PG&E reduces reporting efforts by 80% with Enviance

If you live on the West Coast, chances are you’re one of 15 million people that rely on PG&E for their gas and electric needs. You have gas in your home thanks to a portion of the 6,214 miles of steel pipelines PG&E maintains, and electricity is delivered from one of their three power plants which churn out 6,800 megawatts (MW) of power.

What you probably don’t realize, from an outsider’s perspective, is the massive amount of stress a company experiences when managing all of that energy, gas, data and infrastructure, to get you the energy resources you need.

Linus Farias, senior environmental engineer at PG&E, recently illustrated some of the key environmental compliance issues his company faces during a webinar with Enviance.

Farias and his team, like many other utilities in the United States, are mandated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to report once a year on their GHG emissions. Additionally, under Assembly Bill 32 they must report, on an ongoing basis, their emissions associated with electricity generation, retail electricity generation, and other areas. PG&E goes a step further, by also voluntarily reporting their emissions to The Climate Registry, Carbon Disclosure Project and the Dow Jones Sustainability Index.

When PG&E began searching for a solution to handle their Green House Gas (GHG) compliance needs, they realized they would need a single repository of data, a solution that could be implemented quickly and had the ability to track changes, identify reductions and forecast their GHG emissions.

The solution that met all PG&E’s criteria was deployed within a few months, and the use of cloud-based features helped decrease their initial reporting level of effort by 80% during their first AB32 mandatory report after implementation.

PG&E’s high ease-of-use solution, and ability to provide access to emissions information in the system across the entire organization in real time, placed PG&E in the best possible situation to better serve their customers while mitigating their effect on the environment.

Watch the Webinar here.

 

Sincerely,

The Enviance team

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