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SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
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SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC’S COMMITMENT TOENVIRONMENTALPERFORMANCE
Action program. The Group met and in some cases exceeded
its objective of reducing energy consumption per production site
employee by 10% between 2005 and 2008.
The Planet & Society Barometer for the One program (2009-2011)
extended the monitoring of consumption to tertiary sites with
more than 300employees, including these into the objectives for
ISO14001 certifi cation of sites. The Group’s head offi ce in France
was therefore certifi ed according to the ISO14001 environmental
management standard, the EN 16001 energy management
standard in 2010 and the new ISO 50001 certifi cation in 2011. The
sites’ energy consumption is monitored on a monthly basis by the
Management Board of Global Supply Chain Management since
2010. Global Supply Chain Management is responsible for all of
the Group’s sites.
Action plans
The Energy Action program uses Schneider Electric energy
service activities to identify opportunities in key areas as HVAC,
certain equipment (such as air compressors), lighting and specifi c
industrialprocesses.
Many initiatives and awareness campaigns are implemented
internally to improve understanding of the short and long term
benefi ts of energy effi ciency. There is also a dedicated Intranet site
that provides information on progress and the results obtained as
part of Energy Action. Events and symposiums have been organised
in France, the UK, Korea, Turkey, South Africa, Singapore, and the
US for Group customers and, more widely, partners.
The program resulted in the following achievements in 2011:
•155 sites conducted formal internal audits of their energy
consumption over the last 3 years;
•around EUR3million were invested in energy effi ciency projects,
generally with a return on investment of less than three years;
•100,000 lights were replaced, 500 speed drives were used,
1,900 meters were placed in 160 sites, hundreds of sensors,
regulators, and building management systems were installed.
The business program 2012-2014 with its target of achieving an
extra 10% energy effi ciency over three years compared to 2011,
includes the following targets:
•installation of remote control tools for energy consumption and
of the Summit dashboardDView by Summit Energy for all sites
above 5,000m2;
•implementation of ISO 50001 standard for energy management
in 20 sites;
•identifi cation of opportunities to reduce energy consumption over
all sites as a result of the Energy Action audits.
Examples
Equipping buildings:
•the Hyderabad site in India has implemented an extended range
of Schneider Electric energy management solutions, installing
movement and light sensors, variable speed drives in the
hydropneumatic system, and a building management system
to control the plant temperature. All these efforts have led to
a saving of 39% on the total energy consumption of the site,
resulting in an award of fi rst prize in the General Category of the
National Energy Conservation Awards in 2011 (from the Indian
Offi ce of Energy Effi ciency);
•in Germany, 12,500 m² solar panels were installed in 2011 on the
roof of the Ratisbonne factory, representing the largest installation
of this type in the Ratisbonne region.
In Carros (France), energy effi ciency was considered during the
architectural design of the new building:
•the architect was able to commit to an annual energy consumption
limited to 40kW/m2;
•the photovoltaic panels were installed on the roof to cover almost
all the energy needs and a green roof was placed over the
connection area;
•the twin skin metal cladding was placed on the west face of the
building to reduce thermal fl ows and avoid their absorption by
the building;
•the coloured metal plates were incorporated within the walls of
the building to allow natural cooling at certain times of the night;
•water is pumped and used by the natural cooling system.
Processes: the LifeSpace Department succeeded in increasing
from 20 to 30% the reduction in its energy consumption by installing
several variable speed drives in its injection casting machines and a
cooling tower on 5 production sites in the Asia-Pacifi c zone (China,
Malaysia, Vietnam, India and UAE). The Malaysian site (CMK) alone
made total savings of EUR 17,000between April and August2011.
Energy Action in North America: the Smyrna site (Tennessee), which
manufactures medium voltage switchgears and is the technical
design centre for electrical distribution equipment, installed a
1 MW solar photovoltaic energy generating system. This dual
voltage photovoltaic installation, among the fi rst in the world, will
be used as a source of green energy and as a test laboratory for
Schneider Electric technologies. The electricity produced by the
system powers more than half the site by using sunlight as the only
energysource.
The Energy Effi ciency Monitoring (EEM) program
Energy Effi ciency Monitoring is a centralised energy performance
monitoring program (excluding changes in temperature and
production). The objective is to provide the various levels of
management with a single scorecard that displays the energy
performance of all sites in the scope of environmental reporting to:
•accurately manage energy costs;
•compare site performance to identify ineffi ciency;
•help fulfi l the Group’s environmental objectives.
At the end of 2010, close to 60 of the most energy intensive
factories in North America and Europe deployed EEM to accurately
measure their energy consumption.
Schneider Electric continued to roll out the EEM program during
2011 in its most energy intensive sites to ensure accurate
measurement of the actual reduction in energy consumption,
eliminating the effects of changes in climate and activity level from
one year to the next.