Florence Carlot

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Partner

Florence has supported many utilities & alternative energy projects. She has gained deep experience in investment opportunity assessment and market-entry strategy.

Areas of Focus

Education

Institut Catholique des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (ICHEC) – Belgium

Master in Commercial Sciences, specializing in International Management

Past Experience

Baringa Partners

Manager

Sia Partners

Senior Consultant

Accenture

Business Analyst

Florence is a Partner based in the Brussels office and leading the “Energy & Utility” practice in Belgium. She is also an active member of the “Strategy & Organization” practice.

Florence has been working within the European energy and utilities sector for over 18 years. She has worked with several leading energy companies and utilities all over Europe , enabling large operational and strategic-change initiatives in the wholesale, generation, network and retail areas of business. Through her various experience, Florence has developed a strong understanding of the strategic challenges and decision-making processes energy companies face along their whole value chain.

Her experience has been gathered from a variety of roles in corporate strategy, investment opportunities assessment and transactions, market-entry strategy, business optimization and project management.

She is an experienced consultant who is used to balancing high-level shaping with detailed analysis to find and deliver pragmatic solutions to problems on numerous topics.

Prior to joining Arthur D. Little, Florence worked for other consultancies, mainly in the utility and energy industry. Florence holds a Commercial Sciences master’s degree from ICHEC. She is fluent in French, English, and Dutch.
In addition to her consulting career, Florence is the happy mother of two beautiful daughters.

Energy, Utilities & Resources, Energy Efficiency

The race to smart home energy management systems

Amidst the uncertainties and challenges of today’s energy market, home energy management systems (HEMS) can offer value to end users by addressing unmet needs and emerging pain points such as energy consumption optimization, automation, and affordability of energy bills, while allowing companies to diversify and/or enhance their value proposition. The latter has already motivated companies within and outside the traditional energy ecosystem to investigate the opportunity.

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Energy, Utilities & Resources

Hydrogen

While much of the focus on achieving net zero has been on green electricity, momentum is growing behind hydrogen within the energy transition, with the IEA predicting a four-fold increase in demand between now and 2040.

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Energy, Utilities & Resources, Energy Efficiency

Offshore wind & hydrogen integration

How sector coupling can support a resilient decarbonization of Europe

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Energy, Utilities & Resources, Energy Efficiency

Taking demand-side response to the household level

Florence Carlot, Carlo Stella

Within an extremely limited period and without a break, Europe — and the world as a whole — is undergoing the second consecutive major shock spanning geographies and industries. Both businesses and households alike are feeling the depths of the current energy crisis in their energy bills. However, this ongoing crisis will undoubtedly represent opportunities, too.

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Energy, Utilities & Resources

Powering India’s energy vision 2030

An integrated transformation blueprint for energy independence

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Energy, Utilities & Resources, Energy Efficiency

Energy crisis & beyond

Florence Carlot

Energy retailers have been facing unfavorable market evolutions for multiple consecutive years, triggering a first wave of bankruptcies in the industry and preventing important innovations to exploit new healthy revenue streams, among which are the required investments to accelerate the energy transition. With the current energy crisis, even major players are alarmed due to skyrocketing prices and customers faulting on their energy bills.

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Energy, Utilities & Resources, Electric Power & Energy Grids

The rise of the energy community & its lifeline to the battery

Florence Carlot, Trung Ghi

Increased consumer engagement combined with growing availability of affordable, small-scale distributed energy resources (DERs), along with legislative changes, present opportunities for local energy community (LEC) initiatives, in which consumers can actively participate in optimizing their energy bills. These initiatives can protect consumers from high and extremely volatile energy prices. Moreover, opportunities are emerging for traditional and nontraditional market players to enable and facilitate these new community models.

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Energy, Utilities & Resources, Waste, Water & Circularity

Disruption is now

Michael Kruse, Florence Carlot, Kurt Baes, Irene Macchiarelli, Daniel Monzon, Trung Ghi, Rodolfo Guzman, Carlo Stella, Chiara Loreti, Martijn Eikelenboom, Sally Menassa, Eddy Ghanem, Alexander Krug, Dr. Philipp Seidel, Dr. Michael Opitz

How decarbonization, decentralization, and digitalization transform the energy and resources sector

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Energy, Utilities & Resources, Energy Efficiency

Energy retailers’ business model

Florence Carlot, Michael Majster

Phaseout of supply generation assets such as coal, a high demand for gas in Asian markets pushing down European supply, cold weather, and the shortage of Russian gas supply together have led to record energy prices across Europe. Tensions between Ukraine and Russia will likely worsen the already dramatic situation on energy markets. The consequences are dramatic, both for retailers and consumers. On the one hand, there have been a series of electricity and gas retailer bankruptcies, as they have been unable to pass the full cost of the commodity price increase to end consumers.

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Energy, Utilities & Resources

Industrial energy management

Florence Carlot, Kurt Baes

With sustainability commitments on the horizon, how can industrial companies reach their targets cost-effectively?

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Energy, Utilities & Resources

Distributed flexibility: The next pool of value

Kurt Baes, Alexander Krug, Florence Carlot

Enabled by easier energy market access and simpler end-user solutions, distributed flexibility is the next pool of value for energy players

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Energy, Utilities & Resources

Energy retailers: Facing the toughest transition in the energy sector

Kurt Baes, Andrea Romboli, Florence Carlot

Energy retailers in Europe need to leverage an increasingly open energy ecosystem to differentiate and stay competitive

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Energy, Utilities & Resources

What’s next for TSOs?

Kurt Baes, Florence Carlot

Within the energy ecosystem, the transition towards a more sustainable future mostly materializes through rapid increases in renewable energy sources, distributed generation and energy storage at large. The increasing share of intermittent generation sources is redefining the rules of the game – roles and accountability within the energy value chain are turned upside down.

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Energy, Utilities & Resources

Flexibility services: Catch me if you can!

Kurt Baes, Florence Carlot

As utilities are exposed to bigger risks of supply-and-demand imbalance fueled by unpredictable, intermittent generation sources, they are searching for flexibility solutions to offset their open positions. In this market context, energy aggregators have emerged, and are taking an increasingly important role in optimizing electricity generation and demand volatility by providing the needed flexibility. Meanwhile, multiple traditional (integrated) utilities have developed similar demandside response (DSR) solutions and even acquired aggregators altogether.

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Energy, Utilities & Resources

Future of batteries

Kurt Baes, Michael Kolk, Florence Carlot, Adnan Merhaba, Yuma Ito

Battery technologies are central to delivering significant advances in a wide range of industries, from electric vehicles to renewable power. This has catapulted battery technology to the top of the priority list for many players, leading to a huge boom in investment, as companies try to build key positions in the market.

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Florence is a Partner based in the Brussels office and leading the “Energy & Utility” practice in Belgium. She is also an active member of the “Strategy & Organization” practice.

She is an experienced consultant who is used to balancing high-level shaping with detailed analysis to find and deliver pragmatic solutions to problems on numerous topics.