MVME101 With the deepening of dual-carbon practice, industrial development should not only be sustainable, but also strive to run out of green “acceleration”. Schneider Electric won 112 major awards in 2023, covering many fields such as sustainable development, innovation, and talent empowerment, fully demonstrating the high recognition of all sectors of society for its role in helping the industry accelerate the double transformation of green, low-carbon and digital, and promoting the “positive cycle” of economic and social development.
MVME101 The construction of the “ecosystem” has achieved remarkable results in sustainable development
As early as 2002, Schneider Electric incorporated sustainable development into the company’s core strategy, so far, the proportion of sustainable impact revenue has reached 73%, and has been widely recognized by global authorities, organizations and media, and has been listed on the Corporate Jazz “Global Top 100 Sustainable Companies” list for 12 consecutive years.
MVME101 Sustainability is a systematic project to create social value. While realizing its own sustainable development, Schneider Electric also actively enables ecological partners to work together to achieve win-win economic and social benefits, especially to drive upstream and downstream partners in the supply chain. With the results of the construction of the end-to-end supply chain, Schneider Electric has been listed in Gartner’s “Global Supply Chain 25 list” for eight consecutive years and climbed to the top.
MVME101 In 2021, in order to help the world’s top 1,000 suppliers reduce carbon at the operating level by 50% by 2025, Schneider Electric launched the supplier “Zero carbon Program” project, which includes 230 core suppliers in China. As of July 2023, Schneider Electric has helped its global suppliers reduce carbon emissions by an average of 20%. In 2022, Schneider Electric released the “Carbon Reduction Master” program to help more enterprises, organizations and individuals “have skills to apply” on the road to carbon reduction. For its outstanding contribution in building a green ecosystem, the “Carbon Reduction Master” project won the honor of “Low-carbon Project of the Year” by Southern Weekend in 2023. In the future, the “Carbon Reduction Master” program will continue to be upgraded to empower a wider range of ecosystem partners to become sustainable “impact creators”.
At the same time, Schneider Electric also won the top of the Southern Weekend 2023 “Chinese Enterprises Double carbon Drive List”, won the 21st Century Business Herald “Chief Climate Officer · Carbon Neutral Pioneer Enterprise” title, and as the only supplier in the real estate industry was selected in the “Excellence Index • 2024 ESG Governance Excellence” issued by the Real Estate Perspective Index. In addition, it was selected as the case of “‘ Carbon Road ‘Sustainability, Enterprise Double Carbon Action 2023” by Southern Weekend, the case of “Chief Climate Officer · Carbon Neutral Pioneer Enterprise 2023 Competitiveness Case” by 21st Century Business Herald, and the 2023 “Finance China ESG Innovation Insight Report”.
Innovation has made major breakthroughs in multiple dimensions of the engine
MVME101 Schneider Electric’s outstanding performance in sustainability is driven by continuous innovation. In fact, Schneider Electric has always taken innovation as the source of sustainable development. Under the “China Center” strategy, by focusing on the two directions of “digitalization” and “green”, Schneider Electric has continued to carry out systematic innovation in technology, operation, system and business model, and has achieved a series of achievements, and won the “2023 Outstanding Innovative Enterprise” by the Economic Observer. And Southern Weekend “2023 Innovative brand”.
MVME101 In terms of technological innovation, Schneider Electric continues to introduce innovative green products and solutions to enable industries to accelerate their transformation. At the software level, Schneider Electric’s ETAP electrical system digital twin platform won the “Smart China” Digital Pioneer Award of the Digital Business Times 2023. Schneider Electric EcoStruxure Open Automation platform was awarded “Best Practice” in the Frost & Sullivan 2023 Global Product Leadership Award and was named on the 2023 China Digital Intelligence Industry Innovation Product List. EcoStruxure Machine Expert Digital Twin software won the China Industrial Network Digital Innovation Award; EcoStruxureâ„¢ loT Industrial Internet platform won the “Innovative Product” Award from the Machinery Industry Information Research Institute; With innovative products in the power distribution system, in the 2022 China Intelligent building industry award awarded in March 2023, it won a number of “Top Ten ingenious product brands” awards such as information and Internet of Things system, building energy efficiency supervision system, building equipment management system, and building park intelligent management and control platform.
MVME101 At the hardware level, at the 19th China Electrical Industry Development Summit Forum, Schneider Electric EvoPacT HVX new generation of medium voltage intelligent vacuum circuit breaker won the top 10 digital intelligent solutions, light storage direct soft solutions and no sulfur hexafluoride (SF6-Free) medium voltage switch series won the top 10 green energy solutions. Galaxy V series UPS won the “Data Center Construction +” magazine empowered Double carbon – Green Efficiency Award, the new generation of DC series products won the sixth “Iwei Award” preferred circuit breaker.
At the same time, based on the leading digital capabilities and services, Schneider Electric won the China Industrial Control network “2022-2023 China Automation + Digital 50 brands”, 36kr “2023 Digital Innovation Advanced team”, machinery Industry Information Research Institute “Excellent Enterprise Award” and other honors.
In terms of operational innovation, Schneider Electric integrates sustainability into all aspects of its business, creating an “end-to-end green value chain” that covers green design, green procurement, green production, green delivery, and green operation and maintenance. In the past three years, Schneider Electric has reduced the overall energy consumption of its supply chain in China by 13%, and won the “Belt and Road Green Supply Chain Outstanding Case Award” of the “Belt and Road” Ecological Industry Cooperation Working Committee of the All-China Environmental Protection Federation.
In terms of business model innovation, Schneider Electric has launched full-life-cycle consulting and services to help Chinese enterprises deal with green transformation challenges such as unclear planning and poor execution. With the outstanding case of enabling Star charging, Schneider Electric won the Economic Observer’s “2023 Dry Line Award · Digital Transformation Industrial Value Leader Enterprise”.