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• Schneider Electric executives address how energy tech and policy can unlock U.S. opportunity amid rising demand from AI, electrification, and industrial growth
• Company unveils new report showing automation and digital intelligence innovations can provide smart charging that's 10X cheaper than traditional grid upgrades

WASHINGTON, April 14, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Schneider Electric, a global energy technology leader, is participating in Semafor World Economy (April 13-17) in Washington, D.C. As influential policymakers and business leaders convene in the U.S. capital for the event, Schneider Electric is collaborating with private and public stakeholders by bringing a delegation of company leaders, new research and a call to action to strengthen grid reliability and resiliency amid unprecedented domestic energy demand from AI, electrification, and industrial growth.

At Innovation Summit North America 2025, the company called for public and private partnerships to address the widening "time to power" gap after Schneider Electric's Research Institute released a report anticipating that the U.S. must add 1,000–2,000 terawatt hours (TWh) of electricity per decade to meet demand from AI computing, manufacturing and electrification (one TWh powers about 90,000 homes for a year). On the heels of that report, the company is leveraging Semafor World Economy to urge the adoption of both favorable policies and energy technologies available today to improve time to power.

"As we gather for Semafor World Economy 2026, there's broad agreement that the defining constraint on U.S. economic growth now is 'time to power,'" said Aamir Paul, President, North America Operations, Schneider Electric. "It is also abundantly clear that powering the United States' energy future requires the advancement of innovative energy technology and an urgent shift in how we manage energy. We know that through combining onsite power with AI-enabled automation and digital intelligence, we can strengthen the grid and affordably accelerate our speed to power AI without sacrificing energy resiliency or affordability."

Advancing Energy Tech at Semafor World Economy 2026

Throughout the week, Schneider Electric executives will outline policies and energy innovations that can help improve our time to power AI and unlock opportunity in the U.S. Engagements and activations include, but are not limited to:

• Aamir Paul, President of North America Operations, will participate in the Semafor World Economy AI's Next Chapter track on Tuesday, April 14. His on-stage interview will take place at 10:40 a.m. ET.
  
  
  
  
• Schneider Electric Research Institute unveiled a new report titled Grid Relief from Smart Buildings. It explores how smart charging alleviates local electrical infrastructure bottlenecks and helps avoid costly grid upgrades. Key findings indicate that combining building automation and smart management of distributed energy resources (DERs) advances the most effective grid resilience approach. Critically, the paper reveals that deploying energy technologies that enable smart charging can be up to 10 times cheaper than traditional grid upgrades.
  
  
  
  
• Schneider Electric and Information Technology Industry Council (ITI) will co-host a Time to Power dinner on Tuesday, April 15, featuring key energy and tech policy stakeholders, AI developers, and industrial leaders to discuss strategies and policies needed to align energy, AI, and industry.
  
  
  
  
• Company executives Aamir Paul (President, North America Operations), Manish Kumar (Executive Vice President, Secure Power and Data Center Business), Chris Collins (Senior Vice President, Digital Buildings) Guillaume Le Gouic (Senior Vice President, Power Systems), Vincent Petit (Senior Vice President, Climate and Energy Transition Research), and Michele Hix (Vice President, Strategic Customers) will be available to discuss how the company is helping the improve 'time to power' as the leading Energy Technology Partner in the U.S.

About Schneider Electric 

Schneider Electric is a global energy technology leader, driving efficiency and sustainability by electrifying, automating, and digitalizing industries, businesses, and homes. Its technologies enable buildings, data centers, factories, infrastructure, and grids to operate as open, interconnected ecosystems, enhancing performance, resilience, and sustainability. The portfolio includes intelligent devices, software-defined architectures, AI-powered systems, digital services, and expert advisory.

With 160,000 employees and one million partners in over 100 countries, Schneider Electric is consistently ranked among the world's most sustainable companies.

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• Longstanding partners win prestigious award for their work to deploy an innovative modular data centre at The Pirbright Institute – future proofing computing capacity
• Delivered ahead of its 12-week schedule, the system meets the Institutes requirement for a scalable, resilient, and energy efficient infrastructure – allowing it to accelerate ground-breaking scientific collaboration and compete for new projects

LONDON, May 28, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Schneider Electric™, the global leader in energy management and automation, has won the 'Data Centre Consolidation/Upgrade Project of the Year' category at the DCS Awards 2025, alongside its longstanding EcoXpert Partner, Advanced Power Technology (APT).

