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SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
GREEN AND RESPONSIBLE GROWTH DRIVING ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE
Customers are now able to more effectively connect their smart generation: installation and equipping of solar power, wind
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sustainable development goals to tangible actions, through or hydroelectric plants, automation and control systems,
streamlined software tools and interfaces. Customers have SCADA, engineering and maintenance, and process control.
strongly validated the company’s approach, and one recent According to the International Energy Agency’s World Energy
independent analyst report identified StruxureWare software as a Outlook 2013, renewable energies could grow from 13% of total
leader, with the strongest momentum among all competitors. energy production in2011 to 18% in2035 – representing an
83% increase.
The Smart Grid
Schneider Electric serves and connects power plants and large
buildings to the electricity grid, provides equipment to turbine
Context
manufacturers and supplies the residential end-market through
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its network of partners and distributors;
The smart grid combines electricity and IT infrastructure to efficient homes and enterprise: energy efficiency products and
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integrate and inter-connect all users (producers, operators, solutions, complex solutions for integrated energy management,
marketers, consumers, etc.) in order to continue to efficiently operational and financial project management.
balance supply and demand over an increasingly complex SchneiderElectricalso offers safe recharging infrastructures for
network. electric vehicles, as well as efficient energy management
systems and high added value accompanying services.
Today’s grid is undergoing rapid change: the Fukushima tragedy
and concern over climate change have led many countries to The recharging infrastructure must be completely safe, for the
rethink their energy strategy and evolve their energy mix. user as well as for the vehicle, the building and the electricity
Renewable energy sources are enjoying rapid growth, although grid. Our range of solutions covers residential or co-owned
they remain a small share of total energy produced. Microgrids, garages, public and private car parks or roadside parking as well
electric vehicles and energy storage continue their rollout on end as rapid recharging infrastructures.
user grids. However, for an electric vehicle to be «green», the electricity
This situation makes the smart grid more essential than ever, and used for charging must also be green. Priority for charging must
is driving development of specific applications in every region. therefore be given to the periods in which energy sources with
low CO2 emissions are available. Peak periods must also be
Offerings
avoided as the electricity grid is already experiencing very high
demand for all other uses. This is why Schneider Electric is
Schneider Electric supports and connects the key domains of a developing energy management solutions adapted to grid
smart grid: on the supply side, flexible distribution and smart cycles.
generation, which covers bulk and distributed generation, Finally, the variety of charging environments, whether public or
operation of the distribution grid, and renewable energy integration; private, individual or collective, requires information and invoicing
on the demand side, efficient homes and efficient enterprise, which systems to be put in place for businesses and car service
covers residences, buildings, industrial facilitiesanddatacenters, providers;
as well as electric vehicles charging infrastructure; and finally,
balancing supply and demand, through demand-response. demand-response: consultancy and implementation of software
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and hardware platforms to share data and for load shedding
Schneider Electric offers products and solutions in all these aimed at energy operators.
domains:
flexible distribution: ADMS (Advanced Distribution Management
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System) ranked #1 in the industry by independent analysts,
control and automation of sub-stations (between high and
medium voltage and medium and low voltage networks),
SCADA (Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition), protection
and metering systems, outage management devices.
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