Carbon Count-Year 2
Last year, IDEA launched the first ever Carbon Count initiative, a voluntary emissions data submission program intended to support IDEA education and advocacy efforts while also serving as a valuable tool for members to demonstrate their success at reducing carbon emissions on behalf of their customers and connected buildings.
We are pleased to continue this effort in 2024. If your system would like to participate, please submit the last calendar year’s emissions data along with a brief description of your decarbonization strategies to Sarah Crawford-Theurkauf by Friday, April 12. Preliminary aggregated results and recognition of participating systems will be presented at IDEA2024, taking place June 17-20, 2024 in Orlando, FL.
We would encourage system operators to provide system information even if it is preliminary / incomplete. If system operators do not have information broken down by energy service, providing information in aggregate is acceptable. The program will not disclose carbon emissions intensity of systems without written consent from the system operators.
If you need additional information about this program, I encourage you to download the slides from our "Carbon Accounting 101" session at CampusEnergy2024, where we discussed the foundations of carbon accounting and critical components of financial-grade energy & sustainability data.
Last year, participating systems helped establish a baseline, both individually and for the industry, and as we add data every year, we look forward to seeing clearer pictures and trends emerge!