Empowers of the CFO

Impact your Bottom Line

What's good for the environment is great for business. However, before organizations can identify the full benefit of environmental initiatives, the Chief Financial needs to know how these initiatives impact the bottom line.

The Virtual Power Plant EEMS solution enables your organization to have a clear perspective on resource consumption, emissions, and the return you can expect from investing in sustainability initiatives. With the Virtual Power Plant EEMS, these initiatives can be implemented across your internal organization and value chain in a consistent, efficient and cost-effective manner. It provides a verifiable way for you to:

• Gain visibility into the entire organization's energy performance through familiar, easy-to-use dashboards that monitor key financial energy metrics.

• With an integrated, unified, trusted data platform, ensure data quality and create reports with numbers people can count on.

• Get up to speed quickly and spend less time on training by relying on tools you already know and use every day, such as Microsoft Excel.

• Minimize manual financial processes and reduce errors in spreadsheets.

• Enable organizational transparency to meet energy management goals.

Empowers Operations Managers

Manage Multiple Locations in Multiple Time Zones by a comparative and all inclusive benchmarking and forensic auditing software program. Virtual Power Plant EEMS evaluates the impact of resource consumption across individual departments, facilities and operations and assesses the savings potential of resource and emission reduction initiatives across the product lifecycle. Virtual Power Plant EEMS enables you to determine product intensity for carbon labeling and to “design for emissions” and phase-in sustainable initiatives and alternatives that provide the biggest ROI.

• Monitor and improve operational energy performance by consolidating data across multiple information sources (Buildings, Systems, Meters, Utilities, etc.).
• Gain visibility of facility energy demand, across multiple locations and time zones.
• Support sustainability initiatives such as ENERGY STAR, and LEED.
• Accurately forecast energy demand and spot trends to align energy resources more effectively.
• Measure and manage vendor performance.
• Identify inefficient processes in facility operations, etc.
• Get up to speed quickly and spend less time on training by relying on tools you already know and use every day, such as Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Outlook.

Empowers Sustainability Professionals

Environment and Energy

Finally, the program is here that measures and illustrates the worth that all Sustainability Professionals have been touting for years. A program that can definitively illustrate to the CFO of the organization the Bottom Line enhancement that the Sustainability Professional brings to the table:

• Increase business efficiency
• Maximize shareholder value
• Mitigate risk

Enterprise Energy Management System from reporting to reduction
Virtual Power Plant Enterprise Energy Management System gives organizations auditable transparency and control of their “organizational metabolism”- the collective resources consumed and expended by an organization - including energy, water, gas, waste, carbon and other natural resources. Virtual Power Plant EEMS enables organizations to comprehensively and securely manage their environmental record and leverage best practices in order to improve efficiency, manage risk and maximize shareholder value.

Virtual Power Plant EEMS is a highly-configurable and scalable solution that is already used by leading companies across industry types and government organizations. It enables organizations to:

• Gain visibility into the facilities through familiar, easy-to-use dashboards and scorecards that track performance and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs).
• Analyze energy & carbon data and trends to identify issues and implement solutions that help meet quotas by target dates.
• Make accurate forecasts about future energy demand & carbon and get ahead of the budget cycle.
• Understand and predict facility energy demand & carbon patterns to boost savings.
• Analyze facilities energy history to identify the best energy efficiency solutions to increase effectiveness and savings.
• Identify and capitalize on new energy efficiency opportunities.

Which is easier for property intensive corporations and retailers? Driving energy consumption down? Or driving up revenue to compensate for increasing costs? How much more do you have to sell to compensate for higher operating costs due to energy?