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SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
2GREEN AND RESPONSIBLE GROWTH DRIVING ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE
Sustainable Cities
Context
Cities are where the world’s sustainable development battle will
be won – or lost. Cities need to ensure resource effi ciency over
the long-term as well as social inclusiveness, while providing more
effi cient urban services to their constituents.
As cities improve the effi ciency of their underlying urban systems
(electrical distribution, gas distribution, water distribution, public and
private transportation, buildings and homes, waste management),
they increase the performance of the public services they provide,
thus improving their livability and attractiveness to residents,
commuters and visitors alike.
Offerings
Our rational, hands-on approach to urban effi ciency combines
solutions to all key systems of a city, integration capabilities,
innovative fi nancing mechanisms such as performance contracting,
as well as a strong collaborative mindset, with both global players
with complementary capabilities and local players with deep
knowledge of each city’s specifi cations.
Our technology offering comprises products, systems, services
and software, backed by strong process expertise, to improve
the effi ciency of the operation and information architectures, with
all of these systems highly integrated to share important data and
ultimately add value :
•solutions for smart energy: smart grid automation, fl exible
distribution, metering management systems, integration of
renewable energy sources, real-time software suites;
•solutions for smart mobility: electric vehicle charging infrastructure
and supervision services, traffi c management systems, tolling
and congestion charging systems, multi-modal transportation
management system;
•solutions for smart water: distribution management system,
leak detection, power, control and security systems integration,
stormwater management, urban fl ooding management;
•solutions for smart buildings: energy effi ciency and security
solutions and services for high-performance buildings, home
energy management systems;
•solutions for smart public services: public safety through video
surveillance and emergency management systems, digital city
services platforms, street lighting management systems;
•solutions for smart integration: EcoStruxure integrated
architecture for power, security, IT, building and process
management systems, integrated mobility management
platform, security systems and management, intelligent weather
forecasting, energy and environment management information
systems.
Recovery service for equipment containing SF6
Since 2009, Schneider Electric has been looking to create SF6 gas
recovery processes for end-of-life products around the world. SF6
is a gas used as an insulator and/or breaker in medium voltage
devices. SF6 is an extremely powerful greenhouse gas and therefore
requires special treatment to prevent atmospheric emissions.
Schneider Electric has signifi cantly reduced its SF6 emissions during
the manufacturing of new products over the last years.
However, since the beginning of the 2000s, the fi rst devices
containing SF6 gas sold by Schneider Electric are starting to reach
their end-of-life. The objective is to develop commercial offers that
allow customers to dispose of their end-of-life devices containing
SF6 in order to completely extract the gas and recycle it.
Schneider Electric has structured and reinforced its commercial
offers around the « EoL6 » program through partnerships with
hazardous waste licensed holders and recycling companies.
At the end of 2015, 17 countries had implemented a recovery
process with a local service manager, a recovery solution (Schneider
Electric or partner), and appropriate customer tariffs: Australia and
France (since 2009), Sweden (since 2010), Germany, Austria,
Belgium, Spain and the United Kingdom (since2011), Switzerland
and New Zealand (since 2012), Ireland, the Netherlands and
Mexico (2013), Singapore and Costa Rica (2014), Italy and Turkey
(2015). The 2015 objective was achieved. In the Planet & Society
barometer , the objective of recovering 120,000 tons of CO2 for
2015-2017 has been set. At the end of 2015, 44,777tons have
already been avoided.
Norway implemented a public recovery process in 2001. SF6
recycling is a legally enforced obligation in this country and
Schneider Electric’s customers’ work with the public organizations
in charge of electrical and electronic waste recycling. This country is
not included in the indicator of the number of countries.
EoL6 is a service offer that can meet the need for timely or planned
recycling of old appliances (standalone mode) or be grouped
with an offer to upgrade ecoFitTM-type installations (replacing old
appliances with new, higher performance appliances).
The SF6 release in to the atmosphere has been taken very seriously
by Schneider Electric for many years now, from new offer design
and manufacturing to the EoL of obsolete products.
As part of its new commitments to sustainable development, on
the eve of the Paris C onference on C limate C hange (COP21),
Schneider Electric committed to proposing alternatives to the use
of SF6 gas over the next fi ve years and to phase out the use of SF6
gas in its products over the next 10 years.