Schneider Electric Launches SE Advisory Services as Global Consulting Unit

Energy technology company Schneider Electric announced the launch of SE Advisory Services, a new global consulting practice consolidating the company's sustainability, energy, and technology advisory capabilities into a single integrated offering. The practice brings together thousands of global consultants and technical specialists to advise clients on electrification, automation, digitalization, and carbon reduction.

SE Advisory Services operates across four domains: Sustainable Business and Industrial Transformation, covering transition planning, decarbonization, renewable energy, and nature-based solutions; Risk Management and Resilience, addressing energy volatility, climate risk, and cybersecurity; Resource and Asset Performance, focused on operational reliability and waste reduction; and Intelligent Software, providing AI-enabled tools to connect fragmented workflows. The practice extends Schneider Electric's advisory capabilities beyond traditional energy consulting to include software implementation and project execution.

The launch follows Schneider Electric's recent collaboration with Levi Strauss on the LEAP renewable energy program for suppliers in India and its existing role advising companies on CSRD compliance and supply chain emissions management. By consolidating advisory services under a single practice brand, Schneider Electric strengthens its commercial position against pure-play sustainability consultancies and management consulting firms that have been expanding their ESG advisory capabilities. The practice will be led by Steve Wilhite, who joined Schneider through the 2011 acquisition of Summit Energy.

The establishment of SE Advisory Services reflects the growing convergence of energy management, sustainability compliance, and digital transformation as interlinked business priorities. Companies seeking to meet science-based emissions reduction targets, comply with CSRD requirements, and manage energy cost volatility simultaneously are finding that separate advisory engagements across these domains create inefficiency and gaps. Schneider Electric's integrated approach aims to capitalize on this convergence by offering end-to-end strategy and execution services, a proposition with growing relevance for large Indian industrial and infrastructure companies navigating their own energy transition requirements.

Key figure — Thousands of global consultants integrated into SE Advisory Services