AMO is pleased to announce that Schneider Electric now has ten facilities certified to the Superior Energy Performance® (SEP™) program and to ISO 50001 in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. This is the most SEP certifications achieved by a single organization to date.

Schneider Electric has doubled the number of sites earning SEP certification since announcing their first five SEP-certified facilities in October 2014. The company’s most recent SEP certifications include two Platinum level facilities in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada and Clovis, California, which improved their energy performance by more than 15% over three years. Facilities in Peru, Indiana and Columbia, South Carolina earned Gold level certification, while the Rojo Gomez, Mexico location earned Silver level certification.

Schneider Electric set up a robust energy management system, tracked the improvements in energy performance at each participating facility, and had the results independently verified by an accredited SEP Verification Body. Certification to the ISO 50001 standard for energy management systems is an integral part of the SEP certification process.

"We've found that Superior Energy Performance is a great way to drive down energy use and costs across the company," said Dennis Edwards, Schneider Electric's Energy Manager North America. "We’re extremely proud to have achieved SEP certification in ten of our facilities across North America. This milestone is proof that the SEP framework can help an organization achieve real savings through active energy management that can continue to produce results over time."

Superior Energy Performance® is a DOE-administered certification program that provides guidance, tools, and protocols for facilities that want to achieve deeper, more sustained savings from ISO 50001. SEP also complements and supports the industrial part of DOE's Better Buildings Initiative by verifying facility-level energy performance improvements and savings achieved by participants in the Better Buildings, Better Plants program. Members of the U.S. Council for Energy Efficient Manufacturing, the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), and the ANSI-ASQ National Accreditation Board developed SEP as a transparent system for certifying sustained improvements in energy performance and management practices.

Schneider Electric is a charter member of the Industrial SEP Enterprise-wide Accelerator. The Accelerator program, a part of DOE's Better Buildings Initiative, supports of the President's Climate Action Plan by engaging leaders in demonstrating specific innovative policies and approaches that will accelerate investment in energy efficiency.