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Energy’ initiative. A programme aimed at changing business, consumer and government attitudes to energy waste and help combat climate change. A Schneider Electric commissioned study of 2,000 UK adults and over 600 UK businesses revealed that just 10% of consumers want to do more to curb their current energy use, while 74% believe they already do enough. In the same report, 68% of business leaders reported their organisations


Rethink Energy initiative launched by Schneider Electric I


ndustry leader in digital transformation of energy management and automation, Schneider Electric, has launched its ‘Rethink


wasted energy, particularly in the form of inefficient building and office space. Under half (43%) of company chiefs also shared their organisation had not implemented any measures aimed at tackling these inefficiencies in 2018. Schneider Electric’s full report will be released later this summer. To launch its Rethink Energy initiative, Schneider Electric held a panel


debate at Tottenham Hotspur’s new stadium, one of the world’s most energy efficient stadiums. Schneider Electric is THFC’s official energy management partner.


The debate focused on three key areas: The role for energy in achieving a zero-carbon economy by 2050 £1 trillion price tag – cost or opportunity What will drive change in the UK’s demand for energy


The panellists included: David Joffe, Team Leader at the UK Committee on Climate Change, who commented: “Much of the problem with energy efficiency is measurement, you need to know how the measures you have put in place are performing.” Ben Golding, Director, Energy Efficiency and Local, Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy. ““UK emissions have already fallen by 40 percent since 1990, while the economy has grown by over 70 per cent. We’ve accepted the challenge to act on climate change. The government


Hughes Trade ventures into Scotland


can help to make it easier and simpler for UK businesses to change, building on successes, for example, in making renewables and electric vehicles cheaper.”


James Diggle, Head of Energy & Climate Change, the Confederation of


British Industry (CBI), who added: ““Businesses can help consumers make the changes they need to be more sustainable through new products and services” Mike Hughes, Zone President, Schneider Electric UK & Ireland, who concluded: “We need to bring energy front of mind. The market needs to take an activist approach to advocate for and instil efficiency and build an investment mindset if we are to achieve the 2050 net zero goal.”


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ontinuing its expansion programme, Hughes Trade has


opened its first branch in Scotland, located at Hillington Park on the outskirts of Glasgow. Virtually all items Hughes Trade offers


are available for businesses to rent which is becoming an increasingly attractive option as it offers many advantages; such as managing cash flow, taking the worry out of anything going wrong, while for many organisations it is also 100 per cent tax deductible.


www.ewnews.co.uk However, this is not the first time


Hughes Trade has operated in Scotland as it supplied over 2,000 electrical items to the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow as well as two lorry loads of goods used in the warehouse scene in ‘Trainspotting 2' which was filmed in the city! "Moving north of the border is an


exciting development for Hughes Trade," said general manager Paul Chisnall. "It is in a part of the country where we have not previously had a branch and every time I visit Glasgow there is a real buzz about the place.”


UK, Megaman, the energy efficient lighting manufacturer, has recruited a new National Sales Manager along with three new area-based Business Development Managers to its experienced sales team. Together the team will look to secure and build new relationships within the electrical wholesale sector. Lee Bradshaw is the new National Sales Manager, responsible for overseeing all of the company’s regional Business Development Managers (BDMs). Lee has over eight years’ lighting sales experience, having owned his own lighting business before joining Poole Lighting. He later worked as an Area and Regional Sales Manager for Ansell Lighting. As part of Lee’s team, Karen Jenkins has been appointed as the


new Megaman Business Development Manager for the South West, Paul Rossiter ha as a Business Development Manager to cover South Wales and the M4 Corridor, and Stuart Davies has taken on the role of Business Development Manager for Midlands Central.


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