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SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
RESPONSIBLE EXPANSION OF RENEWABLE ENERGIES DRIVING ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE
Customers are now able to more effectively connect their manufacturers and supplies the residential end-market through its
sustainable development goals to tangible actions, through network of partners and distributors;
streamlined software tools and interfaces. Customers have efficient homes and enterprise: energy efficiency products and
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strongly validated the company’s approach, and one recent solutions, complex solutions for integrated energy management,
independent analyst report identified StruxureWare software as a operational and financial project management.
leader, with the strongest momentum among all competitors. SchneiderElectricalso offers safe recharging infrastructures for
The Smart Grid
electric vehicles, as well as efficient energy management
systems and high added value accompanying services.
The recharging infrastructure must be completely safe, for the
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user as well as for the vehicle, the building and the electricity
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grid. Our range of solutions covers residential or co-owned
The smart grid combines electricity and IT infrastructure to garages, public and private car parks or roadside parking as well
integrate and inter-connect all users (producers, operators, as rapid recharging infrastructures.
marketers, consumers, etc.) in order to continue to efficiently However, for an electric vehicle to be “green”, the electricity
balance supply and demand over an increasingly complex used for charging must also be green. Priority for charging must
network. therefore be given to the periods in which energy sources with
Today’s grid is undergoing rapid change: the Fukushima tragedy low CO2 emissions are available. Peak periods must also be
has led many countries to rethink their energy strategy and evolve avoided as the electricity grid is already experiencing very high
their energy mix. Renewable energy sources are enjoying rapid demand for all other uses. This is why Schneider Electric is
growth, although they remain a small share of total energy developing energy management solutions adapted to grid
produced. Electric vehicles need greater government support to cycles.
continue their rollout. Finally, the variety of charging environments, whether public or
private, individual or collective, requires information and invoicing
This situation makes the smart grid more essential than ever, and
systems to be put in place for businesses and car service
is driving development of specific applications in every region.
providers;
Offerings
demand-response: consultancy and implementation of software
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platforms to share data and for load shedding aimed at energy
Schneider Electric supports and connects the key domains of a operators.
smart grid: on the supply side, flexible distribution and smart
Sustainable Cities
generation, which covers bulk generation, distributed generation
and renewable energy integration; on the demand side, efficient
homes and efficient enterprise, which covers homes, buildings,
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industrial facilitiesanddatacenters, as well as electric vehicles
charging infrastructure; and finally, balancing supply and demand,
through demand-response. Cities are where the world’s sustainable development battle will be
won –or lost. Cities need to ensure resource efficiency over the
Schneider Electric offers products and solutions in all these long-term as well as social inclusiveness, while providing more
domains: efficient urban services to their constituents.
flexible distribution: control and automation of sub-stations
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As cities improve the efficiency of their underlying urban systems
(between high and medium voltage and medium and low (electrical distribution, gas distribution, water distribution, public
voltage networks), SCADA (Supervisory Control And Data and private transportation, buildings and homes, waste
Acquisition), protection and metering systems, outage devices; management), they increase the performance of the public services
smart generation: installation and equipping of solar power, wind
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they provide, thus improving their livability and attractiveness to
or hydroelectric plants, automation and control systems, residents, commuters and visitors alike.
SCADA, engineering and maintenance.
Offerings
According to the International Energy Agency’s World Energy
Outlook 2012, renewable energies could grow from 13% of total Our hands-on, bottom-up approach to urban efficiency combines
energy production in2010 to 18% in2035 – representing an 83% solutions to all key systems of a city, integration capabilities,
increase. innovative financing mechanisms such as performance contracting
Schneider Electric serves and connects power plants and large as well as a strong collaborative mindset, with both global players
buildings to the electricity grid, provides equipment to turbine with complementary capabilities and local players with deep
knowledge of each city’s specifications.
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