xEmissions is a simple and powerful solution to help companies calculate and track air, water, and waste emissions information. With xEmissions, companies can leverage various libraries and calculation templates to create a new solution or improve their existing spreadsheet solutions. The approach can be cost effective for both small companies and large enterprise organizations.
xEmissions empowers users to stay in control of the calculations going into their emission inventories and regulatory reports. By leveraging Excel®, all calculations are easily identified and tracked for audit purposes. Calculations are not hidden in some complicated calculation engine.
To assure consistent calculations and corporate rollup xEmissions delivers several features including:
- Emissions Factor Library – Assures use of approved emission factors.
- Emissions Data Dictionary – Assures common naming conventions and pick lists information.
- Best Practice Emission Calculation Workbooks – Supports common methods and best practices across the company.
xEmissions supports automated state reporting. Some examples include the Texas STEERS (pipe delimited text file) and Louisiana ERIC (.xlsx file). The xEmissions Data Dictionary supports reporting in state defined names and codes while still allowing corporate naming to be intact for overall rollup of emissions information.
CEMS data can be updated on a regular (daily) basis to support emissions reporting, calculations, and cap and trade position reporting when used in conjunction with xCITSS. This data can be automatically compared to EPA data.
Operations data collection from the field is often an important challenge. With xEmissions field users can use their familiar Excel spreadsheets to post their data into the xEmissions database directly.
With xEmissions users are able to implement whatever protocol necessary. Excel calculation templates provided by regulatory agencies or NGOs can easily be adapted for use by xEmissions. xEmissions can provide data in XML or Excel formats to meet regulatory requirements for various industries such as oil and gas, utilities, manufacturing, etc.
Business processes associated with environmental emissions work best within strong collaboration environments. xEmissions promotes collaboration through data sharing and notification capabilities. Users have complete control of who has access to the data that they own.
xEmissions is designed for enterprise use with strong data governance principles. xOverTime’s information security policies follow ISO 27000 standards.
Using xEmissions with xOverTime’s xCITSS solution delivers complete enterprise emission allowance portfolio management including up-to-date position reports for units, plants, legal entities and co-owners.