Are your decarbonization
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Building on Your Progress with the Expertise, Tools, and Resources to Achieve Transformational Change.

Achieving meaningful decarbonization requires more than just a plan — it demands actionable solutions, expert guidance, and ongoing support. Our comprehensive suite of data and software solutions coupled with expert services will help you reduce emissions, optimize operations, and stay ahead of regulatory and customer mandates.

You’ve taken important steps toward your ambitious decarbonization goals, but the journey to lasting results often reveals barriers that require new approaches. Misaligned incentives, limited resources, and the complexity of implementation can slow progress.

When you put Cascade Energy on your team you get industrial expertise that adapts to your culture and dynamic needs, the technology to track progress and reward persistence, and the hands-on resources you need to implement progress and drive results.

Decarbonization Solutions

No matter where you are in your journey, we have the timely and trusted resources you need to get the job done.

  • Establish your scope 1, 2, and 3 GHG emissions profile to meet customer or regulatory requirements.
  • Understand your emissions profile to properly strategize and implement decarbonization strategies, making your business or community more resilient and improving your bottom line.
  • Develop a customized roadmap that outlines key steps, timelines, and strategies for achieving your emissions reduction goals.
  • Establish clear, measurable targets for emissions reductions aligned with industry standards (eg., net-zero by 2030 or 2050).
  • Create achievable milestones for tracking progress.
  • Optimize resource allocation and investment in energy efficiency and renewable energy, ensuring a cost-effective and scalable transition to a low-carbon future.
  • Future-proof your business by designing a strategy that adapts to evolving regulations and business needs, reducing risk and increasing resilience.
  • Maximize return on investment by receiving detailed cost-benefit analyses for decarbonization initiatives, making your sustainability investments financially justifiable.
  • Access available grants, incentives, and tax credits, optimizing your budget for green initiatives and reducing upfront capital costs.
  • Benefit from structured financing solutions tailored to fund decarbonization projects, ensuring that financial constraints do not limit your sustainability progress.
  • Stay on track with your sustainability goals by continuously monitoring and tracking emissions reductions.
  • Make sure your team is always working on the most impactful projects.
  • Ensure your efforts remain aligned with your decarbonization roadmap.
  • Streamline the reporting process with tools that simplify data collection.
  • Provide transparent, accurate reports to stakeholders and regulators.
  • Gain insights into operational performance, identifying areas for continuous improvement and ensuring long-term carbon management.
  • Empower your teams to lead projects that deliver early wins, building confidence and capability.
  • Foster a culture of sustainability across your organization by engaging employees in sustainability initiatives and aligning them with corporate goals.
  • Equip employees with the knowledge and tools to contribute to the company’s decarbonization efforts, boosting morale and creating a unified team.
  • Enhance employee satisfaction and retention by offering training and development opportunities in sustainability, making it a core value of your organization.
  • Make it easy for leaders to create moments of change, catch teams and sites who get it right and spread knowledge across the organization.
  • Align your supply chain with your decarbonization goals, ensuring that your vendors and partners also contribute to your sustainability objectives.
  • Strengthen supplier relationships by collaborating on sustainability initiatives, reducing emissions and improving the environmental impact across your value chain. 
  • Demonstrate leadership by promoting sustainable practices throughout your supply chain, contributing to a broader industry shift toward decarbonization. 
  • Ensure the long-term success of your decarbonization efforts by continuously optimizing processes, improving technologies, and tracking progress toward net-zero goals.
  • Stay ahead of emerging technologies and best practices, positioning your organization as a leader in sustainable operations and decarbonization.
  • Build long-lasting, impactful change by making sustainability a core part of your organizational culture, ensuring lasting environmental, economic, and social benefits.

Not sure where to start?

Cascade offers a range of service bundles. These bundles can be tailored to fit your specific needs and the stage you are at in your journey.

Carbon Footprint Baseline Bundle

For organizations that need to identify their current carbon footprint and require resources and expertise to perform accurate calculations, we offer the Carbon Footprint Baseline Plan. This plan includes a comprehensive report that provides insights into the key drivers of emissions, along with data visualizations for easy sharing and understanding. All reports comply with the globally accepted GHG Protocol Standards.

Emissions Reduction Planning Bundle

For organizations that understand their carbon footprint, including their Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions, we offer the Emissions Reduction Plan. This plan includes a detailed roadmap for achieving your emissions reduction targets. It includes customized, actionable projects with recommended schedules, resource requirements, investment levels, technology applications, and logistics.

Metering and Reporting Bundle

For organizations that need real-time data to monitor progress, measure results, and ensure everyone stays informed and accountable, we offer the Metering and Reporting Plan. This plan includes the design and installation of metering hardware for data collection, the identification of key performance indicators (KPIs), weather and production-based modeling, and Gazebo — a cloud-based dashboard for centralized data management and performance tracking.

Site Implementation Bundle

For organizations ready to embark on actionable projects, we offer the Site Implementation Plan. This plan includes onsite assessments, assistance with state and federal grants and incentives, definition of project scope and priorities, support for capital project planning, development of risk models, and staff training and education to ensure long-term success.

For organizations that need to identify their current carbon footprint and require resources and expertise to perform accurate calculations, we offer the Carbon Footprint Baseline Bundle. It includes a comprehensive report that provides insights into the key drivers of emissions, along with data visualizations for easy sharing and understanding. 

For organizations that understand their carbon footprint, including their Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions, we offer the Emissions Reduction Bundle. It includes a detailed roadmap for achieving your emissions reduction targets. It includes customized, actionable projects with recommended schedules, resource requirements, investment levels, technology applications, and logistics.

For organizations ready to embark on actionable projects, we offer the Onsite Implementation Bundle. It includes onsite assessments, assistance with state and federal grants and incentives, definition of project scope and priorities, support for capital project planning, development of risk models, and staff training and education to ensure long-term success.

For organizations that need data to monitor progress, measure results, and ensure everyone stays accountable, we offer the Metering and Reporting Bundle. It includes the installation of metering hardware for data collection, the identification of key performance indicators (KPIs), weather and production-based modeling, and Gazebo — a tool for data management and performance tracking.

Our Approach to Decarbonization

The first step toward achieving net-zero goals are projects focused on reducing energy waste and emissions from in-plant fuel and electricity use. These not only pay off but can also be rolled out with the technologies and equipment you already have. These efforts are the most cost-effective way to achieve immediate reductions in emissions while setting the stage for future decarbonization projects.

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Gazebo has proven to be a very valuable tool for San Antonio Water System’s (SAWS) energy strategy efforts.

Chris Wilcut

SAWS District Cooling & Energy Strategy Director

The Real Time metering tool is by far the best tool in our toolbox. We use it every day to drive engagement which helps us show continuous improvement with our energy efficiency. The best is using the tool to show site level associates immediate results of actions that they have taken to help reduce their energy usage and demand. They get excited when they see the positive results of their efforts.

Ted Royals
Sr. Manager, Energy and Sustainability
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FAQs

Decarbonization is about reducing the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from entering the atmosphere. This can be done by using energy sources that are low in carbon, adopting more sustainable habits, and making our energy use more efficient.

Often, taking steps to cut carbon emissions isn’t just doable; it can actually save money compared to keeping things the way they are. This highlights the need for consistent and aggressive cuts in Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions, encouraging teamwork between executives and facility staff. For quick reference, here’s examples of Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions:

  • Scope 1: Direction emissions, such as those from company vehicles.
  • Scope 2: Indirect emissions, like those from burning fossil fuels at power stations for the energy you use.