Alturus

As the effects of climate change become increasingly apparent, governments and consumers are placing pressure on organizations to moderate their energy consumption to meet carbon neutrality goals. In order to decarbonize their operations rapidly and at scale, organizations are looking to implement comprehensive, enterprise-wide solutions that help them reduce greenhouse gas emissions and achieve their sustainability targets.

Alturus, a provider of strategic decarbonization services, combines technology-enabled data analytics with full project identification, funding, and turn-key implementation capabilities, offering end-to-end decarbonization solutions.

“We provide strategic decarbonization services to some of the largest industrial and commercial energy buyers on the planet,” says Charles Esdaile, Managing Partner at Alturus.

With over two decades of experience in the renewable energy and sustainability space, the team at Alturus has solved complex sustainability challenges for many Fortune 1000 clients that have resulted in substantial enterprise-level cost and carbon reductions.

Esdaile says, “We take a centralized, data-driven approach to complex energy and emissions management problems. Many companies have net zero goals, but do not have a plan in place to help them achieve these targets. Alturus is able to prioritize their decarbonization activities and help clients meet their sustainability targets on schedule.”

Alturus has identified three common barriers to sustainable energy infrastructure deployment: project identification, project prioritization, and capital funding. When the process is approached as a facility management issue to be addressed on a site-by-site basis, achieving overarching sustainable infrastructure goals is difficult.

Companies struggle to meet their decarbonization goals when they lack a centralized view of the technologies operating in each of their facilities, energy usage, and their associated impact on sustainability goals. They often do not have the capital expenditure budget required to fund the necessary projects that unlock long-term cost and emissions saving results.

Piecemeal approaches to meeting aggressive sustainability goals don’t work. Alturus’ comprehensive approach to decarbonization allows clients to facilitate enterprise-wide sustainability while maximizing the environmental and financial benefits of the program.

In the discovery and planning phase of their unique decarbonization planning, prioritization, and execution process, Alturus works with executives rather than starting with individual facilities.

After collecting a deep and comprehensive amount of data on the customer’s enterprise facility footprint, utility rate structures, and available revenue mechanisms, Alturus analyses the data utilizingits proprietary Net Zero Engine. The Net Zero decarbonization platform optimizes infrastructure upgrade projects based on their environmental and economic benefits within a customer’s overall corporate energy, infrastructure, and sustainability strategy.

Inside the portfolio development phase, Alturus identifies the technologies and projects that will lead an organization quickly and efficiently toward their goals. In the final phase, the company manages every detail of engineering, procurement, design, implementation, and complete project funding. After project implementation, Alturus performs operations and maintenance of the projects while providing ongoing measurement and verification of the projects’ energy and emissions savings.

In one instance, a large, four-division manufacturing company with a global footprint engaged Alturus, recognizing they lacked the experience or the bandwidth to develop and implement large-scale sustainability infrastructure changes on their own. With Alturus’ help, they expected to meet their aggressive decarbonization goals through a variety of transformational ideas and innovative projects.

In this case, Alturus helped them evaluate their facilities and processes and developed turnkey solutions to decarbonize their operations at scale. The company supported their informed decision to focus on the biggest projects first, helping them coordinate these projects and scale those solutions across all their business divisions in different geographic locations.

While the manufacturing company is committed to drastically decreasing their fossil fuel consumption, their capital expenditure budget has limited flexibility. Alturus is not only enacting the large-scale changes envisioned by the client but also fully funding the project directly from Alturus’balance sheet. This extraordinary service is provided by Alturus to help their clients avoid the pitfalls of corporate budgeting cycles and unplanned outcomes. Instead, Alturus simplifies the entire process with a single Master Energy Service Agreement “ESA”, providing a transparent set of terms and conditions that governs the program and enables simple replication across the enterprise.

Alturus assists their clients by providing predictable results, detailed reporting, and communication materials aimed directly at internal stakeholders and external shareholders. With guaranteed energy savings, decreased emissions, increased operational efficiency, and a proven track record of solving the largest sustainability problems for the world’s leading companies, the sustainability pioneers at Alturus have changed the future of sustainable energy infrastructure through their unique, comprehensive, client-focused approach.