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French connection for energy
By Li Fangfang (China Daily)
Updated: 2008-05-12 10:21 Firstly the company has to audit the energy consumption of its customer, then frame a tailored power solution and help the customer carry it out. Lastly it provides a long-term service to improve and guarantee the energy saving effect through management. Schneider Electric is now helping French retailer Carrefour to be the first energy efficient super market model in China. The Ministry of Commerce has required Carrefour to reduce the energy consumption of its new stores to 20 percent less than the existing stores. And Carrefour came to Schneider for a solution. "We have successfully helped Carrefour set up two green flagship stores which save around 20 percent of total energy consumption, one in Beijing and the other in Wuhan, capital of Hubei province," says Yang Xuefeng, strategic planning manager of Schneider Electric China. Moreover, Schneider will further cooperate with Carrefour's new stores to guarantee its 20 percent energy-saving target, as well as improve the energy expenditures in its old stores by at least 15 percent. Carrefour has more than 100 stores across China and opens 15 to 20 super markets per year. Another successful case is Shuozhou Anjialing Coal Washery, a State-owned energy consumer in Shanxi province, China's largest coal producing region. After four of the company's engineers' audited its power distribution system for four days, it designed a solution to optimize the facility's capacitor and improve the output of the power distribution equipment. The result is that Schneider helped the coal washery save 12 million kWh per year, valued at 4.5 million yuan ($644,348.35). "In the industrial and infrastructure facilities field, improving equipment, 10 to 20 percent of the energy consumption can be saved," says Yang. "In big- and medium-sized commercial buildings our solutions for heating, ventilating and air conditioning, lighting and intelligent building systems can lower energy use by 30 percent," says Yang. "Furthermore, our solutions help the residential housing and small commercial buildings cut 10 to 40 percent of their electricity usage," he adds. The energy solution business accounts for 10 percent of Schneider's Electric operations in China and is becoming more important for the company, says Girard. "And we believe that our solution business will double in the coming year in China," says Girard. (For more biz stories, please visit Industries)
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