fedesco for the preparation, tendering and management of EPC and DB(F)M(O) contracts.
- C.M.C. & B-Infodoc (NEN 2767 Condition Assessment Software) Scalable software for encoding detailed inventory of technical installations in buildings and generating interactive results and condition assessments according to the Dutch NEN 2767 standard.
- Comfortmeter Survey Tool European web-based subjective comfort survey tool developed with European universities, polling comfort experience of employees through 35 questions related to temperature, sound and air quality.
Quantifiable outcome
- 31% guaranteed energy savings with -2.7% total cost of occupancy reduction achieved for Fedimmo project (13 federal buildings)
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Companies that use energ'invest
Customer profileNamed customers18 records
Segments5 records
Ideal customer profiles4 records
energ'invest technology and API
TechnologyTechnology focussed No
API detail
- Has API
- No
- API docs
- API detail
Core technology
AI maturity
App detail
Feature9 records
energ'invest partnerships and signals
Strategic signalPartnerships
Twelve partnerships are on record, tiered major, core and minor.
- StepUP Project ConsortiummajorHorizon2020 project where Energinvest is consortium partner. Project focuses on innovative methodologies, digital tools, and plug-and-play technologies for deep energy renovation. Partners include IES, Eurecat, MANNI Group, ISOPAN, ABUD, Construcciones ACR, HeatVentors, and Municipality of 18th District of Budapest.
- BELESCO (Belgian ESCO Association)coreEnerginvest is founding member and manager of BELESCO, the Belgian ESCO association. The company engages with major players to stimulate the development of the energy services market and the use of Energy Performance Contracting and public-private partnerships.
- Fedesco KnowledgecentercoreEnerginvest served as structural operator of the Fedesco Knowledgecenter since 2009, the Belgian competence centre for Energy Services and Third Party Financing offering EPC/EPPP/TPI consulting and facilitation services to local public authorities.
- Fedesco (Federal Energy Services Company)coreEnerginvest assisted Fedesco, the Belgian Federal Energy Services Company (Super ESCO), since 2009 in implementation of EPC investment plan within Belgian federal buildings stock, developing smartEPC methodology and standard contract models.
- CITYnvest ConsortiumcoreHorizon2020 project where Energinvest serves as work package leader for analysis of innovative financing schemes. Partner consortium includes Climate Alliance, CEMR, SEC (Bulgaria), InfoMurcia (Spain), GRE-Liège (Belgium), and REScoop.
- Climate AlliancemajorEuropean partner in CITYnvest Horizon2020 project, representing local and regional authorities with CITYnvest expertise reaching over 130,000 local governments.
- Council of European Municipalities and Regions (CEMR)majorEuropean partner in CITYnvest project, providing reach to local and regional authorities across Europe.
- REScoopminorCooperative models expert in CITYnvest consortium, contributing expertise in energy efficiency cooperative financing models.
- Smart Cities Information SystemminorCITYnvest team published guest blog post on Smart Cities Information System platform explaining origins and approach of the project.
- International Energy Agency (IEA)minorEnerginvest expert is member of group of experts of program DSMIV Task 16 of International Energy Agency on 'Competitive energy services'.
- European Energy Services Initiative (EESI)minorEnerginvest was an expert in the European Energy Services Initiative project.
- EssetminorTemporary consortium with Energinvest awarded contract to assist POM Oost-Vlaanderen with expert input on ESCOs and EPC for SMEs as part of ESCO4Oost-Vlaanderen project.
Scale indicators9 records
Recent moves6 records
Expansion highlights5 records
energ'invest competitors and assessment
Company assessmentDirect peers
- Econoler: Canadian energy efficiency consultancy that helps public and private clients design and implement EPC, ESCO, and financing programs internationally. Comparable niche focus, multi-region delivery, and public-sector client mix.
- EcoAct: France-based climate consultancy (now part of ENGIE / Carbon4 Finance) advising on carbon strategy, energy efficiency, and performance contracting for corporates and public bodies. Closest continental-European peer for energy-transition advisory with ESCO overlap.
