What does Enjay bring new to our energy procurement?
The biggest news is that Enjay’s technology allows you to – finally – recover low grade thermal waste heat from your manufacturing processes on site. On average, 60% of European industrial waste heat is low grade, so this is a significant new energy source available to you on site. It hasn’t been recoverable before, due to a lack of robust technology – but now, what used to be waste is transformed into valuable energy that displaces a significant part of the fossil energy you currently procure.

How much energy can we save?
A typical industrial dryer – pet food, chocolate, or similar – achieves a 20% decrease in required thermal power, directly reducing both energy consumption and fossil fuel use by the same amount.

Why is recovered energy cheaper than natural gas?
When you buy thermal energy from burning natural gas, the cost includes several components: the gas commodity price itself, transmission and distribution charges, metering and service fees, taxes and levies, and – often overlooked – losses from burner inefficiency. Recovered energy carries none of these costs. Once the equipment is installed, the energy source itself – heat that would otherwise be vented to atmosphere – is free. It’s the same commercial advantage every fuel–free energy source has: once wind turbines or solar panels are built, the wind and sunlight cost nothing. The same is true here – the recovered energy carries no cost for generation, and because it’s used on site, no cost for transmission or distribution either.

Does lower cost come with any trade–off?
No. Enjay’s recovered energy is priced below the cost of natural gas–based thermal energy, with no reduction in reliability or service quality.

How can you offer lower–cost energy without asking us for upfront Capex?
It’s simpler than it might appear: Enjay charges only for the energy delivered, just as you’d normally procure energy. When you buy electricity, you don’t expect your utility to first bill you for your share of the power plant – you expect to buy power at an agreed price. Enjay’s EaaS model works the same way, just delivering thermal power rather than electrical power. Because recovered energy carries none of the cost drivers that make natural gas expensive (see above), Enjay can price it below the cost of gas–based energy, while using the margin across a long–term contract to cover the installation and equipment investment and generate the returns needed for stable, long–term operation.

You don’t have to – you’re welcome to purchase Enjay’s equipment directly and run it as a normal ROI project, like any other capital investment. Buying outright will eventually deliver a larger long-term Opex saving, once the investment is paid back, since you keep the full benefit rather than sharing it with Enjay through a service fee.

What doesn’t change between the two routes is your emissions impact. The 20% reduction in thermal power requirement is a physical outcome of the installation itself – it happens whether you own the equipment or access it through EaaS, so the full emissions reduction from avoided natural gas combustion is captured either way.
The real difference comes down to Capex. The single biggest obstacle to getting energy efficiency projects approved is rarely a lack of understanding that they’ll save money and cut emissions – it’s that Capex is tightly restricted, even for projects with a short payback period. EaaS exists for exactly this reason: it gives you the full emissions benefit and a lower energy cost from day one, without having to compete for Capex approval – in exchange for a smaller long-term Opex saving than you’d eventually capture by owning the equipment outright.

The contract term is 10 years – considerably shorter than comparable EaaS schemes, such as rooftop solar – and the agreement stipulates the terms under which early termination applies.

A fair question, and a natural one to ask if you’re not from Sweden. More than 80% of Swedes purchase thermal energy via district heating grids on a monthly basis, so to Swedes, buying a kWh of thermal heating for your house is just as natural as buying a kWh of electricity.
Delivered energy is measured using energy meters selected because they adhere to the European Standard EN1434 and European Directive MID 2014/32/EU, ensuring the meter complies with required technical specifications and is sealed so its data cannot be tampered with, regardless of external attempts to interfere with it.

The meter reading always forms the basis for the monthly Enjay invoice, and the data can be checked in two ways: directly, via the display on the on-site energy meter, which always shows accumulated energy, and remotely, via login to a secure, access-controlled data platform where historical data is available for two years, with a 10-minute delay. The agreement also stipulates the right to review the data and request recalibration of the metering equipment if inaccuracies are suspected.

