Sustainability & ESG apps for (Renewable) Energy & Utilities

Industry: Energy & Utilities

The Consumer Goods and Retail industry faces significant ESG challenges related to sustainable sourcing, ethical labor practices, and reducing environmental impact throughout the supply chain. challenges are digital challenges, smart solutions are shaping the industry's sustainable future.

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Your solution is One flexible Sustainability and ESG app layer on top of all your data sources.

The Sustaira Sustainability Circle is a high-level overview of what Sustaira offers. Sustaira has created building block applications within and between all of the domains of sustainability and ESG seen around the circle. These applications are meant to be tailored, tweaked, and customized to 100% meet the needs of the end user. The applications then live in the Sustaira launchpad that acts as a smart layer on top of your internal and external data sources. Bring your sustainability and ESG data together with a building block approach that eliminates manual processes and allows you the flexibility to grow and change throughout your sustainability journey.

73% of total GHG Emissions

The Energy industry, while often seen as one of the first places to mitigate environmental impacts is the dominant contributor to climate change, accounting for around 60% of total global greenhouse gas emissions.

91% have Increased ESG Initiatives

According to PWC, The vast majority of utilities (91%) have increased spending on ESG-related initiatives over the past three years, with nearly half saying they’ve increased investments by 25% or more.

79% Want Alternative Energy Sources

According to insights from KPMG, A Pew Research Center survey found that 79 percent of Americans want the country to prioritize developing alternative energy sources.

Sustainability and ESG challenges within Energy & Utilities

Transparency

In just about every industry, but especially in energy and utilities transparency around ESG and Sustainability is essential . With the Energy ad Utilities industry accounting for over half of the global total green house gas emissions, being transparent around action taken to mitigate that footprint is an essential part of operations and has been for a long time, but is much easier said than done.
Lack of Supply Chain Transparency

Lack of supply chain transparency poses a critical ESG challenge for the Energy & Utilities sector. Without clear visibility into their supply chains, companies risk environmental non-compliance, greenhouse gas emissions, and social issues. Transparency is key to meeting regulatory requirements, earning stakeholder trust, and driving sustainability in a rapidly evolving industry.
Complexity of Scope 3

Scope 3 across all industries is seen as challenging to navigate. As we explore energy and utilities there are challenges around not only upstream scope 3 emissions such as sourcing, raw materials, packaging, and more, but also downstream as well looking at things like product life cycle and post-consumption fate. A common challenge is around batteries and energy storage from renewable energy sources. Diving into scope 3 understanding the true impact is an arduous process.
Siloed & Disparate Data

Often, data is spread across multiple systems or even users. This data is often even excel or email based. This means that there is no easy and efficient way to aggregate and manage that data nor make it actionable or insightful. Often, existing systems are not flexible or customizable to keep up with changing needs or requirements.
Changing Policies and Requirements

Policy changes around the world are going into effect around sustainability. This includes policies such as the EU Taxonomy, CSRD< The SEC Climate Disclosures, New York’s Fashion Sustainability and Social Accountability Act, California’s Climate Corporate Accountability Act (CAA), and more. All of these relate to environmental impacts, scope 3, reporting, and even sourcing. We fully expect to see even more polices in the coming years. Keeping up with these requirements is now mandatory and can be challenging.

Sustainability & ESG Challenges are a Digital Issue

Shifting the Paradigm

Sustaira uses Siemens' Mendix low-code platform, striking a balance between inflexible off-the-shelf solutions and time-consuming custom coding. With a building-block approach and reusable templates, Sustaira offers a customizable accelerator, bridging the gap between pre-made solutions and fully tailored projects, delivering flexibility without compromising efficiency.

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The business challenges outlined above put a tremendous amount of pressure on the digital capabilities within organizations. This is everything from supply chain transparency, siloed and disparate data, and ever-changing requirements around ESG data transparency needs. Typically, these core challenges translate back to a lack of flexible solutions that are instead replaced by a myriad of off-the-shelf solutions that only somewhat address the needs of the organization. It’s a lack of IT solutions that can truly deliver the value needed, without creating new challenges or expanding an already tangled workflow. So how are we going to solve and tackle these things?

Sustainability and ESG Solutions for Energy & Utilities

Carbon and Emissions Accounting Scope 1, 2 and 3: Measuring impact throughout your supply chain

The Carbon Accounting Application is used by organizations to get an overview of their Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions. Allowing organizations to make informed decisions around their sustainability efforts, not only internally, but throughout their supply chain. To do this, the carbon accounting module uses answers from our survey to build a reflexive dashboard that highlights action items to calculate the impact environmentally and financially. Dive into Scope 3 and open this up to your suppliers or external stakeholders as well!

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Data Aggregation

Create your single source of Sustainability and ESG data with Sustaira’s Launchpad. Each tile represents an application, custom project, or other software. Bring everything together in a single, agile, smart layer, that sits on top of the systems you’re already using.
This launchpad is meant to work WITH what you already have. Have an application or system that you love for one piece of your sustainability journey? We can add a tile to the Launchpad for that piece and bring everything together.

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Custom Sustainability and ESG Apps

There are unique projects that require extensive specialization expertise and attention. For those, our expert development team can take your ideas and bring them to life. Our team uses an Agile Methodology and works alongside your team the entire time. Have something special brewing? Let us help.

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Goal Setting & KPI Tracking

The Sustaira Projects & KPI module is designed with pre-built projects and tracking KPIs related to sustainable initiatives. Tied to the U.N. goals for sustainability or the framework of your choosing, you can assess the impact and ease of change with our QuickStart Survey, selecting those goals that you are most interested in. Then, choose from a buffet of pre-configured projects and KPIs to quickly add to your sustainability roadmap.

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Sustainability Supplier Management

The Sustaira Sustainability Supplier Management solution is designed for quantitative and qualitative data intake and interaction with your suppliers. If you’re still using spreadsheets and emails to remind suppliers to submit ESG and Sustainability information, this solution is for you. Everything in this template is customizable and can be tailored towards your unique needs. Whether you use a questionnaire/survey or a data intake overview, it’s all possible. You can set actions, reminders and different data input parameters per supplier. This includes reporting and actionable insights.

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