Energy & Carbon Management
Is your firm impacted by growing energy costs, oil price volatility and carbon regulations? Do you need to adopt a more strategic approach to energy and carbon management? Verdantix conducts authoritative research on all aspects of energy and carbon management to provide you with best practices frameworks, supplier assessments and insight into technology benefits. We help energy leaders, heads of real estate and facilities directors around the world make the right decisions on energy and carbon.
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View details »Focus: What JP Morgan's Climate Care Acquisition Means
On March 26, 2008 JP Morgan announced the acquisition of UK-based Climate Care for an undisclosed sum. The 40-strong Climate Care team will become part of JP Morgan's Environmental Markets team with a decision to be made in the future about the Climate Care brand. The rationale for the deal includes investing in large-scale emissions reduction, supporting the voluntary market and strengthening JP Morgan's commodity business. But what does the acquisition mean for other carbon markets players? View full Report details »
Published: 28 March 2008
Autodesk & Granta Design Partner For Green Design Software
This report helps product managers and sustainability executives involved in the development of products in their organization identify new software to achieve sustainable design objectives. In the past five years regulators, supply chain partners and end users have put increasing pressure on firms to address the environmental impact of their products. In response to this demand, on March 22, 2011 computer-aided design (CAD) software firm Autodesk launched its Eco Materials Adviser software. View full Report details »
Published: 21 April 2011
Best Practices For Carbon Management
Economy-wide emissions targets set under the Kyoto Protocol have existed for decades. Greenhouse gas reporting regimes like the EU Emissions Trading Scheme have existed for over 5 years. Back in 2007, hundreds of CEOs launched a frenzy of carbon footprinting projects. Despite this long timeline, very few examples exist of firms with carbon management strategies that actually reduce CO2 emissions. View full Report details »
Published: 12 February 2010
Best Practices Selecting Carbon & Energy Software
This report provides sustainability and energy leaders with a framework to save time and reduce risk in selecting carbon and energy management software. Prior Verdantix research has found that rising energy costs, price volatility, environmental regulation, stakeholder pressure, and internal pressures drive firms to purchase carbon and energy management software, but individuals in energy and sustainability roles often lack experience in selecting enterprise software. View full Report details »
Published: 10 March 2011
Business Case For Carbon Management Software
This report helps individuals in energy, carbon, finance and IT roles to understand the business case for carbon management software. Firms face increasing scrutiny of their energy usage due to higher prices, GHG reporting legislation and CEO commitments to cut CO2 emissions. But most firms lack a system for secure, auditable energy and carbon data management and analysis. View full Report details »
Published: 04 August 2009
Buyers' Guide To Energy Management Software
This report provides energy directors, facilities directors, finance directors and VPs of sustainability with independent analysis of the energy management software market. Verdantix selected this subject for detailed study because buyers must choose from a dizzying array of software applications to help them manage energy use within their organization. To better understand this topic we interviewed 16 energy management experts and surveyed 72 energy management software suppliers. View full Report details »
Published: 30 September 2011
C3 Unveils Vision For Enterprise Energy Management
This report provides CEOs, VPs of strategy and VPs of product development with independent analysis of the official launch of C3’s energy management application on August 11, 2011. Co-founded by Tom Siebel and Patricia House, C3 has operated in stealth since 2008. Verdantix spoke with Patricia House, SVP Strategy, and Chris Stauber, VP Products, to find out more about C3 and its software platform. View full Report details »
Published: 26 August 2011
CA Technologies & Capgemini Launch Sustainability BPO
On February 8, 2011, CA Technologies and Capgemini announced a new global partnership which provides a new energy, carbon and sustainability managed service offering. This partnership will see Capgemini combining its already expansive BPO offering with CA Technologies leading software; Capgemini UK will be the first customer of this service. View full Report details »
Published: 08 February 2011
Carbon Management Software Market Explodes
Software applications to help organizations better measure, analyse and manage their greenhouse gas emissions have been available for over 5 years but recently exploded into life as blue-chip investors and billionaire entrepreneurs entered the market. Five unstoppable mega-trends will turn this fledgling market into a multi-billion dollar eco-system by 2020. View full Report details »
Published: 05 June 2009
Carbon Strategy Benchmark: Internet Sector
This report provides sustainability leaders with independent analysis of carbon data disclosures, reduction targets and energy strategies for the 14 largest global internet and social networking firms. Verdantix selected this subject for a detailed study to help industry players conduct peer group comparisons, understand sector trends and to steer future target setting plans. View full Report details »
Published: 08 September 2011
