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Retail
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Challenges
You must reduce construction time and cost. You work on reducing operating costs and
optimising the price of energy, yet refrigeration represents 35 to 50% of total consumption. Customers' comfort and security are paramount, requiring round-the-clock power availability, yet you must support your firm's environmental efforts and comply with energy regulations.
Our solutions
Schneider Electric's integrated solutions and
expertise make retail space
safe,
reliable,
efficient, and
productive. We help you protect people, assets, and the environment on-site with a comprehensive scope of power, building, and security management, while optimizing CapEx and OpEx. Our combined energy efficiency and operation and maintenance improvements reduce operating costs by as much as 30%.
Main drivers
- Construction cost and time reduction: Strong continuous pressure on Design & Build players to reduce
- Operating costs: Retail is a razor-thin margin business, where every cent saved on cost is important and ROI is less than 3 years
- Availability: Cash systems and lighting must be continuously operated
- Lighting: Specialist and additional lighting to enable sales
- Customers' comfort and security: Customers' environmental comfort and feeling of security boost sales
- Energy efficiency for refrigeration: Refrigeration, the no. 1 process for food retail, is consuming 35 to 50% of the total energy, with little being done to reduce usage and save energy
- Environmental efforts: Retailers need to be seen as environmentally friendly by their customers
- Regulations: Energy regulations strongly develop in more and more countries
- Energy price optimisation: Energy market liberalisation leads to central purchasing for multiple sites & countries
- Facility management: Whenever possible, building Operation & Maintenance is preferred
- Retrofit: In Western countries, the installed base is approximately 20 years old, heavy retrofits are going on, with energy efficiency requirements
What can Schneider Electric do?
- Reduce construction cost by using prefabricated and type tested equipment
- Reduce energy and operation costs by 5 to 20% with a 3-year ROI
- Improve your image: Green buildings, cold chain quality
- Secure controlled comfort for your customers
- Focus on your core business by outsourcing building services
- Get the benefits of increased skills by relying on building services specialists
- Optimise your core business by outsourcing building services to improve building operation, comfort and sales area availability
Key applications for Energy Efficiency
