Schneider Electric joins Clinton Climate Initiative

Schneider Electric’s Building Automation Business Unit is joining the Clinton Climate Initiative (CCI), 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 provides building automation solutions, energy saving retrofits and extended services. The US Green Building’s Council estimates that commercial office buildings use 20 percent more energy on average than necessary.

“We will audit buildings, engineer efficiency measures, implement retrofits, provide performance guarantees of energy savings, 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 ushering in a new era in social responsibility,” commented Arne Frank, Executive Vice President, Schneider Electric Building Automation Business Unit.

Schneider Electric becomes the sixth world class company selected for the global Energy Efficiency Building Retrofit Program, the first project of CCI’s C40 Large Cities Climate Summit. The project brings together five of the world’s largest banks, and sixteen of the world’s largest cities, in a landmark program designed to reduce energy consumption in existing buildings.