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3 Aug 2011

Moving vehicles between cost centres in ECM

Most organisations using ECM will generally have fleet vehicles assigned to one specific site (or cost centre) and will rarely have the need to move vehicles multiple times. However, one of our larger clients is a construction company operating over 200 active sites and given the nature of construction, people can be moving between sites and re-assigned to different cost centres on a regular basis.

Find the vehicle that has moved to a different cost centre:

Now simply edit the registration number of the vehicle to something else. For ease of view, it might be useful to add the date of change (highlighted in red); "CB7VEP to 03/08/2011". However, it can be edited to anything else; for example "CB7VEP Moved".

Once the vehicle is edited, the original vehicle will re-appear when you next import your fuel card data. That vehicle will appear again as un-assigned, allowing you to re-assign it to one of your cost centres:

If you have any questions about fuel card imports, or any other aspect of ECM, please contact a member of our support staff: support@carboncalculated.com

7 Apr 2011

CRC Energy Supplies

After an introduction to the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme, this post should give you an outline of the different types of energy supplies covered by the CRC scheme.

There are 29 energy sources covered in the CRC scheme and it is important that organisations keep a careful record of any consumption from these sources.

In the CRC, energy sources are split into core energy supplies and residual energy supplies. 27 of the 29 energy sources are residual supplies; these must be counted, but not necessarily always declared:

CRC Electricity Meters:

Electricity and Gas in the CRC can be either core or residual supplies, depending on the type of supply and meter associated with that supply.

A core electricity supply is a supply measured by a meter which is one of the following:

settled half hourly meter
non-settled half hourly meter
a non-domestic meter
a dynamic supply

You are able to distinguish the type of supply by identifying the meter profile type; half hourly meters (HHM) are profile "00":

AMR meters can be read remotely and capture data on at least a half-hourly basis, while non-domestic meters are generally profile types 05-08 (05, 06, 07 and 08).

Most other types of electricity supplies are classed as residual energy supplies:

CRC Gas Meters:

In terms of Gas, there are three types of supply that are considered core gas supplies:

Daily Read Meter
An hourly meter (remotely read AMR meter)
A large gas point meter

A large gas point meter is a non-remotely read (AMR or daily read) meter with a supply greater than 73,200 kWh per annum. Most other meters will be non-daily read ≤ 73,200 kWh per annum; these meters are classed as residual supplies.

Here's an example of these meters available in our ECM software:

As you can see from the CRC dashboard within ECM, all relevant emissions are routed to either core or residual energy supply. The percentage gives you an easy indication of how much carbon you have to declare in your CRC footprint or annual report:

If you would like to find out some more information about how ECM can help you comply with the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme, get in touch! You can also follow us on twitter for CRC updates.

More detailed information about the rules and regulations of the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme can be found on the Enivironent Agency's website.

30 Mar 2011

GHG Accounting in ECM

Before embarking on our journey to build Enterprise Carbon and Energy Management software, we decided that to build an enterprise solution, it would have to cater for as many greenhouse gas accounting, calculation and reporting frameworks as possible, in order for organisations to meet the highest number of legislative and international standards.

Standards that our ECM system currently supports include the GHG Protocol, Carbon Disclosure Project, ISO 14064, and the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme. ECM supports all these standards simultaneously, and certain standards such as the CRC can be simply turned off.

The highest level standard that had to be considered is the Greenhouse Gas Protocol; a global accounting framework established and maintained by the World Resources Institute and World Business Council For Sustainable Development.

The GHG protocol serves as the backbone of most global greenhouse gas reporting standards by setting out clearly defined boundaries, or “scopes”.

In ECM, we break the inputs and reporting into the three GHG protocol scopes:

Scope 1 includes all an organisation’s direct GHG emissions; vehicles owned or leased by the organisation, directly consumed fuels and gas fired boilers that are usually metered.

Scope 2 includes indirect emissions though electricity consumption. These emissions are indirect as the actually generation is usually carried out by a third-party, but most of the result of that generation is consumed by the organisation through metered electricity.

Scope 3 includes indirect emissions and essentially accounts for everything else that an organisation consumes and in an ideal world will include the whole chain of suppliers, distributors and other products or services an organisation consumes.

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As you can see from the first image in this gallery, total GHG (all scopes) 75.69 tonnes CO2, and as you cycle through the images you can see the amount of greenhouse gasses associated with each scope.

ECM also provides you with a view of scope emissions on a monthly basis:

In terms of other greenhouse gasses, our Enterprise Carbon Management solution also accounts for Methane (ch4) and Nitrous Oxide (N2O) where the data is available:

If you would like to find our more about ECM, or simply want some guidance with carbon calcualtion; don't hesitate to get in touch!

15 Mar 2011

ECM User Permissions

We have recently implemented varying degrees of user permissions on some Enterprise Carbon Management accounts.

Permissions are accessible by administrators when clicking:
settings-> user management, then click on a user and click "edit"

New users first need accept their invite and log-in before being assigned permissions. An account administrator can then edit their profile to assign sites.

"Make Admin" means that the user will have full access to the account (all sites, reports, fuel cards etc). These users are also the only people who can add new users and set permissions on the account.

Example:

This account has five sites: HQ, Publicity, Sales, Talent Management and Distribution:

In user settings, the admin assigns our data analyst to HQ and Distribution:

You can assign users to one or more sites and with different privileges (site users):

"Hidden" means that the site and any data associated with that site is invisible to that user.
"User" means that the user can view the whole site and add data, but cannot delete other users' data.
"Admin" on a site means that the user has full access to that site and can add or delete data created by any user.

When the data analyst logs in, they only see the sites assigned to them:

Site users cannot add, edit, or deactivate sites. They also do not have access to fuel cards or the CRC dashboard:

When site users click the "home" button in ECM, they are shown a footprint of any sites that they have access to, rather than the whole organisation.

Account administrators ("Make Admin") are the only users that have access to the organisation as a whole, fuel cards, reports, and anything to do with the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme.

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact a member of our support team or call +44 (0)20 8686 6372.

1 Jan 2011

Enterprise Carbon Management (ECM) software

We are proud to annonce that our new software package, Enterprise Carbon Management (ECM) is now shipping!

ECM allows companies to monitor, calculate, manage and reduce their carbon emissions for their entire organisation.

Enterprise Carbon Management (ECM) software that enables companies save a huge amount of time on carbon management and calculation. The system allows you to calculate emission information for CRC, CDP (Carbon Disclosure Project), Internal reporting, EU-ETS and ISO 14064 across entire organisational structures.

It reports on all three scopes and also has automatic importing of vehicle fuel cards, custom datasets and automatic meter and assists with highlighting areas of weakness and how to reduce and save.

If you want to find out more about how ECM can help your organisation, please get in touch or call us on +44(0)208 6866372.

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