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1OVERVIEW OF THE GROUP'S STRATEGY, MARKETS AND BUSINESSES
SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC STRATEGY AND MARKET OPPORTUNITIES
Schneider Electric strategy 1.
andmarket opportunities
Schneider Electric, the global specialist in energy management with operations in over 100countries, leverages its
portfolio to make energy safe, reliable, efficient, productive and green.
While global energy demand is set to rise to support growing industrialization and urbanization, the scarcity of resources
is becoming more pressing. Everyone needs to do more with less. With available and mature technologies that can save
up to 30% of business-as-usual energy consumption, energy efficiency is a key component of this energy challenge.
Schneider Electric is the leader in energy management and a core partner of all actors in the energy supply chain to
make the efficiency economy a reality.
Our mission 1.1
Schneider Electric is a partner that provides products, solutions efficient: delivering energy efficient solutions adapted to the
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and systems for all actors of the energy supply chain to ensure specific needs of each market;
that energy is: productive: expanding the use of automation and
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connectivity, providing services throughout an installation’s life
safe: protecting people and assets;
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cycle;and
reliable: guaranteeing ultra-secure, ultra-pure and
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green: offering solutions that are environmentally friendly.
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uninterrupted power especially for critical applications;
Megatrends in our environment are creating opportunities 1.2
Three megatrends are of particular importance for Schneider attractiveness; and have a low upfront investment, because cities
Electric’s business: urbanization; digitization and industrialization. across the world need to balance their budget.
Urbanization
Schneider Electric delivers urban efficiency by bringing in
technology with tried and tested solutions and by working on the
integration of operating systems and information systems. As
cities involve many stakeholders –local and regional
Cities today contain 50% of the world’s population, consume
governments, private companies, utilities, real estate developers,
75% of global energy consumption and give off 80% of
investors,etc.– Schneider Electric drives collaboration to ensure
greenhouse gas emissions. And cities are growing: by 2050,
buy-in of all these stakeholders.
they will be home to 70% of the people in the world. Cities face
urban challenges of unprecedented scale: scarcity of resources Schneider Electric already works with more than 200cities
such as energy and water; environmental pressure and pollution; across the world, and helps provide visible benefits to cities and
aging and overloaded infrastructure; traffic congestion; their constituents:
crime,etc. up to 30% energy savings;
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All over the world, cities need to become smarter: more efficient, up to 15% reduction of water losses;
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more liveable and more sustainable. This means: up to 20% reduction of travel time and traffic delays;
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improving the efficiency of the city’s underlying urban
las well as environmental, social and economic benefits.
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infrastructures (electricity grid, gas distribution system, water
Shift in the world economic center &
distribution system, public transportation systems, public
services, commercial buildings, hospitals, homes,etc);
industrialization
becoming a better place to live, work and play;
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reducing its environmental impact – lower carbon footprint,
lNon-OECD economies represented 35% of world GDP in 2012
urban regeneration, parks and trees,etc. and should reach close to 58% by 2030. Their share of global
So what cities need today are solutions to their most acute energy demand will continue to rise –from 55% in2010 to close
pain-points that: deliver the short-term results that constituents to 65% by 2035– because of demographics, industrialization,
need; provide visible, measurable results that increase urbanization, and growing affluence.
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