Introducing Inovateus Solar 

Inovateus Solar is a Midwest solar electric focused company, offering development and EPC services to its customers. Founded in 2008, Inovateus Solar is committed to investing in their customers’ energy future by providing affordable, reliable, and sustainable solar and energy storage solutions. Based in South Bend, Indiana, Inovateus serves utilities, municipalities, electric cooperatives, Fortune 500 firms, schools, universities, and commercial industries throughout the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic, and Northeast.

In terms of sustainability and ESG, being in the renewable energy business since day one, Inovateus has had sustainability at its core. With Inovateus’ mission to “Build a Brilliant Tomorrow,” they believe that following the best sustainable practices for solar development, construction, and operations benefits their clients, their company, and the health and well-being of everyone on Earth.

As part of their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) plan, Inovateus has set a goal of our operations being carbon-neutral by 2025. To achieve this goal and to become solar industry leaders in sustainability, Inovateus launched a stewardship team focused on:

• Zero-waste construction

• Recycling modules and construction materials

• Improving energy efficiency

• Reducing energy consumption at all facilities and job sites

• Procuring ethically sourced sustainable equipment

• Planting Bee & Butterfly pollinator-friendly ground cover

• Sustainable end-of-life decommissioning

The Challenge

Inovateus Solar faced a challenge that many organizations struggle with today. With a growing list of goals and metrics to track around sustainability and ESG, especially considering their “Build a Brilliant Tomorrow” mission, they were stuck with manual processes and Excel spreadsheets. Trying to track countless sustainability metrics on top of action items, goals, and various other KPIs the current processes were prone to error and took more time than necessary to complete.

Ultimately, Inovateus needed an agile platform that could help keep track of their metrics, critical tasks, and all KPIs. The end goal being to remove Excel sheets all together, build transparency, and improve overall efficiency.

The Solution

To solve the challenges Inovateus Solar was facing, they decided to adopt Sustaira’s Sustainability and ESG Goals and KPI Tracker application. The Sustaira Goals & KPI application is designed to get an organization’s business up and running quickly with pre-built projects and tracking KPI related to their sustainability initiatives.

This app is tied to the U.N. sustainable development goals, and allows users to assess the impact and ease of change using the built-in QuickStart Survey. In this survey, a user will select the goals that they are most interested in as a company and then it offers a buffet of pre-configured projects and KPI based on their selections that they can quickly add to their sustainability roadmap. The Projects and KPI module also allows for the creation of custom projects and KPI over, and above the Sustaira generated suggestions.

Now, Tyler and his team can not only add their current metrics, critical tasks and KPIs to the application, but as they begin to make progress they have a future proof platform that can help them grow as they move through their sustainability journey. The application is now replacing the existing Excel spreadsheets and provides a user-friendly space where Inovateus Solar can get a holistic view of their sustainability progress. Going forward, Inovateus hopes to be a leader in education and thought leadership around sustainable solar development.

Delivered Value:

• An agile application dedicated to Sustainability and ESG goals and KPI tracking

• Elimination of Excel spreadsheets and manual processes

• Live insights into core data and goal progress

• The ability to showcase data in a meaningful way