Compagnies des Alpes // 2019 Universal Registration Document

4 STATEMENT OF NON FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE Environmental challenges

cooling, whereby low night temperatures are used to cool some of our premises (Chaplin’s World); l regulating the speed of ski lifts depending on the tra f fic. We are running trials which scan the queue and adjust the speed automatically; l installing frequency drives for snow-making (pumps and compressors) and the gradual removal of air heaters from the stations; l conducting energy diagnostics in the buildings (last year Musée Grévin in Paris allocated €200 thousand to replacing openings and improving the building’s thermal insulation, France Miniature invested €20 thousand to change its o ffi ce heating system) and renovating lodges in the Ski areas; l experimenting with leaving vehicles at the top of the slopes with the fi nal kilometres only covered during summer maintenance; l equipment (ski lifts, snow-making machines, pumps, etc.) replaced with higher performance equipment which uses new traction systems. 4.3.2.2.2 Supporting the transition to renewable energies At Group level, l energy from renewable sources represents 55% of energy consumed, entirely from electricity; l “green” electricity from renewable sources represents 86% of electricity consumed:

training the drivers and using GPS and radars to optimise routes, which make it possible to adjust the grooming machine plans and produce arti fi cial snow with more precision. The Group’s fl eet of electric and hybrid vehicles increased by 13% to a total of 101. The Leisure parks lend themselves particularly well to the use of electric vehicles, especially non-speci fi c ones such as lorries and maintenance vehicles, because of the con fi guration of the closed sites. Fuel oil consumption is mainly used to heat buildings. Fuel oil accounts for only 5% of total consumption of fossil fuels. Guidelines sent to Group sites request them to keep their use of this type of fuel to a minimum when undertaking medium-term renovations. 4.3.2.1.4 Gas consumption Finally, gas is mainly consumed by Leisure parks, which account for 99% of the 33 GWh used by the Group. Gas is mainly used to heat buildings and bathing water. Due to the fact its electricity and heat cogenerator is powered by natural gas, Futuroscope alone accounts for 54% of the total gas consumption. However the energy is not only produced to meet the Park’s needs. It is also supplied to neighbouring companies and premises and fed into the electricity grid. The Ski areas use very small quantities mainly to trigger avalanches. 4.3.2.2 Energy efficiency and support for renewable energies 4.3.2.2.1 Energy efficiency We continued to monitor and optimise energy consumption through the sharing of best energy saving practices and we must continue to step up our e ff orts in this respect. For example, in 2019 we o ff ered a more ergonomic version of our electricity consumption management system and put together a set of good practices to allow each Ski Area to self-assess or include new aspects in the speci fi cations of new projects and renovations. Our sites with ISO 50001 certi fi cation set themselves quanti fi able consumption reduction targets. For example, Parc Astérix reduced its consumption by 5% ( i.e. 1 GWh on a like-for-like basis over one year) and Futuroscope set itself the target of a 20% reduction in consumption between 2018 and 2023. The sites have launched many activity-speci fi c initiatives to reduce their energy consumption. These include: l the regrouping of the Paris and Chambéry o ffi ces at energy-e ffi cient sites in each of the two cities; l rationalisation of our ski lifts to allow us to cover the same ski area with fewer machines; l the general installation of LEDs during renovations ( e.g. outside car park at Bellewaerde and video projectors at the Musée Grévin), the purchase of energy-e ffi cient equipment and better temperature monitoring and control: installation of presence-sensing devices, turning down heating and shutting o ff equipment at night and the installation of sensors on some of the workshop doors which cut o ff the heating when opened; l the use of sub-meters; l installing heat recovery devices in the machinery and transformer to heat the industrial premises (for example, in the new Eychauda chairlift at Serre Chevalier), and at the other end of the scale, free

ORIGIN OF ENERGY CONSUMED (MWH)

45 % Non-renewable energy (fossil fuels, gas and

55 % Renewable energy (electricity)

non-green electricity)

ORIGIN OF ELECTRICITY CONSUMED (MWH)

14 % Electricity from non-renewable sources

86 % Electricity guaranteed from renewable sources or produced on site

Use of “green” electricity Following on from the historic step taken by the Ski areas, the Group’s French Leisure parks (Parc Astérix, Walibi Rhône-Alpes, Musée Grévin Paris and France Miniature) have also been using electricity certi fi ed

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