Annette Clayton, CEO of Schneider Electric North America, highlights the role of consumer choices and demand-side decarbonization.
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Clayton: Open energy systems drive more innovation than Tesla's model
“Well, open because it drives more innovation, and I think that's, you know, in direct contrast to Tesla's value proposition. It gives customers choice with interoperability of technologies.”
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Clayton: Hitting 1.5C target requires electrifying 500,000 homes monthly for 25 years
“We really need to electrify 500,000 homes every month for the next 25 years, and that's what it's really gonna take for us to hit our objectives, not only around one and a half degrees, but Really around, ah, how we use energy in the country.”
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Clayton: EV launches will double next year and dominate highways by 2030
“I think, 60 this year, it'll double next year and be a significant part of what's on the highways here. By 2030.”
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Clayton: Electricity is 3 to 5 times more efficient than other sources
“Electricity is the, it's the most efficient form of energy. It's three to five times more efficient than other sources,”
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Clayton: C&I Supply Chains Often Hold 11x More Carbon Than Operations
“Our commercial industrial customers are seeing that 70% often of their cost of goods sold is what they're buying, so it means, you know, they may have as much as 11 times more carbon And what they're buying than what their actual processes and what they're doi…”
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Clayton: Digitization and Efficiency Often Cut C&I Energy Usage by 30%
“And oftentimes we can see a 30% reduction in energy usage just through efficiency measures and digitization of energy usage, and that is the negawatt.”