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Companies Urge EU to Adopt Binding 40% Energy Efficiency Target

October 23, 2014October 22, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Unilever, Philips, Schneider Electric and Siemens are among the 49 companies (see image) that have signed a letter to European Council president Herman Van Rompuy, urging the council to set a binding energy efficiency target of at least 40 percent. European Union member states will meet tomorrow and Friday to ... Read more »

Brewer Slashes Downtime 50%, Saves $400,000 with Schneider Electric Software

October 8, 2014October 7, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

New Belgium Brewing has halved its downtime and saved $400,000 annually using Schneider Electric’s Wonderware MES Performance software. The software also helped the third largest craft brewer in the US increase the efficiency of its packaging line by 30 percent, which allowed it to extend its packaging capacity to about ... Read more »

Schneider Taps LLamasoft Supply Chain Guru

June 12, 2014June 11, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Schneider Electric has selected LLamasoft Supply Chain Guru as the standard application for supply chain design throughout the company’s global enterprise. Schneider Electric, which manufactures equipment for electrical power distribution and for industrial control and automation, chose LLamasoft based on its “ecosystem of innovative technology and global support services,” according ... Read more »

Schneider Data Center Design Features Air Economizers

June 2, 2014 by Linda Hardesty

Schneider Electric announced a new approach to data center builds and expansions, formalized in its Reference Design 21, one of over 70 designs in Schneider’s Reference Design Library. The heart of this design’s flexibility and scalability lies in the new prefabricated 1200kW (600kW + 600kW) Facility Power Skids and EcoBreeze ... Read more »

Missouri Town Saves $340,000 Per Year with Energy Upgrades

May 30, 2014August 2, 2019 by Linda Hardesty

Schneider Electric completed a facility improvement project as part of an energy savings performance contract (ESPC) with the city of Kirksville, Mo. With more than $4.7 million in renovations, the project is expected to provide the city more than $340,000 in annual savings and pay for itself within a 15-year ... Read more »

FirstFuel, Schneider Use Green Button at Commercial Scale

May 29, 2014 by Linda Hardesty

In December 2013, President Obama instructed the General Services Administration (GSA) to incorporate the Green Button data standard in its energy management practices. Green Button enables energy consumers to download their energy usage data via a “Green Button” on electric utilities’ websites. In addition, the Connect My Data function of ... Read more »

Schneider, Vigilent Team for Data Center Cooling

May 21, 2014 by Leon Walker

Energy management specialist Schneider Electric and cooling management systems company Vigilent have launched Data Center Operation: Cooling Optimize, an add-on module for Schneider Electric’s data center infrastructure management product, StruxureWare for Data Centers. The enhancement uses closed loop control along with monitoring and analysis capabilities to enable data centers to automatically self-correct ... Read more »

Schneider Launches Mine Supply Chain Program

May 19, 2014May 16, 2014 by Leon Walker

Energy management specialist Schneider Electric has launched its Integrated Planning and Optimization Solution. The company says the product is designed to provide mining companies with an integrated software solution that manages their entire mining operation from resource to market and can increase productivity by up to 20 percent by finding operational efficiencies. The product ... Read more »

Schneider Electric to Develop Infrastructure in Saudi Arabia

May 15, 2014 by William Opalka

Energy management specialist Schneider Electric has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with National Grid Saudi Arabia (SA), which is responsible for the transmission of electricity in Saudi Arabia. Under the three-year agreement, the partners will develop infrastructure in the country, and the MoU will facilitate the exchange of knowledge, ... Read more »

IPKeys, Walmart, Schneider Electric Demo OpenADR 2.0b

May 14, 2014 by Linda Hardesty

A pilot project showed how OpenADR 2.0b is a standardized method for electricity providers to communicate demand response signals with each other and with their customers using a common language over any existing secure IP-based communications network. IPKeys says it concluded multi-phase pilots at PJM Interconnection, utilizing its OpenADR 2.0b ... Read more »

Better Buildings Partners Reduce Energy 2.5%

May 12, 2014August 2, 2019 by Linda Hardesty

The US Department of Energy issued a progress report on the second-year accomplishments of its Better Buildings, Better Plants Challenge at the first National Better Buildings Summit on May 8. DOE announced that in 2013, Better Buildings Challenge partners reduced the energy use of their buildings and industrial facilities by ... Read more »

Schneider Intros StruxureWare v7.4

May 7, 2014 by Linda Hardesty

Schneider Electric introduced version 7.4 of its StruxureWare Data Center Operation. As part of Schneider’s data center infrastructure management (DCIM), v7.4 will optimize colocation management, power monitoring and network management helping data center and facility managers free up power capacity, right-size physical infrastructure and integrate with existing DCIM systems. A ... Read more »

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