2024-01-31 08:58:15
The vice-president of the Roche group André Hoffmann invests in the energy transition of municipalities. Guest on 7:30 p.m., the billionaire believes that everyone must act at their own level, and says he is lucky to be able to do so by supporting innovative projects.
The fortune of the Hoffmann Oeri family, from the Roche pharmaceutical empire, is estimated at nearly 27 billion francs, making it the second largest Swiss fortune. However, the expression ‘green billionaire’, which might be used to designate him, does not please André Hoffmann.
“I find it a bit difficult to be categorized as a billionaire. I’m trying to do activism, and I think my financial condition shouldn’t stop that.” He continues: “We must each, in our own way, try to put in place the framework conditions for sustainable prosperity. I am lucky to be able to invest in new ideas, I do. I am lucky to be able to help new projects, I’m doing it.”
As for the often very polluting lifestyle of billionaires, he retorts: “I must say that I prefer the train to the jet.”
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Helping communities
Concretely, André Hoffmann invests to help municipalities make their energy transition. Tuesday, he was in the Broyard village of Henniez, the latest municipality to benefit from his support.
“Small municipalities, in particular the Vaudois municipalities, are faced with real problems in carrying out the energy transition, especially autonomously. This plan that we have put in place with a few friends works extraordinarily well for small municipalities. And I “I’m committed to doing this because it’s a sector that’s underserved by the rest of the industry,” he explains.
André Hoffmann believes in it and supports it: carbon neutrality can start with small communities and have a real impact, for example by focusing on energy recycling and investing in heating. “In each municipality, on each municipal territory, there are resources to live independently. Finance is only a facilitator.”
“The market must be well regulated”
The vice-president of the Roche group also calls for state control of the energy market. “The notion of private-public partnership seems important to me. For years, the private sector was trying to bypass the public, and the public was trying to prevent the private sector from doing what it had to do.”
“We need a new model in the future. The idea that the market is always right is probably an idea that is a bit outdated. Today, the market must be well regulated. And in particular for “energy”, he concludes.
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