March 2010

In This Issue:

Editorial Features
How Are You Doing? Monitor Energy To Improve Reliability And Efficiency

Smart Grid Demand Response: Schneider Reveals Ambitious Plans to Create Virtual Power Plants

Solutions
Total Energy Control for Healthcare Facilities

Product News
New Release EnergyView Online (EVO)

Events
When The Lights Go Out - Audio Conference for Hospitals

Training

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Welcome to the March 2010 edition of the Square D® PowerLogic® Wire, an e-newsletter from Schneider Electric offering helpful news and tips about the latest in power and energy monitoring applications and systems

Editorial
Article Featured in Plant Services magazine -
How Are You Doing? Monitor energy to improve reliability and efficiency
As facility manager for Schneider Electric's Huntington and Peru, Ind., plants, John Troyer is a busy man. He knows energy efficiency is important and his bosses have put it high on their long list of priorities, but he can't devote a lot of time to monitoring and managing it. So he's glad that it usually takes less than a minute to open and review the e-mail message his system sends him each day, summarizing consumption and highlighting anomalies. Click here to read article . . . 

Article Features Schneider Electric in Smart Grid News
Smart Grid Demand Response: Schneider Reveals Ambitious Plans to Create Virtual Power Plants - By Jesse Berst, March 30, 2010
Schneider Electric was featured in an article about their smart grid solutions and demand response Smart Grid News.

"I’ve been by before to give you early warning that French giant Schneider has ambitious and innovative plans to participate in the Smart Grid. Now it has a new initiative to create virtual power plants from commercial and industrial buildings. The program could insert the company right in the middle of the burgeoning Smart Grid demand response market." was Jesse Berst's opening statement . . .Click here to read full article . . .

Solutions
Energy Action Plans Reduce Total Energy Costs For Healtcare Facilities
Schneider Electric has helped numerous healthcare, data center, industrial and other types of facilities develop strategies to manage energy expenditures. Our dedicated energy sustainability resource center team consists of professional engineers, certified energy managers, and LEED® accredited professionals work with customers to ensure the success of their energy strategy. With the development of an Energy Action Plan tailored for each facility, we evaluate the total energy picture to identify and prioritize efficiency projects to contain costs, minimize risks and improve bottom-line performance.

For healthcare facilities, we take into consideration specific departmental functions as well as supply and demand areas of the facility operation. Our healthcare energy efficiency services include:

  • Energy Star labeling and LEED certification planning
  • Decision assistance on energy programs
  • Design and new equipment evaluations
  • Rebate and incentive recommendations
  • Power quality services
  • Electrical condition assessment and maintenance services
  • Consultation on energy monitoring

Click the links below to see several of our healthcare customers energy action recommendations as well as more information regarding Schneider Electric engineering consulting services:

Total Energy Control - Healthcare
Energy & Sustainability Consulting

Product Updates
NEW! Remote energy and emissions monitoring web hosted service

Reduce your energy spend, save money and take control of your energy costs. Are these on your TO DO list? Using our new Schneider Electric EnergyView Online (EVO) web hosted service, energy managers can now securely connect and access energy information to quickly and easily to measure the effectiveness of energy efficiency efforts. Plus, EVO lets you compare energy use from multiple facilities and provide an easy way to share reliable reporting information to all necessary parties across your enterprise.

EVO is a simple to use, energy analysis tool. It provides pre-defined energy analysis reports for viewing load profiles, usage history, and interval data in both graphical and tabular formats. And includes emissions reporting, revenue accurate bill estimation and normalization of energy information to compare similar facilities or the same facility for different time periods by square footage, units of production, or weather. With built-in automated reporting, you can schedule energy report emails on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis.

Energy View Online is a stand alone offer but also nicely complements existing comprehensive PowerLogic power management software with online energy data presentment.

Click links below for EVO demo and product pages.

EVO demo page 
EVO demo login
username:customer
password:evodemo

custom dashboard
username:demorem
password:6152873500

EVO Energy View Online

Events
Audio Conference for Hospitals and Critical Care
April 27, 2010 1:30 - 3:00 PM (Eastern)
When the Lights Go Out: Managing Your Emergency Power Supply System, Streamlining Compliance and Lowering Costs

For healthcare facility managers, guarding against a power outage is not only a matter of improving patient safety but also one of reducing financial risk. Facilities already face enormous power demands, and these demands will intensify with the adoption of new, energy-hungry technologies, such as digital patient record keeping.

This audio conference will review Joint Commission requirements for Emergency Power Supply Systems (EPSS), and how this compliance can be better served with new automated technologies. Currently, testing and inspections are performed manually, which is time-consuming, labor-intensive, and prone to human error. Automated technologies improve system reliability, streamline compliance, and help identify problems before emergencies occur.
Click here for more information and to register . . . 

Training
April
6 Regional ION Enterprise Overview (3 Day)  Minneapolis (New Hope), MN
12 PowerLogic ION Enterprise Fundamentals (4 Day) Lavergne, TN
19 PowerLogic ION Enterprise Programmer (4 Day)  Lavergne, TN
26 PowerLogic SMS Fundamentals (4 Day) Lavergne, TN
27 Power Monitoring with ION Enterprise (2 Day)  Mississauga, ON
29 ION Programmer Overview (2 Day)  Mississauga, ON
May
3 ION Meter Programmer for Utility Meter Shop Technicians (2 Day)  Lavergne, TN
3 PowerLogic ION Enterprise Fundamentals (4 Day)  Victoria, BC
10 PowerLogic ION Enterprise Administrator (4 Day)  Victoria, BC
24 PowerLogic SMS Administrator (4 Day)  Lavergne Plant, TN
Click here for more information or to register for training . . .
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