climetrics | best practices webinar jan 25, 2012

Best practices to optimize and monetize your energy and emissions analytics

Walid Robert Norris

Director

CliMetrics® Using measurement and IT to achieve sustainability goals

Agenda

Introduction to CliMetrics

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Q&A

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Mission statement

CliMetrics is a sustainability analytics software + consulting firm. The cloud-based solution provides decision-making support and reporting to enable

organizations to create business value by accelerating energy efficiency, water conservation, recycling and carbon reduction initiatives..


11 years of success and customer focus

Parent company founded in 2000

Annual turnover FY2010 – 10+ million USD

11 years of IT software and green technology consulting

Deloitte Fast 50 & 500 four years in a row (2005-2009)

NVTC Green Award for small business 2010

Global presence with 8 offices in USA, Europe and Asia


Sample client references


Public sector Private sector

CliMetrics Connect Data exchange module enabling connectivity with business software applications and sources of energy data

We help our customers accelerate business sustainability

Measure energy, carbon, water and waste

Prioritize high ROI projects

Manage and track sustainability goals

Shape new business value

Reduce operational resource costs

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Services Support Consulting Training

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CliMetrics® | Federal

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Key drivers of business sustainability in 2012


Source: McKinsey Global Survey results

Reputation management

Save energy Develop sustainable products

Retain & motivate employees

Compliance

“You cannot save energy if you cannot measure it”.

Derry City Council, Northern Ireland

Decision-making requires accurate, comprehensive and timely information

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Executive foundation

Process integration

Organizational alignment

System infrastructure

Measure

To demonstrate ROI and accelerate

results, ensure measurement is

rooted in every sustainability project


Select your goals and demonstrate unwavering focus


Energy efficiency

Emissions reductions

Reputation

Create the ‘wow’ moment


“Estimates show that we could reduce our production plant electricity bill by 70%”

“A similar company installed a water recycling unit – water bills are now ZERO”

“A company in Virginia is now making more money by recycling waste than they used to spend on dumpster services”

Defining reporting requirements

Interview & involve key stakeholders early

What are you going to measure

Build (actionable) report and dashboard mock-ups (e.g. Excel)

Request sign-off from your stakeholders


Agree and communicate metrics

How will you measure: • Energy?

• Electricity consumption?

• Water consumption?

• Natural gas?

• Greenhouse gas emissions?

What level of granularity • Monthly, weekly, daily?

• Department level? Device level?

Will you include cost or only consumption metrics?

Ensure organization-wide understanding of the metrics • Build a glossary

• Provide examples


Start small, test and optimize

Start with a pilot to build internal capacity and experience in:

Managing data sources

Setting and tracking goals

Creating actionable reports

Communicating success to stakeholders (internal & external)


Best practices in vendor selection

Before Are the goals clear and endorsed by leadership? Define the business case What will you measure? Create clear reporting requirements

During

Ease of doing business Organizational fit Training and consulting services Customer support Trial Registry reporting (e.g. CDP, GRI, EPA, etc.) Manual vs. automated data entry Goal management Organizational structure Auditability


Maintain performance = build a partnership with your provider

Quarterly review meetings – avoid ‘out of sight, out of mind’

Review goals and deliverables

Understand and influence product roadmap

Anticipate challenges


Build a roadmap that will keep up with organizational initiatives

Energy & Carbon management

Building automation systems

IT management systems

Environmental management systems

Supply chain systems

Business Intelligence

Submetering and billing systems


A quick look at the future

Real-time sub-metering enables peak-power management – further cost savings

Increasing accuracy and depth of data from utilities

A ‘Green IT’ standard to accelerate education, benchmarking and best practice sharing

People are coin-operated – organizations to link compensation to sustainability metrics


In summary

Measurement will

Galvanize the organization around your sustainability goals

Cultivate a performance based approach to sustainability in your organization

Ensure transparency and accountability

Enable you to identify and prioritize initiatives by ROI

Guide IT investments required to enable the goals


Useful resources – who should I speak to?

Internally • Web analytics or Online marketing

• Finance (e.g. new Business Intelligence system?)

Externally • Climetrics.com

• Green IT council

• Greenbiz.com

• Environmentalleader.com

• LinkedIn groups • Data Carbon: Software-Strategy-Sustainability

• Green IT Council

• Green Technology for 21st Century

• Green (and sub-groups)


Thank you


climetrics | best practices webinar jan 25, 2012

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