Florence Carlot

Partner

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 member of the “Strategy & Organization” practice within Arthur D. Little.

Florence has been working within the European energy and utilities sector for over 10 years. She has worked with several leading energy companies and utilities in both the UK and mainland Europe, enabling large operational and strategic-change initiatives in the wholesale, network and retail areas of business. 
Her experience has been gathered from a variety of roles in investment opportunities assessment and transactions, market-entry strategy, business optimization and project management. 

Florence has developed a strong understanding of the strategic challenges and decision-making processes energy companies face along their whole value chain (generation, transmission, distribution and retail).
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.

Recent Publications

Energy crisis & beyond
Energy crisis & beyond
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.
The rise of the energy community & its lifeline to the battery
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.
Energy retailers’ business model
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.
Industrial energy management
With sustainability commitments on the horizon, how can industrial companies reach their targets cost-effectively?

Florence is a Partner based in the Brussels office and member of the “Strategy & Organization” practice within Arthur D. Little.

Florence has been working within the European energy and utilities sector for over 10 years. She has worked with several leading energy companies and utilities in both the UK and mainland Europe, enabling large operational and strategic-change initiatives in the wholesale, network and retail areas of business. 
Her experience has been gathered from a variety of roles in investment opportunities assessment and transactions, market-entry strategy, business optimization and project management. 

Florence has developed a strong understanding of the strategic challenges and decision-making processes energy companies face along their whole value chain (generation, transmission, distribution and retail).
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.

Recent Publications

Energy crisis & beyond
Energy crisis & beyond
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.
The rise of the energy community & its lifeline to the battery
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.
Energy retailers’ business model
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.
Industrial energy management
With sustainability commitments on the horizon, how can industrial companies reach their targets cost-effectively?

More About Florence
  • Institut Catholique des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (ICHEC) – Belgium
    Master in Commercial Sciences, specializing in International Management
  • Baringa Partners
    Manager
  • Sia Partners
    Senior Consultant
  • Accenture
    Business Analyst