Schneider Electric Partners with geo to Advance Home Energy Management System

Schneider Electric Partners with geo to Advance Home Energy Management System 16/09/2020

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Schneider Electric, the leader in the digital transformation of energy management and automation, has announced a partnership with geo (Green Energy Options), the smart home energy specialist based in Cambridge, to accelerate the UK's journey to net zero homes.

A first for both companies, the co-development brings together geo's innovative, agile product development and data insights with Schneider's energy management technology and extensive channel network.

According to the latest Climate Change Committee (CCC) report, the UK will not meet its 2050 zero carbon goals without almost entirely eliminating greenhouse gas emissions from Britain's 29 million homes. Developing a net zero home requires companies to collaborate to create smarter, more connected and more efficient mass market solutions. The Schneider Electric and geo partnership brings a new level of intelligence to the at-home energy management market, providing the impetus for widespread change.

The partnership will deliver the first fully connected, comprehensive heating control system that uses the full range of smart meter data, said Patrick Caiger-Smith, geo CEO. While smart meters are being rolled out across the UK, we have not seen much of the data generated being used to inform home energy management. The solution developed through this partnership is truly ground-breaking, injecting data science into a major infrastructure programme to put consumers in control.

Our current domestic energy use makes the 2050 net zero target impossible. We need to accelerate the journey to net zero homes now, commented Mike Hughes, Zone President UK & Ireland, Schneider Electric. Home energy infrastructure, as a whole, needs to become smarter and provide homeowners with complete control over energy generation, consumption and storage. With this first co-development partnership, we are investing in innovation and ensuring that we're best placed to create the net zero home. We want to work with the country's most innovative companies and individuals to make that vision a reality.

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Mike Hughes

Zone President, Schneider Electric UK & Ireland

During his more than 20 years with Schneider Electric Mike has had a diverse international career. He currently heads up the Schneider Electric business in the UK and Ireland, with responsibility for the operations of the Group within the Zone. In his previous roles he led the global strategic accounts, commercial organisation of the group and prior to that he managed the secure power and datacenter business in EMEA. Earlier in his career he led the Industrial automation business Unit in China and headed up the Schneider Electric business in Taiwan. Mike started his career in the Industrial motion control and automation business out of the black forest in Germany. Prior to that, Mike studied Electronics and Telecommunications at DIT in Dublin and holds an MBA from Kingston University in London. Mike believes that technology is key to delivering efficiency, unleashing sustainable growth, supporting innovation and reducing environmental impact. We currently face an energy dilemma. Our world is rapidly becoming digitised and electrified whilst power generation is increasingly unpredictable, fragmented and complex. He believes technology has the potential to help us solve the challenge ahead, delivering more power from clean energy sources whilst simultaneously increasing energy efficiency. As a leader and manager, Mike strongly supports the employee wellbeing, inclusion and flexible working initiatives that underpin the culture of high performance at Schneider Electric. Mike speaks English, German, Mandarin and French and lives in London. He is a regular Forbes contributor and you can follow him on LinkedIn and Twitter.

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