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Turn aspirational goals into operational plans with Copperleaf
Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) pressures are adding complexity to investment planning and decision making. Whether driven by shareholder requirements, new policies such as net-zero commitments, or increasingly conscious and demanding consumers, ESG adds complexity and intensifies the scrutiny around internal decision making.
The bottom line: organizations must strike a balance between meeting existing business commitments—and delivering on increasingly important ESG-driven outcomes.
Making Value-based Decisions is Easy with Copperleaf
A transparent, rigorous and repeatable approach to achieve your financial and ESG targets
Copperleaf’s entire business is focused on helping organizations respond to stakeholder pressures—with decision analytics and a proven methodology for defining and utilizing a value framework to optimize value and drive strategic goals. Extending your current approach to business cases to include ESG criteria is what a Copperleaf Value Framework is all about. It evolves as your business evolves.
We can help you identify what factors contribute to your definition of value. These can be financial, environmental, social, or related to governance, including risk. We identify the most appropriate metrics to quantify these factors and enable you to use them to justify each project or program. Leverage best practice models from the Copperleaf Value Model Library to get started quickly with a value-based decision-making approach.
Optimizing capital plans to achieve net zero as fast and cost-effectively as possible will be critical to National Grid’s success as a company. Copperleaf provides an ideal solution to help us do exactly that.”
ESG-driven Decision Making
When it comes to valuing potential investments through an ESG lens, organizations are leveraging Copperleaf’s solutions to lead the way:
- Manitoba Hydro, an electric power and natural gas utility in Canada, includes the benefits of carbon reduction in its value framework, enabling trade-offs between risk, cost savings, and the environment
- Anglian Water in the UK sets carbon output limits to ensure carbon reduction targets are considered during the planning of an investment portfolio to drive sustainability performance
- Essential Energy, an Australian electricity network operator, mitigates the impacts of bush fires using geographical shape files to determine the appropriate spend levels to achieve sustainable risk management
- Elia Group, a leading European transmission system operator, is developing project portfolios for the next 10 years to address both the replacement of existing assets and the necessary grid extensions required by the energy transition in Belgium and Germany
- TransAlta, a leading Independent Power Producer in Canada, has integrated sustainability into governance, decision making, risk management, and day-to-day business processes
- The BC Government established a rigorous process to ensure spending decisions are aligned with the initiatives that are most important to citizens and local businesses
My team’s work has helped position SRP as a leader in asset management. We’ve been interviewed by utilities, both nationally and internationally, on our existing and planned asset management processes, and on how we use Copperleaf Portfolio™ to support those processes and strengthen corporate governance.”
Delivering low carbon, low-cost solutions does not happen by chance. Having a single system where we can input the information required and then retrieve the data from one source in terms of carbon and cost has been an integral part of the success of our carbon journey.”
Prioritizing and planning investments has become increasingly complex. Many factors must be considered to end up with a feasible investment portfolio that is aligned with our strategic goals and objectives, and that uses our available resources in the most optimal way.”
Sustainability has to be embedded into your organization and the only way to truly do that is by operationalizing sustainability goals. This sends a message from the top that sustainability is an important part of corporate strategy and other groups need to think about that, as a matter of doing business every day.”
With Copperleaf’s solution, we have established a more rigorous process to ensure we’re aligning our spending decisions with the initiatives that are most critical to citizens and businesses in BC.”
An important part of our success is working with Copperleaf to integrate carbon into our asset management process—ensuring that we are challenging our supply chain against the measures we put in place.”
The thing that stands out as innovative in the Copperleaf optimization approach is how the customer and environmental values are taken into account so that the best decisions can be made, not only on a cost basis, but also for the environment and for customers.”
Decision Analytics for Net Zero & ESG
How should utilities integrate the increasing importance of ESG and net zero into their asset management and investment planning in a time of massive infrastructure growth and renewal?
Download this report from Utility Week to find out:
- How a Value Framework can help you optimize investment portfolios
- How decision analytics technology can support delivery of ESG and net-zero goals
- The cost and operational efficiency gains associated with Asset Investment Planning and Management (AIPM)
Spotlight on ESG at Anglian Water
With a long coastline, and low rainfall in a low-lying region, Anglian Water’s strategy to adapt to the climate emergency is critical and impacts its entire business operations and supply chain. Central to Anglian Water’s ESG strategy is the goal to achieve net zero by 2030 and ensure that greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) are lower or equal to mitigation activities.
Download this case study to learn how the implementation of Copperleaf Portfolio™ empowers Anglian Water to holistically evaluate investment projects and demonstrate progress against its strategic objectives and ESG goals.