Camco

Our focus on finding cost-effective opportunities to reduce or offset emissions can reveal innovative ways to cut costs, overcome internal barriers to efficiency, improve processes, increase customer satisfaction, and raise productivity. Our interdisciplinary team analyzes all aspects of an organization -facilities, manufacturing processes, products and services, business models, materials flows, logistics, transportation fleets, employee actions, and opportunities for carbon offsets, sequestration, and credits - and recommends an integrated package of measures tailored to the client’s needs.

Camco’s approach and overall methodology for comprehensive carbon management involves the following steps:

• Estimation of past and present loads and emission footprints
• Projection of future loads and baseline emissions
• Identification of potential reduction measures under direct company control
• Evaluation of achievable potential, timing and cost of reduction measures
• Assessment of carbon offset options, timing and costs
• Prioritization of reduction measures and offset options to implement

The final steps, evaluating and prioritizing potential GHG reduction options in terms of achievable potential, timing and cost, are the key analytic tasks. Based on a metric such as $/ton-CO2 equivalent reduced, we analyze potential reduction measures and rank them in terms of cost and potential. This results in a 'supply curve' (more precisely a marginal abatement cost curve) of reduction opportunities, based on energy supply, energy efficiency, and non-energy options. If we have succeeded in the earlier steps to identify cost-effective measures, a substantial part of the cost curve, especially in the mid- to long-term, should appear as negative net cost, i.e., profitable, reduction opportunities.

For utility clients, this process links very naturally to the resource planning process. In effect, a comprehensive GHG management plan requires a true integrated resource plan (IRP) that harnesses all available and cost-effective supply and demand-side options. With such an IRP in place, the GHG reduction 'supply curve' follows naturally from the integrated resource cost ranking.