by Rebecca Walker — March 12, 2010—Carbon management software firm Enviance unveiled product to help companies comply with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s mandatory greenhouse gas reporting rules.
Its Greenhouse Gas FastTrack program promises to be fully implemented in 60 days or less at a fixed cost starting at $1,995 per month. The Internet-based product tackles emissions measurement, monitoring and reporting, along with online training and implementation assistance.
Approximately 10,000 U.S. facilities that emit more than 25,000 metric tons of greenhouse gases per year, including utilities, refineries, landfills, cement producers, chemical manufacturers, pulp and paper mills, and landfills, must track and report their total emissions in 2011 for the 2010 calendar year, notes the company. The rule went into effect Jan. 1.
Yet an Enviance survey of nearly 120 energy industry professionals at a recent conference, for example, found 61 percent without any current systems in place to record emissions.
Approximately 35 percent of domestic utilities use Enviance software for their carbon management, the company said, while a total of 12,000 users access its larger Enviance System through the Internet from 40 countries.
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