Solar heat collection, heat pumps and photovoltaics use renewable energies, delivering electricity and heat without fossil fuels. These are technologies that are closely linked with the work of the electrical traces.
At the Climate Summit of the European Union binding pledges were taken to reduce CO2 emissions by at least 20% by the year 2020. Moreover, renewables are to account for a 20% share in energy by that same date and energy consumption is to be reduced by 20%.
This will have a significant effect on the trades. More and more end users will be seeking competent information on options for using renewable energies. This is a market opening that our customers will be discovering for themselves and ought to be exploiting. To name just one example, the share of renewable energies, measured in terms of primary energy consumption, rose by almost 13% in the year 2006 alone. By the year 2030 the amount of power generated with renewables will considerably exceed the output eliminated by the closure of atomic power plants. Even today, some 40 million households around the world already use solar collectors to heat water and about 5 million consumers use electricity from renewable sources – and the trend is rising. But not only will the share of renewable energies rise; how we use energy will also change. Energy consumption will be characterized by more efficient utilization, taking account of the fact that resources are becoming scarcer. Energy efficiency, energy-saving lamps and thrifty electrical appliances are places where the electrical trades can make a start.
Sonepar Deutschland supports its customers in the trades with information, training and sales tools, letting them position themselves early on as a competent resource for the topic of renewable energy. Because no matter whether energy is saved in machinery, illumination or hot water heating, whether power is generated using photovoltaics, wind power or geothermal sources, whether heat is extracted with heat pumps or solar panels or recovered with closely controlled residential space ventilation – electrical engineering is always right at the center of these efforts.
Renewable energies are thus a growing market for the future at Sonepar Deutschland and for the electrical trades. Working together, we want to establish a foothold in this market before others do so. At Sonepar Deutschland this is once again an opportunity, as a front-runner in the field and a partner to the trades, to capture tomorrow’s markets and achieve mutual growth.
