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SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
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GREEN AND RESPONSIBLE GROWTH DRIVING ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE
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 covering all areas. The software
architecture provides tools at three layers to maximize customer
effi ciency: enterprise, operations and control. Whether our customer
is a senior executive seeking control of his or her company’s
carbon footprint or a grid operator working to ensure reliability, with
StruxureWare, Schneider Electric provides pionneering software
solutions.
Customers are now able to more effectively connect their
sustainable development goals to tangible actions, through
streamlined software tools and interfaces. Customers have strongly
validated the company’s approach, and one recent independent
analyst report identifi ed StruxureWare software as a leader, with the
strongest momentum among all competitors.
The Smart Grid
Context
The smart grid combines electricity and IT infrastructure to integrate
and inter-connect all users (producers, operators, marketing
specialists , consumers, etc.) in order to continue to effi ciently
balance supply and demand over an increasingly complex network.
Today’s grid is undergoing rapid change: the Fukushima tragedy
and concern over climate change have led many countries to
rethink their energy strategy and adjust their energy mix. Renewable
energy sources are enjoying rapid growth, although they remain a
small share of total energy produced. Microgrids, electric vehicles
and energy storage continue their rollout on end user grids.
This situation makes the smart grid more essential than ever, and is
driving development of specifi c applications in every region.
Offerings
Schneider Electric supports and connects the key domains of a
smart grid: on the supply side, fl exible distribution and smart
generation, which covers bulk and distributed generation, operation
of the distribution grid, and renewable energy integration; on the
demand side, effi cient homes and effi cient enterprises, which
covers homes , buildings, industrial facilities and datacenters, as
well as electric vehicle charging infrastructure; and fi nally, balancing
supply and demand, through demand-response.
Schneider Electric offers products and solutions in all these
domains:
•fl exible distribution: ADMS (Advanced Distribution Management
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;
•smart production: electrical equipment for solar farms, wind
farms and hydro-electric power plants, supervision control and
data acquisition (SCADA) systems, engineering, maintenance
and management of the performance of equipment, automation
of the energy production process, systems for optimal integration
of renewables into the network. The purpose of all these systems
is to improve the costs of running and operating customer
infrastructures.
According to the International Energy Agency’s World Energy
Outlook 2013, renewable energies could grow from 13% of total
energy production in 2011 to 18% in 2035 – representing an
83% increase.
Schneider Electric serves and connects power plants and large
buildings to the electricity grid, provides equipment to turbine
manufacturers and supplies the residential end-market through
its network of partners and distributors;
•microgrid, effi cient homes and enterprise: energy effi ciency
products and solutions, complex solutions for integrated energy
management, operational and fi nancial project management.
Schneider Electric has received two international awards for the
application called «StruxureWare Demand Side Operation» for
the supervision and integration of resources distributed within
connected microgrid .
SchneiderElectricalso offers safe recharging infrastructures for
electric vehicles, as well as effi cient energy management systems
and high added value accompanying services.
The recharging infrastructure must be completely safe, for the
user as well as for the vehicle, the building and the electricity grid.
Our range of solutions covers residential or co-owned garages,
public and private car parks or roadside parking as well as rapid
recharging infrastructures.
However, for an electric vehicle to be « green», the electricity
used for charging must also be green. Priority for charging must
therefore be given to the periods in which energy sources with low
CO2 emissions are available. Peak periods must also be avoided
as the electricity grid is already experiencing very high demand
for all other uses. This is why Schneider Electric is developing
energy management solutions adapted to grid cycles.
Finally, the variety of charging environments, whether public or
private, individual or collective, requires information and invoicing
systems to be put in place for businesses and car service
providers;
•demand-response: consultancy and implementation of software
and hardware platforms to share data and for load shedding
aimed at energy operators;
•storage: energy storage systems which can be applied to grid
services (operating reserves, integration of renewable energies,
etc.) and the Ecoblade battery solution for electrical grids , data
centers, commercial and residential buildings. A solution to
empower energy consumers and producers to shift their usage
over time.