Schneider Electric gets CSR award for energy efficiency education in Malaysia
- Company diagnosed for instructing and promoting inexperienced power and sustainability in Malaysia
- Key to this is Energy University, a loose, web-based totally and professional stage education application
SCHNEIDER Electric has obtained a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) award for its tasks in energy performance training in Malaysia 2012 from the French Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MFCCI).
The award recognizes its continuous efforts in teaching and selling green strength and sustainability to various stakeholders in Malaysia, Schneider Electric said in a announcement.
A cornerstone of Schneider Electric’s efforts in this region is Energy University, a unfastened, internet-primarily based, and professional stage training application.
Delivered entirely on-line, Energy University publications are designed to support all people worried in the choice-making, management, making plans, design, or production of a space impacted by electricity, the organization said.
Recently, Energy University saw the mixing of Data Center University, setting records on all records center and strength efficiency guides on one internet site to similarly advantage more than one hundred twenty,000 customers.
Accepting the MFCCI award from Malaysia Minister of Defense Dato' Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi (%, left), Peter Cave (percent, proper), Malaysian u . S . President of Schneider Electric stated, “Energy University addresses essential electricity performance issues and offers methodologies for implementing secure, reliable and value effective measures which might be shared thru one hundred fifteen,000 guides in one hundred sixty five international locations and 12 languages.
“In Malaysia, the curriculum is recommended and identified by Suruhanjaya Tenaga as it is completely aligned with the countrywide schedule toward assembly its Copenhagen promise with the aid of 2020.
“Having Energy University as a resource is going a protracted manner in getting extra electrical strength managers educated in the understanding important to satisfy Suruhanjaya Tenaga’s necessities for intensive energy-ingesting industries,” Cave said.
In terms of other CSR efforts, the employer has spearheaded the Schneider Electric University Challenge designed to encourage and challenge engineering college students in Malaysia to resolve sensible strength usage problems.
Additionally, through its Luli marketing campaign, Schneider Electric employees in Malaysia donate the equivalent of hours in their profits to a charity of their desire and provide assist toward disadvantaged children in much less fortunate communities.
In the past three years, Schneider Electric employees had been helping the Monfort Youth Center under Luli, donating no longer most effective a part of their income however additionally their time and knowledge in training youngsters in efficient power management practices.