Technology in sustainability: A profitable business to fix the future

A presentation at Thoughtworks Live UK in October 2022 in London, UK by Oriol Tauleria

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Technology in sustainability a profitable business to fix the future 1

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Questions about the future: Will we need more energy ?

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Questions about the future: Will we need more energy ? To pollute, should be more expensive ?

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Questions about the future: Will we need more energy ? To pollute, should be cheaper or expensive ? Fossil fuels will be less accessible?

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Numbers Energy Composition https://ourworldindata.org/energy-mix

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We have a problem

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Value proposition Buy Green electricity Transmission network Supply customers 8

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Value proposition Buy Green electricity Reduce demand, offer better prices Solar customers Transmission network Supply customers 9

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Value proposition Buy Green electricity Reduce demand, offer better prices Transmission network Bu Solar customers Up to 100% savings in their electricity bill ye lec tri big city s u su rpl rplus us at Extra energy surplus Self-consumption energy Supply customers Cheaper electricity Maximize the rooftop potential 10

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Two businesses that make each other unique Supply of electricity We sell electricity to our Supply customers without solar installations … 1 2 We connect people to green energy We transform every m2 of rooftop into green energy production Installation and management of distributed assets … and we buy that electricity from the surplus production generated by our Solar customers with nearby solar installations, whose rooftop potential is completely leveraged A flywheel powered by trust 11

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Why are we here? 12

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Faithfulness to your vision & to your value proposition 13

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Gas price evolution https://tarifasgasluz.com/comparador/tarifa-ultimo-recurso-gas

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Learnings “If sustainability is in your core values hard decisions will be clearer to take.”

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Disrupting the way energy is produced and consumed in the country of the sun 19

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Disrupting products 2017: “Pay as you go” market ● ● ● This model transfers all system and sector problems to customer. Business models of incumbents take advantage of the Status Quo. Legal regulations tightly coupled with this kind of tariffs. 2018: Holaluz ships “Tarifa justa” ● ● ● Energy flat fee with 3 parts agreement: Customer, Holaluz, and the Planet. Holaluz, has the responsibility to make it profitable and fix suppliers challenges. NPS increases 10 points and 25% less churn for this product. 20

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The rooftop revolution “Classical” solar energy market model ✔ Cost efficiency ✔ Minimum Solar Panels ✔ Self consumption ✔ Dependency on centralized generation

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The rooftop revolution “Classical” energy market model ✔ Cost efficiency ✔ Minimum Solar Panels ✔ Self consumption ✔ Dependency on centralized generation Our disruption: The rooftop revolution ✔ Maximize ROI (customer & HLZ) ✔ Maximize solar panels ✔ ProSumers ✔ Distributed generation

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Learnings “Be brave to disrupt. High purposes could not be achieved by doing the same old.”

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Faithfulness and Disruption through Technology 24

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Our Vision We enable technology to deliver products and experiences our customers love. ➔ We innovate to avoid commoditization. ➔ We deliver software to increase profitability. ➔ We transform an old, non-technological Our aim is bring an energy as a service experience through technology industry to a full digital and customer centric experience for our customers. 25

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Tech to Boost our vision Prediction and pre-invoicing system Gas- offboarding executed in 15 days Efficient Green We provide to our customers control of their invoices. We provide information and a fluent transition to our customers. Helped us to have a highly-tunned purchase system to reduce risks and cash flow. Data migration plan to our customers to offer the best onboarding on the new company. 26

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Tech to Disrupt “Tarifa Justa” ● ● ● ● Calculate the best monthly quota Detect deviations Infere future consumptions Automate calculus Solar Surplus ● ● ● Identify viable rooftops Calculate better solar panels distribution Find neighbours to distribute surplus production 27

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Learnings “Technology & Data are the most powerful drivers to disrupt. Use them.”

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“Hard decisions will be clearer to take if sustainability is in your core values.” ”Be brave to disrupt. Ambitious purposes could not be chased doing the same as always.” “Technology & Data are the most powerful drivers to disrupt. Use them.”

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● We face a global environmental crisis 1 ● We face a global energy & economic crisis 2 ● Rooftop revolution is our solution 3

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Sustainability should be a core value

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Sustainability in company core values is a business driver

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Q&A Thank you! Why? @uritau oriol.tauleria@holaluz.com oriol.tauleria@holaluz.com | @uritau jordi.medina@holaluz.com | @jmedinafruitos 34

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