Schneider Electric enhances SME decarbonisation support with Greenly partnership

Schneider Electric has broadened its Decarbonization Champion programme for small and medium-sized enterprise partners, adding carbon-accounting software from Greenly to a package that also includes consulting, training and operational support.

The initiative is aimed at SMEs in the electrical value chain and is being presented by Schneider Electric as its first sustainability programme designed specifically for partners of that size. By combining Greenly’s emissions-tracking...

platform with Schneider Electric’s advisory services, the company says it wants to help smaller businesses move from measuring their carbon footprint to drawing up practical decarbonisation plans.

Participants in the scheme receive access to sustainability training through Schneider Electric’s learning resources, baseline emissions reporting for Scope 1 and Scope 2, strategy workshops, remote audits and guidance from SE Advisory Services. The package also includes selected decarbonisation technologies, financial incentives and co-branded recognition for partners that make progress.

Schneider Electric says the annual value of the programme for each channel partner exceeds $34,000, or more than €30,000. The company argues that this combination of digital tools and expert support is intended to remove one of the main barriers facing smaller firms: the difficulty of gathering reliable emissions data and turning it into action without adding excessive cost or administrative burden.

The move comes at a time when supply-chain emissions disclosure is becoming a more urgent commercial issue. Larger customers are increasingly asking suppliers to provide verified environmental data, while regulation is also tightening. Schneider Electric pointed to the European Union’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive and Australia’s climate-related financial disclosure regime as examples of rules that are pushing transparency further down supply chains.

For many SMEs, the pressure is twofold: they are expected to provide better sustainability information, yet often lack the internal resources to build the systems needed to do so. Schneider Electric’s answer is to pair Greenly’s measurement platform with its own advisory support, with the aim of helping partners establish emissions baselines, identify efficiency gains and create formal transition plans.

The company says early results from pilot activity in the Pacific region suggest the model can also uncover significant savings. In one case, a contractor identified more than $28,500 in annual savings opportunities after initial audits. In another, a Queensland-based manufacturer found potential annual savings of more than $178,000, linked to measures such as air-system efficiency, load shifting and equipment optimisation.

Schneider Electric has now begun rolling the programme out across its wider global partner network, which includes panel builders, contractors and system integrators. The company says the broader ambition is to support commercial partners as customer expectations and regulatory demands evolve.

Bin Lu, executive vice president for power products at Schneider Electric, said the initiative reflected the group’s wider strategy of helping partners adapt to changing market conditions. In a statement, he said the company was seeking to build capabilities that would help partners improve efficiency and accelerate decarbonisation, while creating longer-term business value.

Greenly said the partnership was designed to make emissions reduction more practical for smaller businesses. Alexis Normand, the company’s chief executive and co-founder, said many SMEs wanted to cut carbon but lacked accessible tools and guidance. He said combining software with hands-on support would make decarbonisation more measurable and more actionable across supply chains.

Source: Noah Wire Services