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NV Energy cuts GHG reporting prep time in half with Enviance

If you’ve ever seen the bright lights of Las Vegas, you may have wondered—between drinks—what a massive amount of electricity it must take to power the entire city.

Behind the scenes, NV Energy is working tirelessly to keep the city up and running, while keeping a close eye on the resulting environmental impact. NV Energy provides electricity to 2.4 million citizens throughout Nevada as well as a state tourist population exceeding 40 million annually. Among the many communities served are Las Vegas, Reno-Sparks, Henderson, Elko, and parts of California.

Recently, Christine Klimek, senior environmental scientist at NV Energy, shared some of the environmental compliance issues her company faces during the webinar “Integrating GHG and Air Compliance Management and Reporting” with Enviance.

With 10 facilities and over 2,000 vehicles, NV Energy is the largest utility in the state of Nevada in addition to being a retail energy provider for California. As such, it tracks greenhouse gases (GHG) for mandatory EPA reporting and the AB 32 rule, as well as for voluntary reasons.

NV Energy is faced with various challenges:  it not only pulls data from different sources throughout the state, but also collects many types of data. It covers a huge territory, with purchased power making up a lot of its portfolio, so it must also track those sources. For a full look at its GHG profile, it needs to collect the last 10 percent of emissions (CO2 makes up 90 percent of emissions); this encompasses environmental data on fleet vehicles, emergency units, building electricity units, etc.

With Enviance, NV Energy is better equipped to manage its environmental data; as a result, it has already cut the time spent on data collection in preparation for reporting by 50 percent.

Watch the webinar here.

 

Do more with less: one-stop environmental platform benefits

Typically, companies deploy a different solution for each of their environmental management needs. Need to measure greenhouse gas emissions (GHG)? Get software for GHG management. Need to report waste? Buy another solution that can measure and report waste. It makes sense, right?

Not so much.

As environmental guidelines become more complex, implementation of various solutions – either developed in-house or purchased externally – to meet regulatory needs is proving cumbersome for companies. Acquiring or building these technology solutions for management of a single environmental type is costly. Companies are significantly overpaying for too many systems that cannot integrate with their infrastructure, or even communicate with each other to convey the organization’s overall environmental performance.

To address these challenges, we just released a new white paper entitled “More Bang, Less Bucks: Why One-Stop Environmental Systems Make Better Sense,” which explores the business benefits and value of using one environmental enterprise resource planning (EERP) platform. This paper demonstrates how a one-stop, comprehensive environmental ERP system can meet all of an organization’s environmental management needs, by:

• Providing a single, centralized platform for organizations to manage ALL of their environmental programs;
• Offering economies of scale, enabling more thorough analysis of environmental data across an organization;
• Creating the foundation required to manage one, or even 20 or more environmental initiatives as the need arises.

In this whitepaper, you’ll uncover many other benefits made possible by the use of a single environmental system, pertaining to both IT and business settings across an organization. In an era where environmental solutions are required for regulatory purposes, it’s crucial for companies to find the most all-inclusive system that will meet their needs, while saving time and money to reduce the bottom line.

Read white paper here.

It's Back to School Week at Enviance! Our 5 hottest Educational Resources!

 

With the start of a new school year upon us, what better time to talk about Education? Throughout the years, we have maintained an ongoing effort to produce educational resources in topics relevant to the Environmental, Health and Safety (EH&S) community to help disseminate best practices and contribute to Industry growth. We have received a tremendous response from clients, partners and friends that have been relying on our resources to keep up to date with the latest Industry trends.

If you haven’t been an avid reader of our selection of White Papers and don’t know where to start, worry not! We put together a list of our Top 5 White Papers to share with you this week!

Ever wanted to know what your peers and even competitors are reading to keep informed? Follow our links below and learn more about what is helping them effectively and efficiently manage EH&S requirements.

TOP 1 RESOURCE: THE EMISSIONS TRIFECTA: Combining Title V, Air Emissions Inventory and GHG Reporting

The Emissions Trifecta White Paper is our most popular white paper of all time. It discusses how streamlining emissions data (Title V, Air Emissions Inventory and GHG) into one comprehensive, centralized system that has been designed to capture and report the data required for a variety of different regulatory environmental programs saves companies time, money and personnel.

TOP 2 RESOURCE: SUPPLY CHAIN ENVIRONMENTALISM: Using Environmental ERP to Manage Environmental Impact for Competitive Advantage and Profit

This white paper introduces a new approach to managing the supply chain which defines Supply Chain Environmentalism as the enhancement of competitiveness through either cost reduction or product differentiation, or both, achieved by reduction of environmental impacts (e.g. greenhouse gas emissions, water consumption, etc.) in the supply chain.

TOP 3 RESOURCE: THE BIG PICTURE: A Method to Compare Facilities' Environmental Performance

The Method to Compare Facilities Environmental Performance white paper explains how you can compare facilities' environmental performance by using environmental compliance and sustainability data, such as emissions and water in a summary mode to produce "smart scores". 

TOP 4 RESOURCE: The Value of Public Perception: Transforming Environmental Efforts From Compliance-Driven to Risk Management

Many companies fail to understand that their environmental footprint creates risk to their business that's on par with losing their largest customer. The need for the role of environmental management to transform from simply meeting compliance requirements to pervasive risk management has become more evident in recent years.

TOP 5 RESOURCE: CASE STUDY WEBINAR: Streamlining Compliance by Automating Data Collection and Inspections with System Integration and Mobile Technology

Find out how a real company facing real environmental compliance challenges was able to efficiently overcome them by designing and implementing new processes and systems.

In this webinar, you 'll learn how one company went from needing 8 Environmental Managers about 6 days a month to input data to requiring only 4 to 6 hours of review time a month instead of data entry work. See how this company captured environmental field data faster, responded quickly to environmental incidents with workflow processes and saved time and money in personnel and violation fines. 

What’s your employee’s time worth? A case study in efficiency

Enviance is proud of its customers’ accomplishments and we love to share their success stories. Throughout the year, we host webinars highlighting great results and best practices in the field. Most recently, Patriot Coal, a leading producer and marketer of coal in the eastern United States, and CH2MHill, a leading global provider of engineering, construction, and operations services, took center stage to discuss how Patriot uses the Enviance system to meet compliance obligations from the EPA and Department of Justice, plus other bottom line benefits, in Patriot Coal Saves Time and Money, Automates Water Management.

In the webinar, Patriot shares some impressive results, including a massive reduction in the time it took to input inspection data, which amounts to roughly 40,000 data points per month. Prior to Enviance, Patriot’s environmental data collection and inspections were done by hand, and took eight environmental managers six full days a month to input. After installing Enviance, the process was automated by the cloud-based system, reducing the time to just 4 to 6 hours of review a month. In the year after deploying Enviance, Patriot inspected 33% more outlets, and cut effluent limit violations from 120 to 3.

To hear the full story and view the webinar, please click here.

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