Carbon Strategy Benchmark: IT Services Sector
This report provides sustainability leaders with independent analysis of carbon data disclosures, reduction targets and strategies for the 14 largest global IT systems integrators. Verdantix selected this subject for a detailed study to help industry players conduct peer group comparisons, understand sector trends and to steer future target setting plans. View full Report details »
Published: 02 June 2011
Cisco & Schneider Target Building Energy Optimization
On July 11, 2011, Cisco and Schneider Electric announced a systems integration partnership focused on building energy management. Verdantix selected this subject for a detailed study because this partnership reflects the trend in the energy services market towards a more integrated energy management offering. View full Report details »
Published: 21 July 2011
EDF Energy Unlocks Energy Services Opportunities
On May 27, 2011, EDF Energy announced an innovative energy contract bundling energy supply and services for Morrisons supermarket, guaranteeing £1 million ($1.6 million) of savings annually. This deal signals a step change in the energy services market because this is the first time that energy management contracts including guaranteed savings have been bundled with energy supply contracts in the UK. View full Report details »
Published: 10 August 2011
Enecore Carbon: CDM Shake-Out Survivor
Founded in 2006, Enecore is a Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) consulting firm with offices in Beijing and London. By aligning its professional services with the needs of European carbon credit compliance buyers like RWE and Nuon, avoiding negative financial impacts from carbon credit price volatility and diversifying its revenue streams, Enecore has emerged as a survivor from the brutal market shake-out. View full Report details »
Published: 13 March 2009
Enviance & CH2M HILL Partner For GHG Solutions
Enviance and CH2M HILL partnered to accelerate the delivery of GHG solutions. This partnership responds to market demands triggered by state-level regulations on GHG reporting. Verdantix believes that customers will benefit from the combination of Enviance’s proven software-as-a-service platform with CH2M HILL’s market leading implementation support. The hosted solution is more cost-effective than licensing an enterprise application. View full Report details »
Published: 19 March 2009
Focus: Arreon Carbon And CDM In China
Arreon Carbon is a carbon credit developer focused on Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) opportunities in the Chinese market. This report provides a detailed assessment of the Arreon Carbon business, explains the CDM value network, digs into the core capabilities of this carbon credit developer and points to the future of the industry. View full Report details »
Published: 30 August 2008
Focus: The FSA Identifies Emissions Trading Risks
On March 31, 2008 the Financial Services Authority’s Commodities Group published a report assessing the risks associated with trading in the emissions market. The FSA identifies unique risks in emissions trading due to the political basis of the market and the lack of an underlying trade-able physical commodity. What are the specific risks that emissions market participants need to be aware of and what does the FSA risk assessment mean for the market? View full Report details »
Published: 01 April 2008
Hara Aligns With Strategic Energy Management Ecosystem
This report analyzes the strategy of energy and environment software supplier Hara following the firm’s recent Series C funding and its recruitment of Ray Lane to the Board. The $25 million in funding together with strategic investors from the energy value chain will help align the Hara business with the emerging opportunity to provide strategic energy management. View full Report details »
Published: 30 June 2011
Hara Fund Raising Pressures Competitors
Hara Software, a California headquartered software firm focused on solutions for energy, carbon and environmental management raised a $14 million Series B round from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Nth Power and JAFCO Ventures. To hear more about the rationale for the additional investment and business plans Verdantix spoke with the CEO, Amit Chatterjee and the CMO Chris Farinacci on the day the deal was announced. View full Report details »
Published: 11 September 2009
Hara Wins Strategic Deal With Abu Dhabi Utility
On December 7, 2010, Hara announced its largest carbon and energy software deal to date and its first customer in the Middle East. The deal with the government-owned Abu Dhabi Water and Electricity Authority (ADWEA) will see Hara’s Environmental and Energy Management (EEM) software deployed across over 200,000 facilities. Working with Hara, ADWEA aims to implement an energy efficiency programme to achieve an estimated $3 billion in cost savings over the next 10 years. View full Report details »
Published: 13 December 2010
How To Establish A Carbon Reduction Capex Budget
CFOs need a mechanism to set up a carbon reduction capex budget due to CEO commitments on GHG reductions, reduced acceptance of offset strategies and a lack of existing budget for energy efficiency and carbon management. Seven steps define a transparent mechanism for raising funds from business units and functional groups with energy consuming assets. Existing carbon footprints should drive contributions based on an internally agreed price of carbon. View full Report details »
Published: 25 June 2009
How To Finance Corporate Energy Efficiency
This report helps energy directors, facilities directors and finance directors to identify financing solutions for energy efficiency investments. Based on interviews with 13 energy management financing experts, Verdantix finds that although firms prefer to self-finance energy efficiency programmes, 10 alternative types of external financing solutions exist. View full Report details »
