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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Examples in 2010<br />
1] Light management in industrial sites (examples)<br />
In France:<br />
• the Evreux distribution center replaced its 3,000 T8 tubes with T5<br />
tubes with a 30% to 45% electricity saving;<br />
• sites have deployed <strong>Schneider</strong> <strong>Electric</strong>’s Lubio solution to reduce<br />
night and day voltage for external lighting. The saving is estimated<br />
at around 20%;<br />
• the majority of installations contain natural light sensors, which<br />
control lighting based on natural light. By way of example, this<br />
represents a 14% saving in one year in the MGA factory.<br />
In the Chennai factory in India, mercury vapor bulbs were replaced<br />
in warehouses, movement sensors were installed in the server room<br />
and the rest rooms, and lighting was added to each work station in<br />
the production zones. The EUR3300 investment will see a return in<br />
two to three years.<br />
2] Energy Action in the United States<br />
• The Columbia site, with more than 550 employees, is a factory<br />
which assembles smart transformers and includes engineering<br />
offi ces. A <strong>Schneider</strong> <strong>Electric</strong> building automation system<br />
was installed to reduce losses from air conditioning, heating,<br />
compressed air, and lighting with a return on investment of<br />
two years (a saving of almost EUR220,000): replacement of<br />
lighting equipment, repair of compressed air leaks, reduction of<br />
the pressure system, optimisation of the use of regulator fi lter<br />
stations, etc. ;<br />
• <strong>Schneider</strong> <strong>Electric</strong> lighting control US head offi ce in La Vergne<br />
obtained LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environment<br />
Design) certifi cation (silver program) in 2010, awarded by<br />
the US Green Building Council (USGBC). This certifi cation is<br />
awarded to buildings designed and constructed to reduce<br />
their environmental impact. The following energy management<br />
devices were installed: movement sensors, Powerlink lighting<br />
control systems, programmed based on the building’s hours<br />
of use, PowerLogic monitoring systems to establish a profi le<br />
of use for the energy consumed. The Andover Continuum<br />
building management system is used to directly monitor energy<br />
consumption and compare this with previous consumptions.<br />
Other solutions include the C-Bus lighting control network,<br />
Juno lighting products, Integrated Power and Control Solutions<br />
(IPaCS).<br />
The following actions are planned for 2011 to fulfi ll the objective of<br />
an additional 4% effi ciency saving compared to 2010:<br />
• implement centralised monitoring of consumption with remote<br />
monitoring tools in the 100 <strong>Schneider</strong> <strong>Electric</strong> sites that consume<br />
most energy (in the framework of the EEM program – see below);<br />
• continue with the energy audits and projects launched, in<br />
particular the construction of a solar plant of approximately 1<br />
MW, including more than 3,500 panels, at Smyrna in the United<br />
States, and solar charging stations for electric vehicles in Paris<br />
in France.<br />
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT<br />
SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC’S COMMITMENT TO ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE<br />
The Energy Efficiency Monitoring (EEM) program<br />
Energy Effi ciency Monitoring is a centralised energy performance<br />
monitoring program (excluding changes in temperature and<br />
production). The objective is to provide the various levels of<br />
management with a single scorecard that displays the energy<br />
performance of all sites in the scope of environmental reporting to:<br />
• accurately manage energy costs;<br />
• compare site performance to identify ineffi ciency;<br />
• help fulfi ll the Group’s environmental objectives.<br />
At the end of 2010, close to 60 of the most energy intensive factories<br />
in North America and Europe deployed EEM to accurately measure<br />
their energy consumption. The objective for 2011 is to deploy EEM<br />
in 100 factories covering at least 75% of the Group’s total energy<br />
consumption.<br />
The Green IT program<br />
Green IT is a program to reduce the energy consumption of our<br />
IT infrastructure (data centers, servers, and IT devices). It also<br />
aims to use IT solutions to reduce travel using telepresence/HD<br />
videoconferencing systems.<br />
The main objectives are:<br />
• optimise the number of data centers and their energy effi ciency<br />
using <strong>Schneider</strong> <strong>Electric</strong> products and solutions;<br />
• train all IT employees on best effi ciency and carbon practices;<br />
• ensure that more than 80% of the equipment that we buy is<br />
Energy Star qualifi ed.<br />
The following measures were implemented in 2010:<br />
• consolidation of more than 500 servers in the Saint Louis data<br />
center (United States), which should generate almost 1.5 GWh<br />
of savings in 2010;<br />
• deployment of a Green IT Playbook, which is a reference for<br />
the best practices that IT employees can use to reduce energy<br />
consumption;<br />
• leadership of a study on the typical energy consumption of a<br />
PC (covering 400 PCs) in the Latin America region, which could<br />
result in annual savings of almost 14 tons of CO 2 equivalent.<br />
2010 REGISTRATION DOCUMENT SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC 67<br />
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