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Ten years ago, the business of Schneider Electric was to sell equipment to installers in ensuring a maximum level of security for users, no problem of electric shock, or fire danger. Our activity was 90 in the electromechanical industry. The explosion in demand for energy, coupled with the urgent necessity of halving CO2 emissions at the global level, has placed our company at the heart of the energy challenges of the 21st century. Before, we made products. Now, by type of customer, we provide solutions, complete and integrated, involving products and services. Their share also increased from 10 to 35 of our turnover in ten years. Our mission is to offer our customers solutions to reduce their energy bills and stay connected permanently to the new intelligent networks, "smart grids".
What were the triggers of this evolution
There was first the requirement of our customers benefit from reliable and measurable electricity. New technologies, such as the Internet, the manufacture of semiconductors or solar panels, do not tolerate the slightest variation in power and require the implementation of sophisticated technologies of energy security. Then, in the 2000s, appeared the imperative of efficiency: whether in emerging countries, faced with the explosion of their economies and to an under-capacity in generation, or the United States, where deregulation policies led underinvestment in the network. Today, I believe that we have at hand all technologies to enable the company to become effective in energy and sober words in carbon. We organized this perspective with divisions organized according to the needs of our customers, either for the supply in the computer sector, whose "data centers" are very greedy energy for the building sector, the rest of the industry or the construction of electric networks. It must be able to.
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For example
The building sector is a perfect illustration of this development. Before, we may sell catches and electric tables to distribute energy. Now, the issue is and adapt a building to human presence. After the departure of staff, an office building should get in a situation of hibernation, which allows to save during the night. During the day, control systems and sensors now installed in each room allow, if there is Sun, gradually close the blinds, turn off lights and optimizing the air conditioning. All of the levels of power (lighting, heating, air conditioning, etc.) is followed floor by floor, piece by piece, to learn the operation of the building, and understand and resolve anomalies. Observers speak for months for the development of intelligent networks, the "smart grid", but it must be understood that there will be no "smart grid" without building, without House, factory intelligent, able to communicate among themselves and with the electrical grid. In the United States, it is common for an office building to adhere to a contract for the supply of electricity at the request. Heating and air conditioning can terminate a few hours during periods of peak consumption. In return owners enjoy best rates.
What are for you the major developments to wait
We need to learn to handle the rise of renewable energy. Scattered throughout the territory, they produce randomly, while with thermal and nuclear power plants we lived so far with centralized and stable production models. These new energies require an effort of adaptation of the entire chain. Points of consumption will become intelligent and adapt to the characteristics of the electricity supplied, and it will be necessary that they erase their consumption at peak times. The electric car will bring a new challenge: mobile power consumption and a need for billing of electricity on the normal network. Finally stops at the pump. It is the full time hidden when the car is unused in the parking lot and electricity is cheaper and less carbon. Finally, all these elements will have to interact in real time to erase points and coordinate consumption and generation. With the challenge of reducing CO2 emissions, reduce energy costs for all and avoid unnecessary investments in power plants. The major developments will be waiting for attitudes and decision-making. Thinking on total lifetime investment and invest more initially in the efficiency of a building or a facility to save more energy during the life of this investment.
Are companies and public authorities willing to invest in energy efficiency
Not enough, because it is a big change, a diffuse change to affect thousands of buildings, houses and factories. This requires support of the State. But it is a smart investment, because the economies that pay. With more energy independence bonus. In theory, the obstacles are not financial. Our solutions offer a return on investment of three to seven years. Businesses will nevertheless have to learn to think differently, and, for the moment, is at the very beginning in the change of mentalities. To accelerate this change, States must play their role in implementing incentive programs. It must also be that we, industrial, know reassure our customers by offering them guarantees. This is what we are now proposing energy performance contracts: If we do not respect the performance promised, we undertake to pay penalties. These are contracts we sign routinely in other countries, particularly in the North of Europe or the United States. At Houston, for example, we are committed with the municipality to improve the performance of a set of 19 buildings, which should allow the city to save $ 1.8 million per year for fifteen years.
What do you propose to individuals
The electrical world at home will change dramatically and largely exceed the area of the meter and electric table. If, and only if it wishes, the consumer must be informed about its consumption to choose. The electrical system will greatly complement: domestic solar system, heat pump, system for charging of the cars to become greener and cheaper consumer. The user of tomorrow must be informed about its energy consumption in real time, as it is today on his telephone note. He must know or and how much it consumes to save on its Bill. It is empowering each and giving all the choices that we will change our collective efficiency.
And for the emerging countries
In Africa or India, this is primarily to provide electricity to 1.5 billion people who did not access, and, by avoiding emit more carbon. We put in place of microarrays, powered by renewable energy in villages isolated in Madagascar or India. In this country, our engineers have developed a lamp rechargeable, battery or a small photovoltaic panel. Locally produced, it can illuminate a room of 9 square metres with two times more efficient than a classic lamp.
