Grid-Interactive Buildings: Schneider Electric leaders share 6 ways to maximize decarbonization and cost savings

Credit to Author: Andre Marino| Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2023 12:00:00 +0000

Buildings are a major contributor to global emissions. Innovative technologies are available today to help cost-effectively reduce their carbon footprint; however, maximizing sustainable and financial impacts requires interaction between buildings and the main power grid. We’re transitioning from a unidirectional energy delivery system to a…

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Best practices for industries seeking to lower energy bills

Credit to Author: Barbara Frei| Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2023 12:00:00 +0000

Soaring power prices are undoubtedly harming industrial operations around the world. Energy inflation has taken its toll through cost increases, contract constraints, labor shifts, and supply issues. High fuel costs have even caused some factories to curtail production or shut down altogether. And the short-term…

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Transforming data centers sustainably

Credit to Author: Mouna Essa-Egh| Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2023 13:00:00 +0000

The International Energy Agency (IEA) released a report in September 2022 about Data Centers and their transmission networks. In our increasingly digital world, data centers play a crucial role in enabling the storage and processing of vast amounts of information. The report analyses the increasing…

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Anchoring East Africa’s economic growth toward digitalization

Credit to Author: Carol Koech| Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2023 12:31:33 +0000

In the discourse of socio-economic growth in the African subcontinent, East Africa is recurringly featured because of its innate strengths and resources. The region is home to over 146 million people who share a common dream: prosperity, from Kenya, the largest economy, to Burundi, the…

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How green steel manufacturers achieve process optimization while electrifying and digitalizing operations

Credit to Author: Mo Ahmed| Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2023 12:00:00 +0000

The iron and steel industries are responsible for 9% of global CO2 emissions and are under significant pressure from governments, citizens and many customers to decarbonize their operations. For instance, leading automobile manufacturers demand that steel component suppliers provide them with green steel (steel manufactured…

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The Fab Four of Sustainability & Efficiency enhancement through Software in Process Automation

Credit to Author: Friedrich Richter| Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2023 13:00:00 +0000

Sustainability has clearly become an integral part of every business agenda. And there was no shortage of challenges for companies in this field over the last twelve months. Worldwide, an increasing number of weather-related and geopolitical events adversely affected people, businesses, and our economy. It…

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Sustainable Business Operations Come Before Data Centers

Credit to Author: Mouna Essa-Egh| Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2023 13:00:00 +0000

Big names in the IT industry are setting benchmarks and creating high standards when it comes to establishing a sustainable value chain for their sustainable business operations. Microsoft, Google, Salesforce, and Oracle, to name a few, have all incorporated the need for data transparency as…

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Software Enables Decarbonization, Not Hardware

Credit to Author: Jessica Bethune| Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2023 16:05:00 +0000

How can we make our operations more efficient? It’s a question I get asked a lot by industry leaders. As the process automation board member of German industrial association ZVEI, I’m able to speak with organizations directly – learn what’s needed to optimize their operations…

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