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PARTNERSHIPS WITH START-UPS<br />
Aster Capital, the joint <strong>Schneider</strong> <strong>Electric</strong>, Alstom<br />
and Rhodia risk-capital fund, endowed with<br />
EUR 100 million, focuses on identifying new<br />
opportunities for growth and innovation in the areas<br />
of energy and the environment. It detects emerging<br />
market and technology trends ahead of the curve<br />
and develops partnerships with promising start-up<br />
<strong>Electric</strong> vehicle<br />
Context<br />
Fully electric or hybrid vehicles are likely to undergo rapid<br />
development over the next few years and could represent 10% of<br />
vehicles sold worldwide by 2020.<br />
They are quieter and cause less pollution than petrol vehicles<br />
and are part of the solution to the energy challenge, as well as<br />
to urban policies that aim to reduce congestion and pollution in<br />
cities. Development of the electric vehicle mainly depends on the<br />
re-charging infrastructure, which must combine safety (for users,<br />
the vehicles, buildings, and the electricity grid), facility (availability<br />
of charging terminals at all times, in every location, and for all<br />
requirements), and the effective integration of the electricity grid<br />
(fi rst mobile charge in history).<br />
<strong>Schneider</strong> <strong>Electric</strong> contributes to electric vehicle development<br />
through recharging infrastructures.<br />
Offers<br />
<strong>Schneider</strong> <strong>Electric</strong>’s offers include safe recharging infrastructures,<br />
effi cient energy management systems and high added value<br />
accompanying services.<br />
The recharging infrastructure must be completely safe, fi rstly for the<br />
user but also for the vehicle, building and electricity grid. <strong>Schneider</strong><br />
<strong>Electric</strong> has developed a full range of solutions for residential or coowned<br />
garages, public and private car parks or roadside parking<br />
and for rapid recharging during a journey.<br />
However, for an electric vehicle to be “green”, the electricity used<br />
for charging must also be green. Priority for charging must therefore<br />
be given to the periods in which energy sources with low CO2 emissions are available. Peak periods must also be avoided as<br />
the electricity grid is already experiencing very high demand for<br />
all other uses. This is why <strong>Schneider</strong> <strong>Electric</strong> is developing energy<br />
management solutions adapted to grid cycles.<br />
Finally, the variety of charging environments, whether public or<br />
private, single or collective, requires information and invoicing<br />
systems to be put in place for businesses and car service providers.<br />
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT<br />
GREEN AND RESPONSIBLE GROWTH DRIVING ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE<br />
Smart grid - Intelligent networks<br />
Context<br />
The electricity grid faces several constraints. Demand for<br />
energy continues to increase, electric infrastructures are old<br />
or lacking suffi cient capacity, installations need to be more<br />
environment- friendly, and renewable energy sources are increasing<br />
but remain intermittent and dispersed.<br />
The grid must therefore be developed into an effective electric<br />
infrastructure combined with an intelligent IT infrastructure: the<br />
smart grid, ensuring continued balance between energy production<br />
and consumption.<br />
Citizens and companies are increasingly energy effi cient in terms<br />
of energy use; in terms of production, grid operators (transmission<br />
and distribution) are developing automation and control systems;<br />
and between the two, new mechanisms are being implemented:<br />
load shedding, optimal management of renewable energy sources,<br />
reduction of carbon peak, fi nancial valuation of changes in use<br />
behaviour, etc.<br />
Offers<br />
<strong>Schneider</strong> <strong>Electric</strong> offers products and solutions in all the main fi elds<br />
relating to the smart grid:<br />
• buildings, industrial sites, and residential buildings: energy<br />
effi ciency products and solutions, complex solutions for<br />
integrated energy management, operational and fi nancial project<br />
management, electric vehicle charging systems;<br />
• production of renewable energy: installation and equipping<br />
of solar, wind or hydroelectric plants, automation and control<br />
systems, SCADA (Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition),<br />
engineering and maintenance;<br />
• distribution: control and automation of sub-stations (between<br />
high and medium voltage and medium and low voltage networks),<br />
SCADA, protection and metering systems, outage devices;<br />
• demand-response: consultancy and implementation of software<br />
platforms to share data and for load shedding aimed at energy<br />
operators.<br />
Recovery service for equipment containing SF 6<br />
In the framework of its Planet & Society Barometer, <strong>Schneider</strong><br />
<strong>Electric</strong> looks to create SF gas recovery processes, for end-of- life<br />
6<br />
products in 10 countries, in Europe and in China. SF is a gas<br />
6<br />
used as an insulator in medium voltage devices. It has an elevated<br />
heat capacity and therefore requires special treatment to prevent it<br />
leaking into the atmosphere.<br />
The fi rst devices containing SF gas sold by <strong>Schneider</strong> <strong>Electric</strong><br />
6<br />
reached their end-of-life at the start of 2000. The objective is to<br />
develop commercial offers that allow customers to dispose of their<br />
end-of-life, SF containing devices, in order to completely extract<br />
6<br />
the gas and recycle it.<br />
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