Together, the company's deployed a new modular data centre at The Pirbright Institute, enabling it to stay abreast of new technological advancements, including artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC), and fast track its scientific and viral research programmes. The new 'Containerised Data Centre (CDC)' met the Institute's requirement for a scalable, resilient, flexible, and energy efficient infrastructure system that would ensure the highest levels of availability and continuity.

"We are delighted to accept this award, which reflects our continued commitments to efficiency, innovation, and partner collaboration in the digital infrastructure sector," said Mark Yeeles, Vice President, Secure Power Division, Schneider Electric UK and Ireland. "This award further vindicates the role of data centres as the fourth utility and a vital part of life science research, and we're glad to be recognised alongside our trusted partners at APT for our work together at The Pirbright Institute."

"We're proud to be recognised by the DCS Awards for our work to develop a new modular data centre at The Pirbright Institute, in partnership with Schneider Electric," said John Andrew, Solution Architect, Advanced Power Technology. "The new containerised facility provides Pirbright with a secure, flexible and scalable solution – enabling its users to conduct world-leading research, while supporting future technology evolutions."

Future proofing research

The Pirbright Institute is at the forefront of global viral research, operating as one of the UK's leading virus diagnostics and surveillance centres. As a world-leading centre of excellence it conducts research into the control and surveillance of virus diseases of farm animals, and viruses that spread from animals to humans.

In recent years, it has undergone significant digital transformation, and as part of that process, leveraged an advanced data centre solution from APT and Schneider Electric to enable new levels of scientific collaboration – all while adhering to strict data sovereignty, storage, resiliency, and security standards.

Due to the mission-critical nature of its research, and the need to provide continuity of service during any modernisation projects, the Institute had to identify a new strategy to build out its infrastructure to support future technological requirements for HPC and AI.

First seeking a strategy to modernise its legacy IT and comms rooms and deploy them away from its existing buildings, it began to explore the benefits of a containerised data centre and engaged with APT to design and specify its new critical infrastructure system.

As such, the Institute's new 'Containerised Data Centre (CDC)' uses key components from Schneider Electric's EcoStruxureä for Data Centres solutions portfolio, enabling APT to pre-configure its design and pre-test the solution off-site for faster deployment. The project was delivered in three phases and within a strict timeline of 12-weeks, ensuring minimal impact on the Institute's business and critical applications. 

With the containerised system at its core, Pirbright's infrastructure is future-proofed for new evolutions in high-tech research equipment such as sequencers, and diamond-light processes for virus analysis that can generate data sets of 700GB each. In turn, this allows them to leverage new advancements in HPC, AI and GPU-powered computing, enabling them to identify breakthroughs in viral research at a far faster rate.

The approach has allowed The Pirbright Institute to bring its IT infrastructure in line with its development plans, ensuring it retains its place as the UK's foremost centre of excellence in research and surveillance of viral diseases.

Furthermore, it has the flexibility and capacity to support scientists and researchers as they leverage state-of-the-art laboratories, and the specialised requirements of high-tech virology, HPC, and the vast data it produces – enabling it to further fast-track its knowledge and contributions to global health and welfare for animals with a solid IT foundation on which to develop ground-breaking research for decades to come.

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About Schneider Electric

Schneider's purpose is to create Impact by empowering all to make the most of our energy and resources, bridging progress and sustainability for all. At Schneider, we call this Life Is On.

Our mission is to be the trusted partner in Sustainability and Efficiency.

We are a global industrial technology leader bringing world-leading expertise in electrification, automation and digitalization to smart industries, resilient infrastructure, future-proof data centers, intelligent buildings, and intuitive homes. Anchored by our deep domain expertise, we provide integrated end-to-end lifecycle AI enabled Industrial IoT solutions with connected products, automation, software and services, delivering digital twins to enable profitable growth for our customers.

We are a people company with an ecosystem of 150,000 colleagues and more than a million partners operating in over 100 countries to ensure proximity to our customers and stakeholders. We embrace diversity and inclusion in everything we do, guided by our meaningful purpose of a sustainable future for all.

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