- Collaboration to accelerate the deployment of sustainable and smart energy man-agement solutions
- Complementary portfolios in medium and high-voltage technologies to provide great-er customer valueHitachi
Energy, a market and technology leader in transmission, distribution and grid automa-tion solutions, and Schneider Electric, the leader in the digital transformation of energy man-agement and automation, announced today that they have entered into a collaboration to provide greater customer value and accelerate the energy transition.
The non-exclusive collaboration will support customers’ sustainability efforts, including the decarbonization of the energy and industrial sectors. Hitachi Energy can leverage Schneider Electric’s medium-voltage portfolio, while Schneider Electric will be able to use Hitachi Ener-gy’s high-voltage portfolio to provide more comprehensive offerings.
This new collaboration builds on the trusted track record, global footprint, and extensive ex-perience of both these sustainable energy technology leaders in delivering projects for re-newables, data centers, mining and other industry segments. Both companies expect this collaborative ecosystem to ensure benefits for customers across their operational life cycle, including a more holistic offering, strengthened supply chain and enhanced efficiencies.
“We continue to innovate with technology and business models to advance a more sustaina-ble, flexible and secure energy system,” said Claudio Facchin, CEO of Hitachi Energy. ”We have chosen to collaborate with Schneider Electric by enhancing our complementary portfo-lios and address the need of faster deployment of grid solutions for our customers,” he add-ed.
“We are launching this collaboration to help our customers deploy the green electricity solu-tions instrumental in the fight against climate change,” said Jean-Pascal Tricoire, Chairman and CEO, Schneider Electric. “With Hitachi Energy, we’re committed to leveraging our re-spective strengths in order to solve our customers’ most pressing energy challenges.”
About Hitachi Energy
Hitachi Energy is a global technology leader that is advancing a sustainable energy future for all. We serve customers in the utility, industry and infrastructure sectors with innovative solu-tions and services across the value chain. Together with customers and partners, we pio-neer technologies and enable the digital transformation required to accelerate the energy transition towards a carbon-neutral future. We are advancing the world’s energy system to become more sustainable, flexible and secure whilst balancing social, environmental and economic value. Hitachi Energy has a proven track record and unparalleled installed base in more than 140 countries. Headquartered in Switzerland, we employ around 38,000 people in 90 countries and generate business volumes of approximately $10 billion USD.
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About Hitachi, Ltd.
Hitachi drives Social Innovation Business, creating a sustainable society with data and tech-nology. We will solve customers’ and society’s challenges with Lumada solutions leveraging IT, OT (Operational Technology) and products, under the business structure of Digital Sys-tems & Services, Green Energy & Mobility, Connective Industries and Automotive Systems. Driven by green, digital, and innovation, we aim for growth through collaboration with our customers. The company’s consolidated revenues for fiscal year 2021 (ended March 31, 2022) totaled 10,264.6 billions of yen (84,136 millions of U.S. dollars), with 853 consolidated subsidiaries and approximately 370,000 employees worldwide. For more information on Hi-tachi, please visit the company’s website at https://www.hitachi.com.
About Schneider Electric
Schneider’s purpose is to empower all to make the most of our energy and resources, bridg-ing progress and sustainability for all. We call this Life Is On. Our mission is to be your digi-tal partner for Sustainability and Efficiency. We drive digital transformation by integrating world-leading process and energy technologies, end-point to cloud connecting products, controls, software and services, across the entire lifecycle, enabling integrated company management, for homes, buildings, data centers, infrastructure and industries. We are the most local of global companies. We are advocates of open standards and partnership eco-systems that are passionate about our shared Meaningful Purpose, Inclusive and Empow-ered values.