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Electricity
4.0 : Powering the New Electric World | Schneider Electric
today ' s energy is either lost or wasted , so we need to make it smarter . We need to use it smarter as well as making it cleaner .”
Schneider is a global leader in the digital transformation of energy management and automation . It operates in 100 countries and employs 140,000 people .
By 2050 , the company plans to have helped its customers save around 800 million tonnes of CO2 and itself expects to be carbon neutral across all its operations in Scope 1 and 2 emissions . The company has also persuaded its top 1,000 suppliers to commit to the same target .
“ It ' s about us taking our customers , our partners and suppliers on the journey with us ,” says Smith , adding that , by 2050 , Schneider expects “ to be operating out of 150 net-zero sites globally , have an entirely electric fleet of vehicles and be operating a full net-zero supply chain ”.
46 October 2022