India, March 10 -- Jean-Pascal Tricoire, Schneider Electric's Chairman and CEO, spoke at CERAWeek by S&P Global, the world's premier energy conference, reinforcing the importance of digitization and infrastructure investment to address our current and future energy challenges.

Joining a panel of experts for a discussion entitled, "The Electrification of Everything?", Tricoire shared his thoughts around the challenges and opportunities as we move toward the new electric future.

Jean-Pascal Tricoire said that we underestimate the change coming in the electrical system and the way it will be managed in the future. The challenge is even bigger than we described. Today, electricity is only 20% of energy consumption, but that will be 40-60% i...