Energy & Environmental Data Management

Work with our team of experts to simplify your data management processes and reduce the associated time, headaches, and costs.

Energy & Environmental Data Management

Leverage custom data solutions to achieve environmental performance improvement measures and greenhouse gas emissions compliance.

How We Support Your Energy & Environmental Data Goals

At Third Partners, we help you find the fastest, easiest path to meeting your environmental data management goals. Based on a dual commitment to sustainability impact and cost-efficiency, our hybrid approach blends the capabilities and accuracy of advanced software solutions with turnkey consulting support for when you “just need it done.”

Step 1

Understand your business needs. Assess reporting requirements, customer expectations, cost reduction mandates, and the role that energy and materials management play in driving EBITDA for your business.

Step 2

Map out data inputs and outputs. Identify gaps in internal policies, procedures, data availability, skills and resources.

Step 3

Recommend energy/environmental data management approaches. The most efficient solutions are unique for every firm. It’s not just about picking a software platform to handle your environmental data. We help you develop the internal trainings, SOPs/processes, and workflows that you need to achieve success from within. In fact, out-of-the-box software is rarely the right choice and can result in buyer’s remorse when you find out what’s actually involved.

Third Partners’ digital energy and resource management dashboards automate the measure and reporting of Energy & GHG emissions, providing the necessary insights to meet regulatory and sales compliance requirements

Results for Leadership Teams:

  • Global visibility into energy usage

  • Energy cost hedging & optimization

  • Prioritize GHG reduction opportunities

  • Prioritize cost-savings opportunities based on ROI

  • Instantaneous reporting for multiple ESG mandates

Why is Energy & Environmental Data Management Important?

Environmental Management Information Systems (EMIS) have long been critical for brands and manufacturers. In today’s business environment, EH&S leaders pursue focused energy and GHG data management programs for compliance reporting, improved profitability, competitive differentiation, and to meet customer expectations (including those endless customer sustainability surveys asking about your energy use, GHG “footprint” and whether you have reduction goals in place).

In addition to compliance and positive impacts on COGS/EBIDTA, any manufacturer that intends to make environmental claims on a product will need to substantiate those claims with data. The right environmental data systems and processes can mean the difference between a successful sales campaign and reputational backlash from competitors, regulators or watchdogs.

Today, companies rely on EMIS to address 3 main drivers:

Regulatory Mandates

Complex greenhouse gas emissions disclosures fueled by new U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC), EU CSRD and California State regulations.

SB 253, SB 261 & the SEC Climate Rule impact thousands of U.S. companies. Even if you do not directly meet reporting thresholds, chances are your customers or buyers do and they’ll ask you for data that you do not have today.

Cost & Energy Efficiency Opportunities

Monitoring business-wide energy, GHG, water, and waste is a critical step in reducing waste-related COGS and improving profitability and EBITDA margin.

Our environmental data management programs align with Lean Six Sigma and Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs). Pursue ISO 50001 and ISO 14001 compliant processes, with or without the official certification.

Customer Compliance Requirements

Measure, manage, reduce, and disclose a growing set of environmental data to a growing set of stakeholders including buyers, retailers, and investors.

Platforms requiring verifiable energy/GHG data and specific management systems include: EcoVadis, CDP, Walmart Project Gigaton, and more.

The Benefits of Professional Energy & Environmental Data Management

What is the biggest problem with supposedly turnkey energy and GHG software? The moment you realize that 90% of the time is spent outside of the software platform, chasing input data and translating it into an ever expending number of reporting channels. Third Partners offers a tech-enabled energy and GHG data solution that actually delivers. By tailoring an energy data reporting solution to your company’s needs we meet you where you are, helping to solve problems quickly.

  • Help you make confident, informed, and objective decisions on the right energy/GHG reporting automations, AI tools and reporting endpoints

  • Improve global visibility into resource consumption whether you have 2 facilities or 200

  • Create a verifiable, auditable repository of data to stay compliant with emerging requirements

  • Reduce the time you spend responding to stakeholder requests for energy and environmental reporting e.g. customer surveys, EcoVadis reporting, CDP reporting, and retailer-specific platforms like Walmart Project Gigaton

  • Empower operations, facilities, and finance teams to champion efficiency and innovation efforts

  • Avoid non-compliance caused by inadequate resource consumption data

  • Model non-energy data for a complete corporate GHG inventory (including “Scope 3”)

Case Study

Healthcare Leader Optimizes Energy Spend

NYU Langone, a leading healthcare provider, engaged Third Partners to design and maintain a turnkey utility performance management system capable of optimizing energy expenditure across a 10 million square foot commercial space. We developed custom data architecture for cross-platform EDI, pulling in data from hundreds of utilities across electricity, natural gas, fuel oil, and water. By providing company leaders with an accurate representation of energy costs, we empowered their ability to make informed decisions and forecast energy consumption, including GHG and financial impacts aligned with the New York City Climate Mobilization Act.

Energy & Environmental Data Management FAQs

ESG reporting and compliance frameworks typically mandate the disclosure of environmental data metrics such as GHG emissions, water usage, and waste to landfill. In order to provide accurate data and track improvement year-over-year, companies need user-friendly systems with all their environmental data in one place. These systems allow companies to benchmark against peers and demonstrate tangible progress on their environmental commitments. Additionally, stakeholders from investors to consumers are increasingly focused on environmental data. Disclosing accurate data demonstrates transparency and accountability, and is key to attracting capital and strengthening brand reputation.

Third Partners offers established methodologies for managing energy and environmental data, encompassing the entire process from initial collection to final reporting. Unlike generic software packages that may not align with specific organizational requirements, our approach provides adaptable solutions. While our dashboards feature standardized layouts for consistency, they are fully customizable to accommodate your unique data streams and reporting needs.

Sustainability goals should be measurable and specific. Environmental data provides a quantitative look at your company and makes it easy to identify inefficiencies, pinpoint areas for improvement, and implement strategies to reduce costs and environmental footprint. Third Partners works with you to identify your company’s data needs and recommend an approach that is the right fit for you. With global visibility into your data, leadership can make data-informed decisions and mitigate risks related to climate change.

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