Schneider Electric: Tackling The Broader Building Decarbonization Landscape At Scale

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Executive Summary

Buildings, and the ways in which users engage with them, leave significant environmental footprints – from the embodied carbon of materials used in construction, to everyday occupancy behaviours and building operations. Throughout its history, Schneider Electric has focused on energy management in its various guises. The firm is now positioning itself clearly around the challenge of helping businesses of all sizes, geographies and industries transform their buildings, to stepwise improve their carbon footprints and keep on track with their long-term net zero goals. Schneider Electric’s aspirations are ambitious; the world has a tough job ahead to reach lofty targets such as 85% of all buildings globally being zero-carbon-ready, and limiting global warming to just 1.5° by 2050. This report provides an overview of Schneider Electric’s strategy, and its expanding portfolio of solutions, to aid clients in their decarbonization journeys. It is one of a series of reports exploring smart building technology and service providers and their market offerings.

Table of contents

Schneider Electric is targeting the long tail of building decarbonization
Schneider Electric takes on net zero building aspirations with a holistic energy and carbon lifecycle approach
Schneider Electric invests heavily to offer a wide range of energy and decarbonization products and services
Next steps for Schneider Electric to realize its vision

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Figure 1. Schneider Electric’s strategic investments over the past five years

About the authors

Sandy Rogers

Principal Analyst
Sandy is a Principal Analyst in the Verdantix Smart Buildings practice. Her current research agenda focuses on the intersection of IT and OT digital strategies and technologies, including the IoT landscape. Sandy’s experience prior to joining Verdantix includes work as a research director and technology industry analyst in IT service technologies and operations at Forrester, and at IDC, where she covered software, vertical markets and web services. Sandy has worked in competitive research and strategy consulting at Fuld & Company and developed research for thought-leadership at Deloitte. She holds a Business Degree in Marketing and Management Science from the University of Rhode Island.

Claire Stephens

Research Director, Smart Buildings
Claire Stephens is Research Director of the Smart Buildings team. With 18 years of experience in the sector, Claire is recognized as an expert in industries that make up the built environment, in particular, corporate and commercial real estate, and workplace and sustainability technologies. At Verdantix, Claire will be digging into building technology for building owners, occupiers and investors, focusing on how to support them in reaching their ESG objectives. Prior to her arrival at Verdantix, Claire launched Asia’s first corporate real estate, green building and building technology publications. She has also delivered full lifecycle real estate consultancy services covering a broad range of asset types in industries including financial services, oil and gas, pharmaceuticals, technology, consumer goods, media, retail and hospitality.

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