IHS Energy & Carbon Solution

Global organizations, especially those in asset-intensive and high energy-use 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 and asset performance that will enable them to optimize energy use and minimize carbon emissions across their facilities.

The IHS Energy & Carbon Solution addresses a variety of critical challenges to help you improve your operational and sustainability performance including:

• Energy Efficiency Management: Track and analyze energy consumption and utilization from all sources including the physical asset or equipment level, in near real time, at a local facility or enterprise-wide. This enables you to gain actionable insights to reduce energy use and associated costs down to each asset.
• Cost Management: Track and manage the cost of energy consumption at the individual asset levels.  Effectively apply complex cost models that can directly leverage metered consumption values, affording you the means to compare actual bill charges against actual usage values.
• Asset Performance Optimization: Identify opportunities for performance optimization by benchmarking performance across classes of assets at a facility, or enterprise-wide.
• Forecasting and What-if Analysis: Project energy consumption forward in time based on production variables or incorporate estimated performance of future energy improvement projects. Create ‘what if’ scenarios and overlay physical changes to a system to analyze side by side performance of actual and hypothetical scenarios without impacting the ‘as built’ energy model.
• 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.  Track carbon emissions from direct or indirect sources to generate a carbon footprint inventory used in sustainability reporting. Compare current carbon emissions against those forecasted at the individual asset level, facility, or enterprise level to gain operational insight. 
• Performance Monitoring & Analysis: Gain access to actionable insight through configurable role-based dashboards that enable tracking of key sustainability performance indicators and time-based metrics at any organizational level. Effectively support management of change at any business or operational level with powerful and flexible configuration tools. 
• Internal and External Stakeholder Reporting: Consolidate corporate-wide energy and carbon data for internal and external stakeholders. This enables effective and verifiable environmental reporting to respond to regulatory, corporate compliance, and voluntary reporting protocols such as the Carbon Disclosure Project. 

IHS also provides the industry’s most comprehensive managed regulatory content and associated workflow processes to ensure compliance with environmental laws and regulations around the world. Our experts maintain and monitor in-depth information about regulations such as the U.S. Clean Air and Water Act, the European Pollutant Emission Register and Australia’s National Pollutant Inventory. IHS also specializes in monitoring and publishing online regulatory text for the U.S., Canada and Mexico.  This online regulatory content service is integrated with IHS software to facilitate the assignment and tracking of tasks at the operational level in order to drive end-to-end compliance.

To learn more about how IHS can help your organization 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 prioritize risks and optimize 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 organization – 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 organization 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 programs 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 localization 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 maximize 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 6370+ 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 organizations 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.

Research Report

• Asset Management - Building the Business Case for the Executive - Aberdeen Group
  With the uncertainty surrounding the economic recovery, manufacturing executives are compelled to make difficult decisions related to capital and operational budgets that remain very tight. Aberdeen surveyed 140 manufacturing executives to determine the best-in-class business and technology capabilities that were being adopted to address these issues.
• Enterprise Sustainability Management: Emergence of a New Paradigm
  This new study from LNS Research shares that firm's independent findings regarding the growing importance of ESM. Industry analysts look at how companies around the world are gravitating toward a unified strategy for Enterprise Sustainability Management in order to reduce risks and costs and accelerate operational excellence.

Webcast

• 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.
• Enterprise Sustainability Management - Emergence of a New Paradigm
  View this complimentary webcast to hear the results of an independent research study into the emergence of ESM. Then listen as a panel of experts discusses their first-hand experiences in helping companies from a variety of industries and regions leverage ESM into a new competitive advantage.

Whitepapers

• Real-Time Data as a Foundation to Drive Sustainability Performance
  Read this complimentary whitepaper to learn how forward-thinking executives are leveraging a bottom-up approach to information management supported by a real-time data infrastructure to lower costs, reduce risk and achieve corporate goals for sustainable operations.
• Sustainable Asset Management – Where Business Dynamics Meets Thermodynamics
  Read this complimentary report to learn about Sustainable Asset Management, and how it can help asset-based organizations achieve business benefits such as increasing return on asset, managing risk, and meeting stakeholder's expectations.
• 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.