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opsForecast

Environmental performance management has undergone a profound business transformation. Whereas it was formerly sufficient to track and report environmental emissions at a local facility level, environmental performance has become a corporate-wide concern. Effectively managed companies are now maximizing global operations by balancing emissions, pollution control device installation, emissions reduction projects and production.

opsForecast helps you proactively manage emissions across your enterprise. By providing forecasted emission inventories, the software makes it possible to identify and correct problems before they occur, rather than dealing with emissions as they occur and consequences afterwards. The module also supports project tracking so that equipment or facility investments or pollution abatement measures can be assessed to etermine their actual impact vs. cost. And opsForecast identifies sources and locations that are likely to exceed emissions allocations.

This visibility allows users to either avoid or offset excess emissions, and ultimately provides the fl exibility in how you achieve compliance.

Key Features:

Forecasting based on productivity plans at individual facility level or across facilities.
Provide on-demand forecasts that use current data.
Compare forecasted emissions inventories against current and future emissions targets.
Forecasts utilize current project and abatement data to estimate emissions.
Equipment and source level project tracking to support performance analyses.
Analyze and compare internal and external projects with various percentages of participation and ownership.
Allocate emissions and allowances to joint venture operations.
Calculate and roll up project reductions for any pollutant, while accounting for productivity variations.
Export emissions forecasts, inventories and reductions to emissions trading applications.

Measurable Benefits:

Optimize Operational Flexiblity: Use forecasting to determine how to maximize overall productivity of a group of assets without exceeding local or regional (e.g., NOx, SO2, VOCs or GHG) limits in current or future reporting periods.
Track Projects: Determine the cost-effectiveness of abatement and control projects by calculating the actual emissions reductions to cost ratio, independently of fl uctuating reduction demand.
Support Financial Management Decisions: The software ties in with your emissions trading system to let you use emissions inventories and forecasts to support emissions trading decisions and settlement activities.

Flexible Reporting:
The data stored in opsForecast can be reviewed with standard reports, user-generated reports, or through the software’s powerful ad-hoc reporter. Examples include:
GHG Forecast: Forecast year-end greenhouse gas emissions of CO2e (carbon dioxide equivalent) against target values by facility.
Speciated Forecast: Forecast monthly emissions of any pollutant from any source at any facility.
Project Summary: Summary of all projects resulting from capital investments for capacity or productivity improvements and/or pollutant abatement.
GHG Baseline: Greenhouse gas emissions inventory for baseline year used for calculating subsequent year reductions.
GHG Reductions: Greenhouse gas emissions reductions and ratio of reductions to amortized project cost.
Speciated Reductions: Reductions of any pollutant resulting from capital improvements or abatement projects.

Easy-to-use reporting features let you automatically generate reports on corporate-wide greenhouse gas emissions reductions.

Solving Real Environmental Management Challenges

Challenge: Your company has available thirty million tons worth of CO2 allowances for this year. At current production rates you will either need to shave off fi ve percent of your total CO2 emissions or else buy additional allowances. At current trading prices, this would cost your company €15MM. Should you spend the money on additional allowances or can you get by on your current allotment of allowances?

Solution: opsForecast allows you to predict how by increasing production in France and taking advantage of abatement projects there while decreasing production at your German facilities you can reduce your total annual global CO2 emissions by fi ve percent, and therefore remain in compliance without having to buy additional allowances. Congratulations: By running this projection, you saved your company €15MM !

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