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Schneider Electric admits to scheme to overcharge government agencies Schneider Electric Buildings Americas, Inc. (Schneider Electric), a nationwide provider of electricity solutions for buildings and data centers with its principal place of business in Carrollton, Texas, will pay $11 million to resolve criminal and civil investigations relating to kickbacks and overcharges on eight federally-funded energy savings performance contracts (ESPCs), the Department of Justice announced today. Under the contracts, Schneider Electric was to install a variety of energy saving upgrades such as solar pa...

Bentley Systems, Inc. Bentley Systems, Inc., the infrastructure engineering software company, has elevated its participation in the Digital Twin Consortium by becoming a founding member. Having been a member since day one of the consortium’s launch in May of 2020, Bentley will deepen its collaboration as a founding member and become a member of its steering committee.   Defining Digital Twins One way that Bentley is helping advance the Digital Twin Consortium’s mission is through defining the terminology used to describe digital twins. Casey Mullen, distinguished architect, strate...

Schneider Electric releases report on state of European renewable energy market Our next Innovation Spotlight for this month comes from Schneider Electric, which introduces the latest edition of its intelligence report into the European renewable energy market. The European renewable energy landscape presents a range of opportunities for corporate buyers to procure renewables and meet their sustainability targets. In July of 2020, Ball Corporation, a world-leader in the packaging sector, signed two virtual power purchase agreements (PPAs) in Europe -- enough to address approximately 63% of i...

Ruggedized enclosures are meant for a factory floor and other harsh indoor environments. Schneider Electric is better known in its native Europe than in the U.S., but it's looking to change that with a $40 million project to upgrade its U.S. manufacturing resources. The company, which specializes in energy management and automation technologies for data centers, shared its plans for U.S. expansion at its Innovation Summit North America 2020, held virtually this year. Schneider also unveiled a new set of ruggedized data-center enclosures targeting the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). Desi...

We're very focussed on what we're doing and building a website that's helping people communicate in a completely different way. >> zuckerberg wanted to be the one to make facebook for everyone. literally everyone. >> zuckerberg said no to yahoo's offer as he continued to follow his vision. by this time facebook took the site off campus welcoming non students and grew to 12 million active users. zuckerberg took the next big step in 2007 opening the platform up to outside developers. and encouraging them to build apps for facebook. >> in retrospect one might say it was not a good idea to have a ...