Enjay offers two pricing models:
A. Pre-defined flat rate in €/MWh, fixed over the ten-year agreement period. This model is designed to remove any concern about rising fossil fuel prices or the high volatility natural gas has shown over the last ten years.

B. Variable €/MWh, based on the prior month’s average natural gas price on the European Natural Gas Stock Exchange (TTF). The monthly price is set at 95% of the prior month’s average TTF price. Combined with the transmission, distribution, metering and burner-inefficiency costs that natural gas carries but recovered energy doesn’t, this generally produces a total cost saving of around 20% versus natural gas – before accounting for taxes, levies, and any future ETS2-related costs, which would increase the saving further.

We distinguish between HVAC maintenance and service on one hand, and periodic hands-on cleaning of the Enjay units on the other.
Periodic cleaning: at the request of customers in the food industry, cleaning of the Enjay unit generally sits with the customer’s own responsibilities – this is a task that fits more naturally with an in-house service team than with an external party visiting two to four times a year for a job that typically takes less than an hour. If scheduled cleaning is missed and performance begins to degrade, Enjay’s remote monitoring flags this as part of our standard early-warning system, and we’ll notify your team directly so cleaning can be scheduled before it affects energy delivery or billing.

HVAC maintenance and service: this is Enjay’s responsibility. The installation is remotely monitored to manage energy metering, generate early warnings for unexpected operational issues, and coordinate scheduled HVAC service.

First, the equipment’s life expectancy is considerably longer than ten years – and since the thermal power reduction it delivers is permanent, there’s a strong incentive to keep the installation running rather than revert to higher fossil fuel consumption.

At the end of the initial ten-year agreement, you have three options:

A. Pay the pre-determined residual value stipulated in the agreement, taking on ownership and responsibility for operating the Enjay equipment yourself.

B. Extend the agreement for five years, at a considerably lower flat rate. By this point, Enjay has recovered the Capex required for the initial installation, and can continue delivering recovered energy robustly at a fraction of the first ten years’ flat rate.

C. Decline both options. Enjay will remove the equipment and restore the original ventilation configuration, at a cost agreed in the original ten year agreement.

A fair question for any long-term service commitment. Enjay has a collateral agreement in place with the project’s finance providers, ensuring the equipment continues operating for the remainder of the agreement term regardless of Enjay’s own financial position.

A strong gas deal is a reasonable position to be in – but it only controls your price per unit of gas, not your total exposure to fossil fuel consumption, price volatility, or emissions. Enjay’s recovered energy displaces kWh you’d otherwise buy at that negotiated price. Even with a good gas deal, using less gas overall still benefits your cost base and your emissions footprint – and the kWh Enjay delivers are priced below what you currently pay your gas supplier.

The same, regardless of how you finance it. The 20% reduction in thermal power requirement is a physical outcome of the installation – it happens whether you own the equipment outright or access it through EaaS. That means the full emissions reduction from avoided natural gas combustion is captured either way: 100% of the emissions tied to that reduced gas purchase are mitigated under EaaS, exactly as they would be if you’d made the Capex investment yourself.

What differs between the two models is the Opex saving you retain. With a direct Capex purchase, you keep the full long-term Opex benefit once the investment is paid back. With EaaS, part of that value goes toward Enjay’s service fee instead, so your net Opex saving is smaller than the Capex-and-own route would eventually deliver – but your emissions impact is not.

In short: EaaS doesn’t trade away environmental benefit for financial convenience. It trades away some long-term Opex upside for zero Capex risk and zero wait for payback – while the emissions reduction stays exactly the same either way.

Every kWh of recovered energy displaces a kWh of fossil fuel you’d otherwise burn in burners, boilers or generators – directly reducing the fossil CO₂ your production processes emit. Since Scope 1 emissions are defined as the fossil emissions generated by your own internal processes, and burning fuel for thermal heat is typically a major component of that figure, recovered energy produces a direct, proportional reduction in your Scope 1 footprint.