The Challenge: Manual Burdens & Data Disconnects
SECURE, a leader in waste management and energy infrastructure, faced increasing complexity in tracking emissions across its extensive portfolio of assets. With operational data flowing from over 50 operational and emissions data vendors, their Scope 1 and 2 emissions reporting relied heavily on manual entry, aggregation and verification of data managed almost entirely through spreadsheets. This led to time burdens each quarter, increased risk of errors, and limited granular insight crucial for their broader sustainability goals.
Key Challenges Included:
- Manual Processes: Large effort each quarter to collect and transform data primarily through manual processes which could lead to potential data entry errors.
- Limited Traceability & Auditability: Difficulty linking vendor invoices and usage data directly to specific facilities, hindering accurate emissions allocation and audit verification.
- Inconsistent Data Quality: Spreadsheet-based workflows made it difficult to ensure data consistency and identify discrepancies.
The Solution: Automated Emissions Data Management
Validere partnered with SECURE to implement the Validere Platform to deliver a comprehensive, automated platform that unified data ingestion, emissions quantification, and reporting. The solution was designed to centralize and streamline their entire emissions data management process.
Key Components of the Solution:
- Centralized Asset Inventory: Validere organized a comprehensive, up-to-date inventory of SECURE's diverse assets (midstream, waste management, chemical storage) becoming the source of truth for active assets, enabling precise emissions allocation across business units.
- Automated Data Ingestion: Custom data pipelines were built to ingest data from 50+ vendor sources ranging from truck tickets to electricity bills.
- Granular Emissions Tracking: Enabled source-level attribution by accurately linking vendor data to specific facilities, also helping to flag potential invoicing discrepancies.
- Real-time Dashboards & Reporting: Dynamic visualizations and variance tracking deliver actionable insights to support reduction planning and enhance auditability with structured workflows.
The Validere platform provided SECURE with the tools to manage emissions reporting more efficiently, gaining deeper operational insight and greater confidence in their data.
The Results: Quantifiable Efficiency, Accuracy, and Confidence
Validere’s solution helped SECURE shift from manual, time-intensive processes to a streamlined, insight-driven emissions reporting approach, delivering immediate and projected quantifiable benefits:
- Efficiency gains: Time savings each quarter through automation of data collection and processing.
- Enhanced Data Quality & Accuracy:
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- Eliminated Errors: Completely removed formula-related errors inherent in spreadsheet work.
- Improved Calculations: Identified and implemented improvements in emission source calculations.
Increased Confidence: Established a crucial verification step comparing internal numbers to platform outputs, significantly increasing overall confidence in data integrity.
- Facility-Level Visibility: More granular reporting enabled clear attribution of emissions across facilities and business units.
- Better Decision Support: Real-time dashboards and trend analyses empower SECURE to monitor emissions over time, quickly identify variances, and inform long-term reduction strategies.
- Stronger Reporting Processes: SECURE is able to produce more reliable emissions reports with less effort and greater confidence.
These improvements have not only strengthened SECURE's reporting processes, allowing them to produce more reliable emissions reports with less effort and greater confidence, but have also laid a solid foundation for stronger compliance, internal accountability, and long-term emissions management.
Testimonial
"Working with Validere has helped us advance our emissions reporting capabilities. Through the adoption of their emissions management software, we've achieved more accurate and automated emissions tracking, minimizing errors associated with manual data entry. The platform’s centralized dashboard provides a comprehensive view of emissions across all business units, empowering us to plan, forecast, and comply with evolving regulatory requirements with greater confidence. This collaboration has strengthened our reporting processes and positioned us for continued progress on our sustainability journey."
Karen Kim
Team Lead for ESG Data Management and Reporting
SECURE