Carbon Consulting

Groom Energy has three Carbon related offerings for its customers and partners:

Carbon Consulting
ECA Research
Seminars

CARBON CONSULTING

Groom Energy assists its customers with a variety of carbon related projects including building GHG inventories, assessing where reductions are possible, identifying product and business supply chains for opportunities to become more environmentally efficient and designing internal employee and student awareness and behavior training programs. Specifically, our Carbon Consulting service offerings include:

GHG Inventory, Reporting and Strategy
A GHG inventory or “carbon footprint” is an important first step in understanding your organization’s collective climate impact. Consistent with the protocols set by the World Resources Institute, a GHG inventory determines boundary conditions, energy sources (factories, fleets, buildings), emissions standards and thresholds, and is an important starting point for climate and stakeholder strategy. With the inventory developed, GES can help your team by developing an overall climate strategy and risk assessment. This will include benchmarking your GHG emission levels and reporting programs to stakeholders and NGOs, including mandatory and voluntary GHG programs such as the Carbon Disclosure Project, EPA’s Climate Leaders program, The Climate Registry, and the California Air Review Board, among others. It also includes developing programs to improve your current inventory by evaluating various technologies and offsets available and their environmental and economic returns.
Climate Strategy Case Study (.pdf format)

Green Programs for Employees and Students
Many organizations are struggling today both with identifying how to change behavior within their organizations and market their environmental progress to their employees (especially customer-facing employees) and students. The Groom Energy team can develop the programs, marketing materials and software systems to address many of these efforts, which typically are under-resourced inside the enterprise.

Groom Energy Emerging Best Practices for Employee Engagement Survey

Greening Your Supply Chain Consulting
With the emerging development of WRI protocols for your broader GHG emissions impact, it is more clear that your enterprise will soon be judged on both your operation impact AND the impact of your products and services to the environment. Many companies are continually studying the materials, transportation, packaging and life cycle of the products and services they deliver to their customers in an effort to refine and reduce their impact and Groom Energy can assist with them with both this business and technical process.

ECA RESEARCH

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Enterprise Carbon Accounting: Analysis of GHG Reporting and Software

In 2008 Groom Energy identified the need of large organizations to the track, report and manage GHG emissions and named it Enterprise Carbon Accounting (ECA). To provide a clear understanding and analysis of this emerging area, Groom Energy publishes a market research report entitled Enterprise Carbon Accounting: An Analysis of Organizational-Level Greenhouse Gas Reporting and a Review of GHG Software Products. This report has been updated 3 times and is the most comprehensive report available today. The most recent report is based on meetings and demos with 27 software vendors.

Reasons to purchase the 65 page January 2010 report are:

- Refine your business case for investment based on 20 key ECA software features and case studies. Understand the 5 business pressures drive companies to calculate and report GHG emissions, including request from top customers (e.g. Walmart) and investors (80% of large firms to report to CDP over next 2 years)

- Shorten your research time to develop short list of vendors from the over 60 vendors that sell ECA software (see link below for the current complete list)

- Read profiles of the top 20 vendors, including for each a list the major customers, an estimate of the total number of customers, and product screen shots.

- Learn more about the dynamics of the vendor market.
   o In 2009, two vendors raised $46m in investments and 5 ECA vendors were acquired by larger companies.
   o Over 25 vendors entered the market in 2009, including Microsoft, Computer Associates and startups like Hara.
   o Partial list of firms that made purchases in 2009.
   o Worldwide unit sales of ECA software to large enterprises were 50 in 2009, and will grow to 1500 in 2011.
   o Energy management/bill payment firms, like Summit Energy and Pace, secured customers in 2009
      as customers are increasingly demanding solutions to manage both carbon and energy.

- Learn the 10 observations we had after 27 vendor demos and key questions to consider when considering if carbon management solution should also manage energy spend

- The report names 8 2010 Emerging ECA Market Leaders based on vendor financial stability, number of customer deployments, strength of technology and vision (listed alphabetically):

1. Enablon
2. Enviance
3. Hara
4. IHS
5. Johnson Controls
6. PE International
7. ProcessMAP
8. SAP

Download Free ECA Report Excerpt

List of 60+ Software Packages for GHG/Carbon/Enterprise Carbon Accounting

Click here to purchase our new ECA Survey

ECA Buyer Survey: A Survey of Purchasing Intentions of
16 Large, Global Organizations for ECA Software

Learn which vendors large companies are considering, when they plan to buy,
how much they plan on spending, key features, and more.

Download Free Survey Excerpt

ECA VENDOR NEWS

Siebel's Stealth Carbon Startup C3 Lands $26 Million And Condoleezza Rice On Its Board

IHS buys ESS for $59m

EnerNOC acquires eQuilibrium Solutions Inc.

TRIRIGA Wins AMR Award

ECA report mentioned in Business Week

Hara Software Launches with $6M from Kleiner

SAP to buy Clear Standards

UPCOMING GROOM ENERGY SEMINAR

Green Enterprise 2010 Conference
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Keynote: Jeffrey Hollender,
CEO of Seventh Generation
More details soon

PAST GROOM ENERGY SEMINARS

September 17th, 2009 - Boston, MA
Greening the Supply Chain
For agenda, speakers, click here.

September 16th - Boston, MA
Walmart Supplier Readiness
For agenda, speakers, click here.

May 14th, 2009 – San Francisco, CA
Enterprise Carbon Accounting, San Francisco
For agenda, speakers, click here.

This seminar was also the basis for a recently published story by Business Week which interviewed
our panelists and documented their findings as their teams developed their carbon strategies.

February 25th, 2009 - Boston, MA
Enterprise Carbon Accounting, Boston
For agenda, speakers, click here.

Click here to go to our events web page!