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2SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC, AN ECO-CITIZEN COMPANY
Community energy services: The development of energy Microfinance: Microcredit enables people with low or irregular
services helps bring added value to the users in a community. With incomes to finance the purchase of solar lighting or individual
its range of charging equipment for the Homaya In-Diya lighting electrification for the economic development of individuals and
systems, Schneider Electric has extended its offering with solar small businesses. In 2013, Schneider Electric, in partnership with
water pumping solutions. the PAMIGA (Participatory Microfinance Group for Africa)
association, launched the "Energy and Microfinance" project in
The Villaya Water of the Sun solution, launched in 2012, is an Cameroon, Ethiopia and Tanzania. Schneider Electric provides
automatic solar water pumping system designed to provide water solutions adapted to the needs identified by microfinance
at a reasonable price to people with limited or no access to institutions (MFIs) that are members of the PAMIGA network, and
electricity. It uses an advanced ATV312 Solar variable speed drive engages its local partners (distributors, integrators, installers) to
to regulate the speed of a three-phase engine depending on the ensure the availability of affordable solutions to customers of MFIs,
energy supplied by the solar panels. Adaptable to all types of combined with high-quality service. Two types of loans are offered
pumps, surface or submerged, using the Water of the Sun solution to customers of MFIs: "lighting" credits that offer low-consumption
ensures greater system reliability, simplified plumbing and reduced solar energy lighting solutions, and "energy" credits for providing
maintenance. In 2013, several solutions were installed in India and solar solutions tailored to the needs of an income-generating
Africa as part of collective electrification projects. activity. That same year, the project was selected among 20
Training offering: For Schneider Electric, professionals must be projects selected to participate in "Forum Africa - 100 innovations
supported by training in energy management from educational for sustainable development" on the initiative of the French Ministry
institutions through to vocational and continuing education of Foreign Affairs, under the leadership of the Deputy Minister for
worldwide. In partnership with Schneider Electric Training and Development, in partnership with the French Development Agency
BipBop People, an affordable range of BipBop Education teaching (AFD).
models and teaching tools has been developed to meet the needs Micro-entrepreneurship: In India, Schneider Electric deploys an
of training organizations, particularly in emerging countries. The energy service sales model through the creation of a network of
training offering covers the management of high and low voltage battery-charging entrepreneurs for the low-consumption lighting
electrical distribution, building management, global energy system In-Diya. In2012, the network of more than 120 selected
management and process and machine management. volunteer entrepreneurs at the start of a basic electrician training
Ensure that the sustainable economic models are
program offered this rental service to more than 1,000households.
In 2013, the project partnered with Indian associations focused on
adapted to local contexts
the "Village Level Entrepreneurs" model to allow its entrepreneurs
Last mile distribution: Individual and residential products are to add a solar product distribution service to improve their income.
deployed through our distribution networks, subsidiaries, and a The program guarantees them a logistics network necessary for
number of NGOs and businesses in the sector of developing their activity and provides them with technical and entrepreneurial
access to electricity. This new system is available practically training throughout the subcontinent.
everywhere in the world. Partnerships have been set up with local
Decentralized rural electrification: Rural electrification continues
institutions and organizations to optimize deployment of the
following the success of the projects launched since 2009 in
product and to target the poorest communities. In Nigeria, a
Madagascar, Vietnam, Senegal, Egypt and Brazil. Schneider
partnership with Total Access to Solar enables us to distribute
Electric provides expertise to municipalities for defining energy
Mobiya TS120 lamps by taking advantage of the logistics,
needs, sizing electrification solutions, mobilization of local partners
after-sales service and the distribution network of their service
for installation, and training of maintenance and after-sales service
stations.
agents. The success of the electrification of a village in Nigeria in
Partnerships: In2011, Schneider Electric established a Ogun Province led to the electrification of 16 other villages in the
partnership with the Grameen Shakti organization based in same province. Schneider Electric set up off-grid solar power
Bangladesh. Schneider Electric aims to supply lighting products stations that powered community buildings and charging
and power control systems that respond to the demand from equipment. In 2013, the village of Pitti-Gare in Cameroon was
Grameen Shakti. In the middle of 2013, Schneider Electric and the equipped with a Villaya Villasol micro solar power plant that
Philippine NGO Gawad Kalinga entered into a partnership to provides electricity to a farm mill for grinding cassava and for
develop access to electricity in rural communities in the Philippines. feeding the school and health center, and charging equipment for
Combining the social expertise of the NGO and the technical and lighting and cell phones in domestic households. All micro-units
economic expertise of the BipBop program, the partnership aims are managed by an entrepreneur located within the community
to support farmers, electrify remote villages, promote the and trained by Schneider Electric to ensure maintenance and
production and intelligent management of energy for the economic viability in the long term.
"Enchanted Farms" of the association, and train and support local
entrepreneurs in the field of energy access.
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