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French multinational digital automation and energy management company
Schneider Electric SE is a French multinational corporation that specializes in energy technology, covering electrification, automation, and digitalization for industry and homes.
More on Wikipedia ↗Proposed British government-backed organization
Great British Grid is a proposed publicly owned entity backed by the British government that will seek to bring electrical energy distribution under greater public control and ownership. It will have access to a £4 billion investment fund that has been allocated to Great British Energy. It was announced by Prime Minister Andy Burnham in a speech at the 2026 Labour Party Conference in Liverpool.
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David Hall (Schneider Electric) comments on what Great British Grid could mean for new clean-energy generation, industrial electrification and energy transition