Published: 04 October 2011
HP Launches Energy & Sustainability Management Initiative
On March 10 2011, HP announced the launch of its new Energy and Sustainability Management (ESM) initiative. HP’s ESM initiative takes an enterprise-wide view and aims to provide energy and sustainability services to all business functions. The initiative draws on the IT services and business consulting expertise from the acquisition of EDS in 2008 and EYP Mission Critical Facilities in 2007. View full Report details »
Published: 16 March 2011
IT Will Power Boom In Energy Managed Services
The carbon management agenda is driving a new wave of entrants into the more established managed energy services market. Software suppliers, specialist consultants and technology services firms are all targeting the growing market of combined carbon and energy managed services. View full Report details »
Published: 13 August 2010
Metrus's Energy Efficiency As A Service Benefits BAE Systems
In October 2010 and June 2011, Siemens Building Technologies completed the construction of $1 million and $2.2 million energy efficiency projects in Merrimack, New Hampshire, and Greenlawn, New York, for BAE Systems, the global aerospace and defence contractor. Metrus Energy provided 100% of the initial capital for the project, while BAE Systems pays Metrus Energy an energy efficiency service charge for the savings delivered, under Metrus Energy’s Energy Services Agreement. View full Report details »
Published: 10 October 2011
MITIE Acquires Utilyx To Boost Energy Services
On January 10, 2012, MITIE, the UK energy and facilities management provider announced its acquisition of UK energy strategy consultant Utilyx. The acquisition provides Utilyx, which will continue to operate independently, with working capital and additional business operation platforms for international expansion and gives MITIE access to board-level decision-makers as well as a top tier energy strategy consulting team specializing in managing energy risk and procurement. View full Report details »
Published: 07 February 2012
New ISO 50001 Aims To Tackle The Energy Management Deficit
This report provides EH&S Directors, Heads of Facilities, Energy Directors and VPs of Sustainability with independent analysis of the new ISO 50001 standard. Verdantix finds that the new standard, released on June 15, 2011, seeks to establish an international, cross-industry framework for energy management within organizations. View full Report details »
Published: 16 June 2011
Recession Requires Carbon Strategy Refresh
The 2008 credit crunch caused deep falls in business activity, energy demand and consequently carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. On March 25, 2010 the UK Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) announced that the UK’s CO2 equivalent emissions from the six greenhouse gases covered by the Kyoto Protocol fell by 8.6% in 2009 compared to 2008 emissions. But what does this one-off fall in CO2 emissions mean for individuals responsible for carbon strategy? View full Report details »
Published: 30 March 2010
Smart Innovators: Energy Management Software
Rising energy prices, greater energy price volatility, growing regulation for energy and associated carbon and increasing stakeholder pressure to manage energy in a more sustainable manner place considerable pressure upon those responsible for energy management within firms. This report provides energy directors, facilities directors, finance directors and VPs of sustainability with independent analysis of the energy management software market. View full Report details »
Published: 24 August 2011
Software Acquisitions Provide Boost To Energy Services
This report provides Chief Sustainability Officers, Strategy Directors and VPs of Sustainability with independent analysis of energy management software acquisitions. Verdantix selected this subject because over the past 18 months several large firms have acquired energy management software providers and integrated them into their broader energy management and sustainability offerings. View full Report details »
Published: 09 June 2011
The Energy Efficiency Imperative
Increasing oil and electricity prices, the hidden cost of carbon, growing risks from energy supply disruption and board-level climate change compliance issues make energy efficiency a new imperative for the CFO. Verdantix analysis of energy and carbon trends indicates that finance executives need a multi-year energy efficiency plan to maximise cost savings, help the CEO meet carbon reduction goals and make financial decisions based on total cost of ownership. View full Report details »
Published: 07 December 2009
Total Portfolio: Carbon And Energy Services
This Total Portfolio analysis clarifies the sustainability benefits, business value and maturity of thirty-nine low carbon and energy services. The sustainability rating tool cuts through greenwash with a fact-based assessment of each service. Executives and managers responsible for maximising energy efficiency and reducing carbon emissions should use this structured assessment to prioritize spending decisions and shortlist service providers. View full Report details »
Published: 12 July 2009
Total Portfolio: Energy Efficiency Solutions
This Total Portfolio report clarifies the sustainability benefits, business value and maturity of 30 energy efficiency solutions. The solutions are plotted on three product lifecycle curves based on a fact-based assessment of each solution’s maturity, investment case, future prospects and sustainability benefits. View full Report details »
Published: 24 June 2009