Eurotherm site is the first Italian Zero CO2 building of the group

Committed to net-zero carbon by 2030

Making buildings carbon neutral or zero CO2 is an integral part of Schneider Electric’s sustainability goals. In fact, the group is committed to making all of its operations carbon neutral, eliminating the emissions generated directly by its activities (emissions of scope 1 and 2 defined by the GHG protocol) and reaching net zero CO2 goal by 2030; finally, the company intends to bring its entire value chain to be Net Zero CO2, thus also eliminating indirect emissions (scope 3 emissions) by 2050.

These ambitious goals were announced at the COP 25 conference.

Eurotherm are a company within the group with worldwide offices and the Guanzate office is a 2000m2 building, built in 1984, with more than 60 employees. As part of the group, the company has been providing industrial automation and process control solutions across a wide range of industries for over 50 years; a trusted partner for its customers, Eurotherm offers technologies that meet specific needs with the added value of greater efficiency and cost savings.

Saving 90 tons of CO2 per year

To achieve the zero CO2 goal, the building underwent an important energy improvement project, still in progress: the heating and cooling systems were replaced with heat pumps, the lighting was optimized to reduce energy consumption, adopting 100% high-efficiency LED lamps for outdoor lighting and 60% high-efficiency LED lamps for indoor lighting. The plants are powered exclusively by energy from renewable sources, with an energy mix guaranteed by the within the supplier contract. The complete abatement of the building’s emissions avoids the production of 90 tons of CO2 every year.

“We pay utmost attention to sustainability across all Schneider Electric and its group companies’ sites in Italy. We leverage best practice and technologies that we ourselves develop, offering our customers solutions that help them obtain high energy and operational efficiency, reducing greenhouse gas emissions.” comments Stefania Iandolo, Schneider Electric’s Sustainability Impact Leader Italy. “Eurotherm’s results give us great satisfaction and encourages us to multiply our commitment to ensure that Italy is at the forefront of the sustainability path, which we pursue with extremely ambitious objectives, such as that of achieving net-zero operational emissions from all our activities by 2030.”

In Guanzate, sustainability is also pursued with other initiatives, such as the progressive replacement of 45 company vehicles with hybrid-powered vehicles (currently 20% of the total) and the availability of charging stations for electric vehicles. These are “daily” but important choices, in line with the goal of converting the entire global corporate fleet to electric vehicles by 2025, which Schneider Electric has set by joining the EV100 initiative.

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