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2012 REGISTRATION DOCUMENT SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC54
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
2GREEN AND RESPONSIBLE GROWTH DRIVING ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE
2.2 Smart energy management products and solutions to help fight
climate change
Our planet is facing an unprecedented energy challenge.
Even assuming that all recently-introduced energy effi ciency
policies are implemented with full success, global primary energy
demand is still expected to increase by 35% by2035. This would
dramatically impact energy costs and energy security, competition
for resources, access to energy of societies’ poorest people,
economic growth –and of course climate change. The energy mix
is planned to evolve, with the share of renewable energy going from
13% to 18% of the total.
The corresponding increase in energy-related greenhouse gas
emissions would be 23% –when it should decrease by 27% for the
world to achieve its environmental needs.
Contributing to solving this challenge lies at the heart of Schneider
Electric’s business strategy.
Our customers –companies, citizens, governments – all want to
reduce their costs and environmental impact, constantly improving
the reliability, safety and performance of their homes, buildings, sites
and equipment.
Schneider Electric therefore provides an innovative and competitive
portfolio of products, systems, services and software to help its
customers further optimize their energy management.
Energy efficiency
Context
Energy effi ciency means using less energy for equivalent
performance or service.
Energy effi ciency saves energy, money and carbon emissions, while
contributing to energy security and creating jobs.
According to the International Energy Agency’s World Energy
Outlook 2012, energy effi ciency-related policies recently introduced
could account for close to 70% of the reduction in energy demand
that is required for the world to meet its environmental targets
in2035.
Schneider Electric is one of the fi rst companies to have taken a
strong position in support of energy effi ciency by developing effi cient
and competitive offers for all its large end-markets.
Offers
Schneider Electric promotes “active” energy effi ciency, which
consists in optimising the entire energy cycle through active energy
control products, systems, services and software.
These are mostly used to optimize the energy effi ciency of industrial
processes and to improve energy performance and comfort in
industrial facilities, commercial buildings and homes – which
together represent more than 60% of total energy demand. Since
active energy controls can help reduce energy usage by up to
30%, the impact on a country’s energy mix and energy bill is too
signifi cant to be ignored.
The Group’s offer of products, systems, services and software
consist in:
•products: dimmer switches, timers, heating and air-conditioning
control, variable speed drives, etc;
•systems: building management systems, lighting control, process
supervision;
•services: energy audits, optimisation of energy purchases,
participation in demand reduction programs, etc;
•software: data analysis, remote monitoring, integrated
management of energy fl ows over several sites, etc.
These solutions meet the standards and regulations in force in each
country where they are sold.
In particular, Schneider Electric has expanded its energy services
portfolio through strong organic and external growth.
The Group’s large customers want to manage their energy better
and therefore must better understand their energy fl ows. This
involves energy effi ciency audits, metering, monitoring and analysis
services.
T hen they want to optimise these fl ows, done using the best
purchasing policies, in order to participate in demand reduction
programs, implement energy performance contracts, and obtain
certifi cations (e.g. the new ISO 50001 international standard).
These are energy management services.
Finally, this energy management allows customers to reduce the
environmental impact of their activities and to improve their carbon
audit. This involves evaluation and carbon footprint management
services, closely linked to energy management services.
The Company’s integrated energy management solution is also
experiencing strong growth.
It involves achieving a consolidated view of energy fl ows over
various activity zones of a single site, several sites, or the whole
of a company. Understanding the fl ows means they can be
monitored and then optimised, thus improving the long-term energy
performance of the site or company.
Schneider Electric has developed an integrated offer called
EcoStruxure, combining products, systems, services and software
within a single energy management architecture.
Schneider Electric has competitive offers for energy effi ciency, as
well as for energy fl ow management of industrial processes, security
systems, data centers, and of course buildings. EcoStruxure
combines these various offers to provide the customer with a single
vision – complete supervision of their sites or their company –
through its innovative software offer, StruxureWare. Launched
in2012, StruxureWare is a powerful array of software applications
and suites that deliver energy management and process effi ciency
solutions, from the “shop” fl oor to the “top” fl oor. The software
package offer provides tools at three layers to maximize customer
effi ciency: Enterprise, Operations and Control. Whether our
customer is a senior executive seeking command of her company’s
carbon footprint or a grid operator working to ensure reliability, with