Sustainability and SAP - Start Measuring Now

In June, we outlined three different sustainability-related products from SAP: Carbon Impact, Sustainability Performance Management (SuPM), and Environmental Health & Safety (EH&S). We're anticipating that regulatory, political, and community expectations will drive utilities to increasingly embrace carbon reduction, and the first step to doing that will be to establish benchmarks based on historical data. (You can't change what you don't measure!) Utilities therefore need to start tracking generation and spend, ideally on a functional department level, and then get that data into SAP. It's not unreasonable to expect that management will be evaluated on its sustainability performance, such that IT, Power Plant, Fleet, and other department heads will have a vested interest in measuring their respective carbon footprints.