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encouraging start, as even in December I was receiving news about a plethora of charitable works and fundraisers happening in our industry. It’s incredibly heartening.
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One such fundraiser was organised by Hamilton, who donated £3,200 to Wallace & Gromit’s ‘The Grand Appeal’, which raises funds for the Bristol Royal Hospital for Children. During the company’s 500th anniversary year, the team also undertook a gruelling 110-mile charity bike ride between Teddington and Bristol to raise £1,600 for the local community near its Bristol headquarters. Great stuff! January also marks a poignant time to look ahead at what’s going to impact the electrical wholesaling industry in the months to come – nationally and globally – and in the wake of the IPCC’s landmark report on climate change, green energy and energy management are a particularly prudent focus. A survey by npower Business Solutions and
YouGov has discovered that two-thirds (69%) of energy managers are not aware of energy management strategies like DSR. Curbing energy use and reducing energy consumption to outside
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5 INDUSTRY NEWS Market and industry update
12, 34, 39 INSTALLATION NEWS Case studies from Luceco, Marshall Tufflex, and Scolmore
13 ADVERTISERS ANNOUNCEMENT A Vent-Axia update
13 PRODUCT NEWS C.K introduces the Gloworm
24 EW AWARDS The latest info about the 2019 EW Awards – entries close soon!
29 FEATURES
16 LIGHTING The Edinburgh College Estate steps into the light
19 LIGHTING Beware of the glare
22 INDUSTRY COMMENT A guide to matching switches and sockets
26 ELECTRIC WATER HEATING An in-depth look at boiling water taps
29 ELECTRIC HEATING The Internet of Things meets smart heating
32 SECURITY Staying secure under data protection laws
36 SALES TECHNIQUES Defining ‘servitisation’ for the wholesaler
JANUARY 2019 VOLUME 58 NUMBER 01 Electrical Wholesaler is
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ell, here we are again in January! I hope everyone is well-rested after the break and ready to ring in the new year. It’s off to an
peak hours of demand will become an increasingly important way to reduce overall energy costs, which are tipped to rise by 40-45% by 2028. Other companies are mobilising under the
auspice of energy solutions, including Delta, which organised an official side event at the Katowice COP24 Climate Change Conference in Poland, to reflect on the role of distributed energy resources in advancing the energy resilience of cities. Cartosys will likewise help UK Power Networks transition to a low-carbon economy, and the Berkeley Group’s South Quay Plaza development in London’s Docklands, one of the tallest residential towers in the UK and the tallest tower in the Berkeley Group, is set to use Veolia’s latest combined heat and power (CHP) technology to provide low carbon energy. We all have our part to play, and so whether
that’s charity work or raising green-energy awareness, it all counts in the long run.
Hannah Hart Editor
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