Companies all over the world are investing into carbon & energy accounting software because it takes the pain out of manual spreadsheet capture of emissions data. But a good carbon & energy management software is much more than that. And RESET Carbon works to find you the best in user-friendliness, cost-effectiveness and scalability.
The Entreprise Sustainability Platform (ESP), built by our partner CarbonSystems, is a comprehensive web-based software solution that streamlines the capture and reporting of source data for carbon emissions, energy use, environmental and social responsiblities across your organization and supply chain. Deeper features such as the capacity to auto-capture data from smart-metersallow users to have a real-time overview of system energy performance from accurate metering data, making ESP at once a carbon reporting tool and energy management platform.
Independently rated one of the top 10 leaders in the carbon and energy software market in 2010, ESP helps companies transform their business through better financial and environmental performance in more than 20,000 locations around the world, with key clients like Deloitte, Colliers International, Canon and Novartis.
RESET’s Role:
- RESET is CarbonSystems’ Carbon Management Partner in Greater China, responsible for adapting the platform to specific clients’ needs, providing training, data quality management and related energy management services;
- RESET provides strategic input to adapt ESP to Chinese and other emerging market conditions, including technical configurations, specific industry needs and language requirements.
RESET Carbon selected CarbonSystems for their key strengths:
- Quality Support: Strong back office and capable, flexible technical team with a strong focus on customer service
- Asia- relevance: - Chinese – English bilingual platform making it easy to use in China markets
- Technical capacity & flexibility: - CarbonSystems offer a very strong technical, independently rated by Verdantix analysts, and easily customizable systems to suit client-specific requirements
- Cost-effectiveness: -ESP’s flexible pricing arrangement makes it appropriate to Asia customers
We recommend ESP for clients seeking to:
- Reduce personnel time associated with carbon data management
- Understand energy and carbon performance across a portfolio of facilities
- Implement and track energy management programmes’ performance
- Improve environmental data quality and assurance level
Business Benefits of ESP:
Reduce time and cost to manage environmental data
ESP speeds and simplifies the collection and management of environment data from internal business systems and 3rd party suppliers, freeing time and resources to focus on core business.
Delivers financial grade compliance and business reports
ESP produces robust financial grade reports summarizing energy, emissions and other key environmental data. The platform’s powerful functionality, including features such as exception reporting, automated error checking and data accuracy reports, so you can have confidence in your environmental reporting.
Drive operational efficiency and cost savings
ESP delivers a range of analytical, modeling and real time management tools that allow you to develop a comprehensive sustainability performance management framework. Using internal and external benchmarking as well as scenario models, your organisation can identify areas for operational improvement and harness cost saving opportunities.
Verify ROI of environmental initiatives
Because ESP delivers robust financial grade data on energy, emissions and other sustainability drivers, you can accurately assess the impact, payback period and return on investment of energy efficiency and other environmental initiatives.
How ESP Works?
Automated Data Capture: CarbonSystems and RESET Carbon works with you and your suppliers to capture copies of electronic data files from smart meters, supplier reports, electronic invoices and your internal IT systems for automated upload to a secure database.
Manual Data Capture: Quickly and accurately enter data manually via customised web forms or preconfigured spreadsheet templates.
Data Services Hubs: Files in various electronic formats can be emailed to the services hubs for secure data extraction, verification and integrity testing.
Global Database: The secure SQL server manages your data and a database of global data formats, metrics and carbon emission factors for all major reporting
Learn more about ESP at CarbonSystems’ website