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Lumada customer case code: UC-01956S
Formulating CO2 reduction measures and roadmaps to meet the needs of customer businesses
2023-06-07
In efforts to build a sustainable society, many business organizations are promoting initiatives to achieve both carbon neutrality and economic growth. This article shows a customer case in which our data-based consulting service aids customers in their planning of carbon neutrality measures and the formulation of relevant roadmaps.
By generating hypotheses and performing calculations based on data, customers can examine and come up with highly feasible measures. Goals can be set and modified while Hitachi verifies the environments, both the external environment and the customer’s internal environment. Before equipment or solutions are introduced into a company, Hitachi considers both the initial costs and the running costs, formulates a carbon neutrality roadmap, and offers comprehensive support for formulating and implementing measures.
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The Japanese government has declared its goal is to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. To help achieve this goal, various companies are examining measures to reduce CO2 emissions. They are installing new devices and equipment, revising business procedures, and implementing measures to streamline their business processes.
After a company announces it’s goal to reduce CO2 emissions in order to achieve carbon neutrality, the company must plan specifics: what to do and where to start. However, they often encounter difficulties in formulating concrete measures.
For example, a company wishing to introduce a solar power generation system might encounter difficulties in promoting their plan to install the system, because it is difficult to estimate the benefits of the system. The company must have correct information about how the installation cost varies depending on the size and shape of the roof on which solar panels will be installed. After installing the panels, they might fail to identify how much power is generated, the percentage of the generated power available for use, and the amount of reduction in CO2 emissions. Without such information, they cannot assess the benefits of the system correctly.
Significant amounts of time and investments are required to implement measures to achieve carbon neutrality. When considering and examining how to introduce and use equipment and solutions, companies must examine the overall efforts and formulate a plan to gain the expected benefits.
Our consulting service can simulate and clarify the amount of expected CO2 reduction and the relevant costs, based on the specific measures your company is considering, such as replacing conventional vehicles by electric vehicles or introducing a solar power generation system. The simulations provide data visualization of the current situation and the expected benefits. To achieve overall optimization, our consulting service provides comprehensive support for planning strategies, examining measures, and introducing and using equipment and solutions.
Hitachi uses proprietary tools to identify the current situation and estimate the costs required to implement measures. For example, the tools can identify the amount of electricity generated by a solar power generation system and the amount of electricity consumed.
We can analyze customer data and calculate, for example, the amount of electricity used by various facilities and the distance travelled by vehicles. Tables and graphs provide easy-to-understand data visualization of the current situation and the proposed goals.
In addition, we can examine your internal environment and external factors, such as rises in electricity costs and introduction of a carbon pricing scheme, and help formulate and revise your plan. After examining the equipment and solutions that will be deployed and used, we can help formulate a roadmap based on specific numerical data.
Next, we will introduce our consulting and visualization solutions that help companies examine the effectiveness of carbon neutrality measures and enable formulation of relevant roadmaps.
