Schneider Electric hosted the 12 finalist teams of the seventh ‘Go Green in the City’, its international student competition to find innovative energy solutions for smart cities, in Paris. The winners of its ‘Go Green in the City 2017 initiative’ were Nimisha Gupta and Raja Jain of Team Phoenix, students of chemical engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee. The top runner-ups at the event was Team HECEnergie from France, which won the 2nd place and Team Greening from Brazil and EnergyXDuke from USA, which secured the 3rd position. The India team won the competition for their cooling solution Evacool, a low-cost earthenware cooling technology for cooling rooms. Team Phoenix’s idea came from their experience of the water-cooling properties of earthen pots, a quality long recognised in India, to help cool rooms. The
winning team was awarded an opportunity to build their career with Schneider Electric, a world VIP-style trip, visiting facilities at two destinations as well as networking opportunities with company employees and senior management.

More information on ‘Go Green in the City’ is available on the competition website, Facebook and Twitter account.

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