IHS Energy & Carbon Solution

Global organisations, especially those in high energy-use and high carbon-emitting industries, face rising energy costs today, as well as the risk of future price volatility. Executives are turning to IHS to gain insights into operational performance metrics that will enable them to conserve energy across their heavy asset base and minimise the impact of carbon emissions reporting requirements on their facilities.

The IHS Energy & Carbon Solution addresses a variety of critical challenges including:

• Energy Efficiency Management: Track and analyse energy consumption and utilisation from all sources including the physical asset level, in near real time, at a local facility or enterprise-wide.
• Cost Management: Associate asset utilisation and energy consumption to operational costs by linking to fuel and power pricing, rates and tariffs.
• Asset Performance Optimisation: Identify opportunities for performance optimisation by benchmarking performance across classes of assets at a facility, or enterprise-wide.
• Portfolio and Project Management: Generate energy improvement and carbon abatement curves to support project investment decision-making with companion tools that track project returns on investment based on actual performance.
• Carbon/Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions: Monitor and manage carbon at the asset level, providing complete emissions inventories calculations from the bottom-up. Compare current carbon emissions against those forecasted at the individual asset level, facility, or at any organisational level.
• Strategic Business Support: Configurable role-based dashboards enable tracking of key sustainability performance indicators and time-based metrics at any organisational level. Supports management of change at any business or operational level.
• Internal and External Reporting: Consolidate corporate-wide data for efficient compliance under regulatory and voluntary reporting protocols such as the Carbon Disclosure Project or US EPA’s GHG Mandatory Reporting Rule.

To learn more about how IHS can help your organisation manage critical energy and carbon challenges, email us or request information.

Effective energy and carbon management requires the ability to collect and aggregate huge volumes of data across widely dispersed facilities and many different asset types – from buildings to boilers and from HVAC systems to production equipment. IHS uses a unified approach to streamline data management, reduce the likelihood of errors and eliminate redundant data entry, driving operational efficiencies to achieve a new kind of competitive advantage.

The IHS Energy & Carbon Solution:

• Provides you with the enterprise-wide framework of consistent, complete and auditable energy and carbon data you need to prioritise risks and optimise operations
• Manages energy use and carbon emissions down to the individual asset level so you have actionable benchmark data that you can use to take corrective measures for peak performance
• Leverages your environmental compliance infrastructure to drive sustainable business growth by providing visibility and accountability at any level of your organisation – facility to business unit to global enterprise
• Tracks and monitors abatement projects at a granular or portfolio level to compare across operational facilities
• Efficiently monitors key performance indicators and time-based metrics
• Employs predictive analytics to compare asset-operating histories against estimated and forecasted performance
• Calculates and forecasts carbon footprints in relationship to production and operational plans to better manage potential impacts of changes
• Combines deep capabilities in carbon and energy management, sustainability partner services and out-of-the box integration across operations asset portfolios

To learn more about how IHS can help your organisation manage critical energy and carbon challenges, email us or request information.

For decades, our team of experts has provided EHS and Sustainability software, content and expertise to thousands of industry leaders around the world. They choose IHS because our proven ability to execute on broad, deep enterprise-level solutions gives them confidence that their Enterprise Sustainability Management business strategies will be a success.

Here is a selection of customers from various industries that have used IHS solutions to get outstanding results:

National Energy Company

• Reduced reporting time from up to four months to just a few days, with improved data quality
• Reduced environmental verification costs by 50% compared to spreadsheets
• Supported programmes that cut company's East Coast GHG emissions by 60%

Global Manufacturing Company

• Gives executive leaders dashboard visibility into goals vs. performance KPIs and energy use for better decisions
• Deployed to 26 countries within 90 days with system localisation in multiple languages
• 40% projected reduction in time spent on data entry, QC and administration

Global Natural Gas Company

• Thousands of air emission data points, formerly tracked in hundreds of spreadsheets, now in one system
• Hundreds of hours saved by reducing redundant data entry
• Raised efficiency and productivity, enabling existing staff to complete more compliance tasks, resulting in reduced consultant support
• Reduced risks and maximise trade values for cap-and-trade procedures

International Oil Company

• Set stage for GHG tracking with, for example, carbon dioxide and methane emissions reporting based on 6,370+ TDVs
• Reduced the average time required to generate a monthly air emission inventory report from eight hours to two to three minutes
• Supported certification with international industry standards including ISO 9000, ISO 14000 and OHSAS 18000

Read about results achieved by dozens of award-winning organisations at IHS SPECTRUM Excellence Awards.

Read and listen to resources from both IHS thought leaders and independent industry analysts on a variety of Energy & Carbon and other EHS&S topics.

Brochures

• EHS & Sustainability Software Solutions for Your Business and Your World
  What if you could make sustainability an integral part of your business operations?  Download this brochure to learn more about IHS, the source of EHS & Sustainability software for Enterprise Sustainability Management.
• IHS Energy & Carbon Solution™ 
  Energy use across your operations while reducing your organization’s carbon footprint?  Download this brochure to learn more how IHS can help your organization meet its business goals through Energy & Carbon solutions.

Podcast

• Process Efficiency: Leveraging Compliance Infrastructure to Optimize Assets and Costs
  This podcast details how industry leading companies can transform environmental compliance data into an engine that can generate a broad array of operational benefits.

Webinars

• Going Beyond Compliance – Best Practice Strategies for Carbon Accounting and Reporting
  PSEG, Groom Energy and IHS discuss the latest compliance and sustainability challenges and opportunities while sharing insight on how leading companies are addressing the arduous task of consolidating emissions data and reporting to meet regulatory and voluntary requirements in a multitude of formats and systems.

Whitepapers

• The Corporate Executive’s Guide to Enterprise GHG and Energy Management
  Read this complimentary paper to learn why a robust enterprise information management strategy is critical to support your organization’s overall GHG management plan and the rigorous reporting requirements of regulators, investors and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that are closely monitoring your company’s performance.