Can Schneider Electric's Cost-Saving Energy Solutions Help Much?

In Nigeria today, any arrangement or promise of energy for all while the poor people in remote rural areas as well as some residential urban communities remain under-served is far from it. This is why a review of Schneider Electric's unveiling of its EcoStruxure solutions as the ultimate energy solutions must be evaluated along these lines.

Recently, Schneider Electric unveiled cost-saving energy solutions for Nigerian industries while calling on industries to channel their attention to current building management systems for optimum operation. 

Tunde Olumuyiwa, the Product Application Engineer, at Schneider Electric, in recent chats, stated that as the Nigerian landscape has witnessed a surge of energy cost in the past years, the need to manage energy usage and minimize costs has become paramount, therefore increasing the demand for value-adding energy solutions. 

He revealed the importance of using facility management solutions both with respect to cost-effectiveness and sustainability goals. 

He further explained the challenge of energy costs can be solved with the EcoStruxure solutions and the benefits, noting that the EcoStruxure solutions are designed to minimize energy consumption while maximizing performance management in buildings and industries' power systems.

“With the EcoStruxure Building Operation (EBO) and Power Monitoring Expert (PME), FMCGS, hospitality, manufacturing, and construction businesses can efficiently track and manage energy consumption, monitor building systems, observe energy use, combine data from all energy assets, and access real-time and past data with easy-to-use analytics from a central point.

“The EBO and PMEsolutions simultaneously solve customer-related problems- from lighting, air conditioning, plumbing and water monitoring, access, and security-EcoStruxure provides a value-added package inclusive and tailored to a customer’s specific need.”

Conclusion

While Schneider's EcoStruxure is commendable to the extent of optimizing facility energy usage and monitoring, it is far from being the way out to making energy accessible to all.

It is, at best, an ultimate choice for the corporates, not the citizenry.

What Nigeria needs most at this time is all-inclusive energy options that not only optimize energy use and efficiency but also make energy affordable and accessible.