Invest Energy Group

Clean Energy + Transition

"Flexible, Stable, Cost-effective and Efficient Energy”

We aim to be a leading investor, owner and operator of distributed generation, clean energy, and energy transition assets in Southeast Asia. Our business portfolio and focus comprises a diverse technology base of co-generation and waste heat recovery plants, via distributed generation, district and centralized
cooling systems and energy storage.

We utilize our fully integrated operating platform and in-house expertise to build & maintain facilities, organically add value and efficiently integrate new assets, realizing cost synergies in the process. Our business is underpinned by stable cash flows, with the majority of our power contracted under long-term, inflation-linked contracts.

Distributed Generation

Our commitment to continuous improvement in everything we do drives us to develop innovative, industry leading solutions to complex problems from
power and steam to cooling.

Our Co-generation or Combined Heat and Power (CHP) is the simultaneous production of electricity with the recovery and utilisation heat for steam. Whereas our Tri-generation Energy Systems or Combined Cooling, Heat and Power (CCHP) refers to the simultaneous generation of electrical power, chilled water and hot water. We look into large scale projects for industrial parks as the sole energy operator to dedicated plants for large scale industrial businesses from glove makers to food & beverage operators.  These generation plants tend to reduce your overall energy cost while delivering sustainable energy.

Co-generation Energy Systems
Tri-generation Energy Systems

Waste Heat Recovery

For large scale heavy industries that are energy guzzlers such as cement, steel and glass, much heat is released via their processes which allows us to capture it and convert into green electricity. These heat recovery plants not only reduce your energy cost but significantly minimizes environmental impact due to Co2 pollution. We aim to be a leading player in this sector supporting businesses around the region with our core technology partners.

District and Centralized Cooling

Our integrated cooling business ranges from district cooling plants to centralized cooling systems and increasing efficiency by implementing many technologies such as nano liquids to improving operational efficiency. Our portfolio of cooling assets provide customers fixed cooling rates and temperatures with improved efficiency while allowing to focus on their core business.

Energy Storage

Our batteries store power generated by our facilities when the sun is shining, then dispatch the stored power to the grid or a customer’s relevant premises to supplement dips in operation – such as when clouds roll in and temporarily reduce the sunlight reaching a solar plant’s panels. The stored power during off-peak hours can also be dispatched during periods of peak customer electricity demand. We are looking at growing our integrated energy storage portfolio in line with supporting our generation assets and customers’ peak demand.

“We create sustainable economic advantages for our customers and shareholders and actively working on improving environmental conditions aimed in reducing fuel consumption and prevent CO2 emissions”

Gopala Krishnan C.P Gopalan
Director, Group Strategy & Policy

Sustainable, Reliable & Affordable Energy!

Providing Value To Our ClientsThrough Ongoing Product & Innovation.

How We Do It

Clean Energy Solutions

Waste Heat Recovery System

Our waste heat recovery technologies mitigate climate change by generating clean energy from complex industries that emit waste gas and heat.

Invest Energy’s one of the kind Waste Heat Recovery (WHR) power plants is an energy recovery heat exchanger that transfers heat from process outputs at high temperature to another part of the process for some purpose, usually for an increased efficiency. It is highly suitable for distributed generation, that generate electric and thermal power exploiting multiple sources, such as renewables (biomass, geothermal energy, solar energy), traditional fuels and waste heat from industrial processes such as furnaces and klins, waste incinerators, engines or gas turbines. These industries include cement, glass, steel, manufacturing and power plants.

Our core technological focus is WHR Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) systems whose guiding principle is based on a turbo generator working as a conventional steam turbine to transform thermal energy into mechanical energy and finally into electric energy through an electrical generator. Instead of generating steam from water, the ORC system vaporizes an organic fluid, characterized by a molecular mass higher than that of water, which leads to a slower rotation of the turbine, lower pressures and no erosion of the metal parts and blades.

The clear advantages of an ORC include:-

  • Zero use of fuel
  • Ensures higher efficiency of turbine
  • Simple stop and start up procedures
  • Good system efficiency at partial load
  • Very long lifetime, (around 25 years)
  • No water consumption
  • No need of manpower to run the system
  • Simple and low maintenance
  • Excellent operational performance: >98% availability

Clean Energy Solutions

District Cooling Plants

Leveraging on our end-to-end technological integration, innovations and technical experience to deliver exceptional service.

District cooling system distributes cooling capacity in the form of chilled water or other medium from a central source to multiple buildings through a network of pipes for use in space and process cooling. Individual user purchases chilled water from the district cooling system operator and for this system a central chiller plant, a pump house and a distribution pipeline network are required. Where there is substantial heating demand, the plant can also be designed to supply hot water using co-generation technology.

These District Cooling Plants can be further combined with Thermal Energy Storage systems such as:-

  • Ice Storage which is energy stored in solid or ice phase and ideal for small work areas with a relatively small footprint
  • Chilled Water Storage which is energy in the chilled water liquid phase and economically ideal for larger applications

District Cooling systems have several attributes that give them an advantage under certain conditions over conventional energy systems. By replacing many individual air-cooled split units from the individual building chiller system with one central cooling source, results in: –

  • Reduced capital and operating costs
  • Building owners no longer needs to operate, maintain chillers and replace chillers at the end of their life cycle
  • Bigger chillers have significantly better overall efficiency resulting in cost benefits from substantially lower electricity usage and reduced maintenance
  • Reduced Green House Gas Emissions and other pollutants
  • Improve building space utilization as an average of 75% of plant room space can be saved
  • Improve reliability and flexibility including air quality