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In 2015, after consolidating various solutions in several countries, Rexel rolled out its Energeasy range, which currently includes six different solution packages. These all-in-one programs, most of which are web-based, aim to improve access to energy efficiency in order to reduce end-users energy bills. Energeasy offers installers technical, commercial and financial support, helping them to reach new markets. End customers benefit from turnkey solutions including equipment, services and financing whose cost

effectiveness has been clearly proven.

ELECTRIC VEHICLE Energeasy Drive removes obstacles to electric transportation growth, especially the lack of information available to the general public and the need to install charging infrastructures. Implemented in January 2016 in the UK, the fourth largest

electric vehicle (EV) market in the world, the offer is presented on a double web portal. One of them addresses end-users, providing them

with information on electric vehicles, the charging stations available in the country and the financial advantages. The other targets installers and details technologies, available offers, commercial arguments, subsidies and financing solutions. Installers, members of the Energeasy Drive program, can rely on Rexel s support to obtain the Office for Low Emission Vehicles (OLEV) accreditation in order to help their customers benefit from government subsidies for EV home charge unit installation. For example, in order to remedy the lack of charging infrastructures and to meet its customers specific needs, in July 2015 the Stone House Hotel (Yorkshire, UK) equipped itself with a new generation charging station,

Acquired by Rexel in 2013, Inoveha is an engineering consultancy specializing in energy audits in commercial and residential buildings. Its services go beyond technical audits to include recommendations on facilities to be renovated and project management assistance. In 2015, Inoveha was granted OPQIBI (French engineering qualification organism) certification, now a prerequisite for most tenders. The company also conducted an energy audit of Rexel France, based on an approved selection of 23  buildings, as well as the HQE (French high environmental quality) certification of the Rexel Campus, the Group HQ.

Energeasy: a full range of solutions

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