Greenhouse Gas Reporting
Greenhouse Gas Reporting
Accurately measuring and compiling your energy consumption data for greenhouse gas reporting can be both difficult and expensive.
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As you might expect, quite a number of questions arise concerning the collection and compilation of consumption data for the government greenhouse and energy reporting system.
- Who actually supplies energy products to your organisation?
- What are those products?
- What is their source?
- Are they supplied directly, or indirectly through the supply of other goods and services?
- Where are these energy products consumed?
- How are each of them measured and documented?
- How are they classified under the legislation?
- What are the greenhouse gas equivalents for each commodity consumed?
- What basis of measurement is used for each and how are they reported?
- What format do I need to report them in?
Equally important as answering these questions is the task of designing, developing and implementing the systems through which this information is collected, collated and reported. Energy companies do not follow a common methodology in defining actual consumption details on their documentation. If they did, this whole process could be a lot simpler. At this stage though, even if it would be a considerable help if they did, they are not required to. It just means the whole thing is more complicated than it needs to be.
The solution put forward by Activa to deal with this uses its pre-existing Performance Analytics functionality. This captures the financial and non-financial requirements for NGERS simultaneously by integrating the input of energy consumption data into the normal AP invoice capture task. It is simply not possible to make the process any easier than this, unless, of course, we were to capture the raw data electronically! Unfortunately that depends upon the energy companies providing the electronic data and that is not going to happen any time soon.
The solution put forward by Activa to deal with this uses its pre-existing Performance Analytics functionality. This captures the financial and non-financial requirements for NGERS simultaneously by integrating the input of energy consumption data into the normal AP invoice capture task. It is simply not possible to make the process any easier than this, unless, of course, we were to capture the raw data electronically! Unfortunately that depends upon the energy companies providing the electronic data and that is not going to happen any time soon.
Electricity has far and away the highest utility and consumption rates and probably will have for the foreseable future. There are many emerging commercial and industrial situations in a deregulated market where operators purchase energy in bulk at negotiated tariffs and redistribute this through privately owned infrastructure to their clients.
Examples of this are corporate parks, residential villages, commercial office space and so on. A critical part of the arrangement is the metering of specific accounts using Smart Meters that generate consumption data that can be electronically captured.
Activa has integrated the capability to auto-process this data and to on-charge consumption to individual clients at the appropriate tariff in the normal course of invoicing periodic expense charges. This process also completes the normal statistical conusumption records required for NGERS reporting as if it were manually input.
Examples of this are corporate parks, residential villages, commercial office space and so on. A critical part of the arrangement is the metering of specific accounts using Smart Meters that generate consumption data that can be electronically captured.
Activa has integrated the capability to auto-process this data and to on-charge consumption to individual clients at the appropriate tariff in the normal course of invoicing periodic expense charges. This process also completes the normal statistical conusumption records required for NGERS reporting as if it were manually input.
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| Article last updated : Mar 15 2012 3:53PM |  |