Schneider Electric’s Building Automation Business Unit Joins Clinton Climate Initiative

Schneider Electric and TAC, its building automation business unit, have recently joined the Clinton Climate Initiative (CCI) in a global effort to help cities around the world improve the energy efficiency of buildings and decrease greenhouse gas emissions.

Through its TAC subsidiary, Schneider Electric’s building automation business unit is a recognized innovator of building management systems and has a track record of providing building automation solutions, energy-saving retrofits, and extended services to thousands of cities around the world. It has helped cities from Anchorage to Zurich save millions of dollars in energy savings through guaranteed performance contracts.

“We will audit buildings, engineer efficiency measures, implement retrofits, provide performance guarantees of energy savings, and work on an ongoing basis with CCI to lower total system costs. We will help gain back the wasted resources while, at the same time, usher in a new era in social responsibility,”said Arne Frank, executive vice president of Schneider Electric’s building automation business unit.

Schneider Electric is the sixth world-class company selected for this global energy-efficiency building retrofit program, which is the first project of CCI’s C40 Large Cities Climate Summit. The project brings together five of the world’s largest banks, and 16 of the world’s largest cities, in a landmark program designed to reduce energy consumption in existing buildings.

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Headquartered in Palatine, Ill., the North American Operating Division of Schneider Electric had sales of $3.7 billion (U.S.) in 2006. The North American Operating Division is one of four operating divisions of Schneider Electric, headquartered in Paris, France, and markets the Square D^â, Telemecanique^â and Merlin Gerin^â brand products to customers in the United States, Canada and Mexico. In the United States, Schneider Electric is best known by its flagship Square D brand, with Telemecanique becoming increasingly known in the industrial control and automation markets and supported by many Square D distributors. For 100 years, Square D has been a market-leading brand of electrical distribution and industrial control products, systems and services. Schneider Electric is a global electrical industry leader with 2006 sales of approximately $17.2 billion (U.S.).

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