- 3E: Belgian/German energy and sustainability consultancy with overlapping building-energy, energy-audit, and policy expertise. Co-developed the Smart Matrix tool with Energinvest, making it the closest direct peer in size, geography, and offering.
Emerging players
- Trinomics: Dutch consultancy specialized in energy and climate policy, EU project advisory, and impact assessment across European institutions. Comparable European-boutique profile with Horizon-funded and policy-adjacent work.
Broad incumbents
- Carbon Trust: UK-headquartered low-carbon advisory firm combining policy, advisory, and verification services across energy efficiency, EPC, and sustainability. Operating at much larger scale but serving the same corporate and public-sector demand for EPC/ESCO advisory.
- Guidehouse: Global energy and sustainability consultancy with a strong European public-sector practice advising utilities, ESCOs, and governments on energy transition and performance contracts. Represents the scaled competitive threat from incumbents moving into Energinvest's niche.
- Ramboll Energy: Engineering and design consultancy with an established energy and buildings practice covering EPC facilitation, district heating, and ESCO support across the Nordics, Benelux, and Continental Europe. Broader portfolio but overlapping building-energy advisory work.
Others
- Belgian ESCO Association (BELESCO): Industry association Energinvest founded and currently manages, grouping Belgian ESCOs and supply-chain players. Best classified as an ecosystem/industry-body peer rather than a market competitor.
- Fedesco (Belgian Federal ESCO): Belgian Federal Energy Services Company and Energinvest's most important long-standing client, but also an ecosystem participant that operationalizes the EPC frameworks Energinvest designs. Treated as an adjacent strategic partner rather than direct competitor.
Regional players
- SE4Change: Dutch energy consultancy providing strategic advice, EPC and financing support to municipalities, housing associations, and property owners in the Netherlands. Most relevant comparable in the Benelux low-energy-buildings advisory market.
Market position
Strengths1 record
Weaknesses5 records
Competitive moat5 records
Key risks6 records
Key highlights7 records
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energ'invest leadership team
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Profiles4 records
energ'invest funding detail
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Frequently asked questions about energ'invest
What does energ'invest do?
Energinvest is a strategic, financial and operational consulting firm that designs, implements, evaluates and funds investment programs and energy efficiency projects for private and public clients. The firm provides expertise in third-party financing mechanisms, energy performance contracting (EPC), energy public-private partnerships (EPPP), and third-party investment (TPI) models, delivered through three flagship consulting methodologies (smartEPC, smartBPM, smartIFP) and supported by a suite of proprietary assessment, audit and benchmarking tools.
Is energ'invest a public or private company?
energ'invest is a private company. It is classified as founder individual operated bootstrapped and is currently operating.
When was energ'invest founded?
energ'invest was founded in 1984. It employs 1 to 10 people.
Where is energ'invest based?
energ'invest is headquartered in Brussels, Belgium, in the Europe region.
How does energ'invest make money?
Three revenue lines are on record. Strategic and Financial Consulting is the primary driver. The others are project Facilitation Services and training and Workshops.
Who are energ'invest's main competitors?
Direct peers on record are Econoler, EcoAct and 3E. Trinomics is listed as an emerging player. Broad incumbents are Carbon Trust, Guidehouse and Ramboll Energy. Others are Belgian ESCO Association (BELESCO) and Fedesco (Belgian Federal ESCO). SE4Change is listed as a regional player.
Does energ'invest have an API?
No public API is recorded for energ'invest.
What industry is energ'invest in?
energ'invest's product category is Energy Efficiency Consulting. Its primary akta.pro industry code is BPAHAJAF, EHS Management Systems & ISO Consulting (ISO 14001/45001), with a secondary code of BPAHAJAG, EHS Auditing, Inspections & Assurance. Its NAICS code is 5416 and its SIC code is 8742.