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COST-EFFICIENT SOLUTIONS SMART SUSTAINABLE

To assist private owners and businesses with their energy efficiency initiatives, Rexel has expanded its cost-efficient solutions range.

Its offering now integrates equipment refurbishment, consumption monitoring and control, and optimization of provisioning costs for key accounts.

OPTIMIZING ROI

EQUIPEMENT REFURBISHMENT Lighting technologies have led to spectacular progress in energy consumption. For individual users as well as businesses, the most ef- fective product is the LED, which offers a particularly high ROI and is currently on its way to conquering all fields of lighting. Rexel is working on many lighting retrofit projects, enabling imme- diate savings of up to 80%. Electric motors are the main area of industrial electrical energy consumption, accounting for up to 65% of total consumption. A new generation of more energy-efficient motors was developed, producing the same economic power thanks to efficiency optimization. Rexel of- fers its customers the most power- ful engines, which comply with the new European regulations. In the US, Rexel installs latest generation engines for demonstration at its industrial customers sites so that they can test their efficiency.

LOWERING COSTS THROUGH CONSUMPTION CONTROL Consumption monitoring and control lie at the core of energy ef- ficiency. By using measurement and sensing devices, it is indeed possible to automate certain functions in or- der to optimize consumption and therefore reduce electricity bills. In 2014, Rexel launched an energy consumption monitoring solution designed for lessors, operators and users of commercial and in- dustrial sites. Energeasy Advisor collects data on energy and fluid streams, hosts it on a remote ser- ver and uses it to set up optimiza- tion strategies aimed at lowering operational costs.

Rexel s expertise in measuring energy consumption is a key asset. It allows us to prove the benefits of new technologies and to educate the consumer.

BRIAN SMITHERS Business Development Director, Rexel UK

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