Carbon Desktop

Start by connecting your meters and invoices—Carbon Desktop works best when fed with live data. Link utility portals, upload bill files, or set up API/SFTP feeds from BMS, IoT gateways, and ERP. Map meters to sites, commodities, and cost centers, then choose currencies and tariffs. Build dashboards that surface usage, cost, and emissions at site and portfolio levels. Set data quality rules to flag gaps, estimate missing reads, and normalize against drivers like weather or occupancy so trends stay meaningful.

Turn planning into a repeatable rhythm. Create annual and monthly budgets by site or business unit, distribute targets across meters, and lock baselines. Run scenarios (rate changes, new equipment, behavior programs) and compare outcomes side by side. Each period, review variance automatically: the platform highlights overspend, volume spikes, and tariff impacts. Route variances for sign‑off, add notes on root cause, and roll forward forecasts in a click. Link savings to projects so finance sees validated reductions, not guesses.

Keep obligations under control without spreadsheets. Store supply and service contracts with terms, indexation, and break dates. Get reminders before renewals, track tender status, and compare supplier offers using like‑for‑like assumptions. Maintain an audit trail for energy, water, and emissions disclosures. Attach evidence (invoices, meter screenshots, methodologies), apply region‑specific emission factors, and lock reporting periods. When regulations shift, update factors once and propagate changes across your inventory with full version history.

Elevate performance by comparing sites on what matters. Build league tables using intensity metrics (per unit, floor area, production) and set thresholds that trigger tasks for site leads. Use built‑in scorecards to brief operations weekly and executive summaries to brief leadership monthly. Schedule exports to email, S3, or BI tools, or let teams pull data via API. Generate board packs and customer sustainability reports from templates that auto‑populate charts, comments, and trends. Collaborate directly in the app with annotations, assignments, and due dates so improvements move from analysis to action.