2010Annual Report - Schneider Electric CZ, s.r.o.
2010Annual Report - Schneider Electric CZ, s.r.o.
2010Annual Report - Schneider Electric CZ, s.r.o.
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SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT<br />
RESPECT FOR THE ENVIRONMENT AND FOR ETHICS, MOTORS OF ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE<br />
2 Smart energy management products and solutions to help<br />
the fight against climate change<br />
Our planet is facing an unprecedented energy challenge. By 2050,<br />
it is predicted that demand for energy will have doubled, in line with<br />
global demographic, economic and industrial growth. At the same<br />
time, experts agree that carbon emissions must be cut in half to<br />
prevent dramatic consequences due to climate change.<br />
Our customers’ expectations are also changing. <strong>Schneider</strong><br />
<strong>Electric</strong>’s customers want to reduce energy costs while making their<br />
installations safer and more reliable and improving their equipment’s<br />
performance, while respecting the environment.<br />
Using our portfolio of competitive, innovative products, our<br />
recognised expertise and our network of partners and customers,<br />
we are developing a new range of custom systems and services that<br />
are more complex and more sophisticated to meet their needs for<br />
optimised energy management.<br />
Smart grid – Intelligent networks<br />
Context<br />
The electricity grid faces several constraints. Demand for energy<br />
continues to increase, electric infrastructures are old or lacking<br />
suffi cient capacity, installations need to be more environment-friendly,<br />
and renewable energy sources are increasing but remain intermittent<br />
and dispersed.<br />
The grid must therefore be developed into an effective electric<br />
infrastructure combined with an intelligent IT infrastructure: the smart<br />
grid, ensuring continued balance between energy production and<br />
consumption.<br />
Citizens and companies are increasingly energy effi cient in terms of<br />
energy use; in terms of production, grid operators (transmission and<br />
distribution) are developing automation and control systems; and<br />
between the two, new demand-response mechanisms are being put<br />
in place: load shedding, optimal management of renewable energy<br />
sources, reduction of carbon peak, fi nancial valuation of changes in<br />
use behavior, 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 />
Significant events 2010<br />
The Group is involved in several large-scale pilot projects as part<br />
of the IDEA project (Inventer la Distribution Électrique de l’Avenir<br />
[Inventing the electrical distribution of the future]), an innovative<br />
partnership between energy and IT manufacturers, public authorities,<br />
and universities.<br />
Authorised at European level, there are three projects currently<br />
collaborating in developing and testing new technologies and new<br />
business models in real conditions.<br />
Energy efficiency<br />
Context<br />
Energy effi ciency means using less energy for equivalent performance<br />
or service.<br />
Energy effi ciency is the fastest, most economical and most effective<br />
way for governments, corporations and individuals to reduce CO2 emissions. According to the International Energy Agency (World<br />
Energy Outlook 2010), the 53% reduction in CO emissions<br />
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necessary over the next 20 years must come from more effi cient<br />
energy use.<br />
<strong>Schneider</strong> <strong>Electric</strong>’s energy effi ciency solutions are therefore ideally<br />
placed to meet this issue.<br />
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