France's Schneider Electric received a global energy management award, for 2014, promoted by Platts, a US provider of energy, petrochemicals, metals and agriculture information, to recognize the company's contribution to energy conservation and management, its industry leadership, technology innovations, and energy solutions all over the world.

The French company has its China branch in Beijing's Economic Technological Development Area, or E-town, and Chris Hummel, Schneider's chief marketing officer, told E-times, the Area's weekly publication, that his company uses energy efficiency monitoring for all their factories and helps other companies or individuals increase the value of energy and cut emissions. He added that he is thankful for the Platts award, which clearly acknowledges their practices, and that energy efficiency is the company's "DNA".

Schneider started a global energy program, called Bipbop, back in 2011, with the idea of innovative, sustainable, outstanding operations and did research on the most advanced energy technology in its factories around the globe, then applied it in other parts of the world. By the third quarter of 2014, the company reached its targets ahead of time and cut energy consumption by 13 percent and carbon emissions in transportation by 16 percent. At the same time, it reached another goal -- increasing the income from its "Green Premium" trademark products. That income accounted for more than 70 percent of last year's total income.

Over the past 15 years, the Platts energy information network has been trying to recognize any enterprise that contributes a lot to the energy industry, and encourage them, and every year more than 200 enterprises from around the world are nominated for the award, with the best selected by a panel of scholars, lawyers, and energy ministers and regulators.

Edited by Fang Sha and Roger Bradshaw