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2 Sustainable development

Green and responsible growth driving economic performance

Manage the efficiency of local production and consumption Context Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) are reshaping the energy landscape. Cheaper and greener, they yield massive productivity changes. Intermittent and decentralized, they imply innovative power systems designed to optimize, ensure system stability, and to finance asset implementation. They call for behavior changes, new, smart technologies, and new business models. Today, DERs could help tackle the energy challenges by creating an optimized way to access reliable, green, and resilient energy. Microgrids are the emerging energy ecosystem that provides practical answers through a local, interconnected energy system within clearly defined electrical boundaries, which incorporate loads, decentralized energy resources, battery storage, and control capabilities. Offerings Schneider Electric’s microgrid management system relies on 2 main functions: E the Microgrid Control (Microgrid Operation) is an on-premise solution that ensures grid stability and energy reliability in several scenarios (islanded partially or not, grid-tied, etc.); E the EcoStruxure ™ Microgrid Advisor is a cloud-based solution that leverages powerful analytics to optimize microgrid performance, in terms of sustainability, energy costs and productivity. Schneider Electric integrate real-time control for microgrid stability with advanced analytics into a comprehensive, scalable microgrid management system. The open solutions can be connected with Schneider Electric or third-party systems, for both new and existing infrastructures. This extends smart grids to smart buildings, creating value-added services and optimizing energy consumption, storage and local generation through powerful forecasting analytics. Schneider Electric’s Wiser systems controls, measures and monitors home energy usage, for an increased comfort and more efficient use of energy in residential homes. Schneider Electric also offers the integration of safe recharging infrastructures for electric vehicles in your home’s electrical system. Schneider Electric’s Access to Energy solutions electrify remote areas, from individual systems in homes and micro-enterprises to develop commercial and leisure activities to larger scale systems in public institutions, schools, healthcare centers and other community buildings.

Offerings Schneider Electric supports and connects the key domains of a smart grid: on the supply side, flexible distribution and smart generation, which covers bulk and distributed generation, operation of the distribution grid, and renewable energy integration; on the demand side, efficient homes and efficient enterprises, which covers homes, buildings, industrial facilities and datacenters, as well as electric vehicle charging infrastructure; and finally, balancing supply and demand, through demand-response. Schneider Electric has developed a comprehensive portfolio of solutions to monitor and control demand digitally. In addition, the company has been very active in developing microgrid solutions, which inherently bring new levels of flexibility to the grid. Schneider Electric’s innovative, advanced digital solutions and services enable utilities to operate and maintain more reliable, resilient, and efficient grids, enabling the smooth integration and management of distributed energy resources into power networks. The EcoStruxure ™ Grid architecture framework enables Schneider Electric, its partners and end-user customers to develop scalable and converged Smart Grid solutions, both for demand and supply side, from device level with connected products, at the edge with control offer for cybersecurity and microgrid management and with apps, analytics and services for operational efficiency, predictive E ADMS (Advanced Distribution Management System) for flexible distribution. An advanced network management solution with real-time monitoring, analysis, control, optimization, planning, and training all sharing a common infrastructure, data model, and user experience. Comprehensive management approach enables increasing network reliability and resiliency, improved energy efficiency through reduced energy losses, and optimized operations E Asset Performance Management solution collecting asset data and integrating them into utilities’ operation and maintenance processes. Optimized maintenance preventing failures and unscheduled downtime and extending equipment life expectancy Example of solution for grid edge solutions: E renewable power plant control systems providing integrated, real-time control systems for large-scale solar farms, wind farms and hydro plants; E renewable portfolio management with smart analytics, process monitoring and optimization, power and weather forecasting for remote operation of renewable plants; E demand-response solutions for Industries, Buildings and Residential to increase grid efficiency through end-user engagement. maintenance and situational awareness. Example of solutions for grid efficiency:

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