Schneider Electric SE (Societas Europaea)[4] is a French[5][6][7] multinational company providing energy and automation digital solutions for efficiency and sustainability.[8] It addresses homes,[9] buildings,[10] data centers,[11] infrastructure and industries,[12] by combining energy technologies, real-time automation, software and services.[13] The company has operations in over 100 countries and employs 135,000+ people.[14]

Schneider Electric is a Fortune Global 500 company, publicly traded on the Euronext Exchange, and is a component of the Euro Stoxx 50 stock market index.[15] In FY2019, the company posted revenues of €27.2 billion.[16]

Schneider Electric is the parent company of Square D, APC and others. It is also a research company, investing EUR10 billion in innovation and R&D for sustainable development between 2015 and 2025.[17] The company holds 20,000 patents either active or in application worldwide and invests 5% of its annual revenue in Research and Development.[18]

The company began in 1836 as Schneider & Cie. It was ultimately renamed Schneider Electric in May 1999.

In 2021, Schneider Electric was ranked most sustainable company in the world out of 8,000 companies assessed by Corporate Knights.