Rethinking Sustainability Through Data
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We’ve just celebrated World Environment Day on 5th June, 50 years after the breakthrough Stockholm conference on sustainability. This year’s theme was ‘Only One Earth’, focusing on living sustainably in harmony with nature.?
Achieving this goal requires everyone to rethink how they live and work to become more sustainable. Transparency and data democratization are central to this, allowing everyone to better understand and change their behaviors, and reduce energy consumption and environmental impact.?
In this newsletter we’ll showcase client success stories where data democratization enables us to rethink sustainability by decarbonizing the energy sector, living in harmony with nature, and increasing corporate transparency.?
?? Decarbonizing the energy sector
Open data is essential to creating smart grids, decarbonizing the energy sector and digitizing energy supply. It provides the information required to understand what is happening on energy networks now and in the future. It is essential to successfully making operational decisions to ensure that the lights remain on while building a Net Zero world.
We work with some of the biggest energy suppliers in Europe. Here’s how UKPN, ENEDIS, Elia and EDP are using open data to support decarbonization.
UK Power Networks : a pioneer in open data in the UK energy sector?
UKPN’s open data portal is the first in the UK and features one of the country’s biggest sets of information about electricity infrastructure. It has been developed in close collaboration with stakeholders in order to ensure it closely fits their needs. Building this active, growing community of users helps UKPN to create a more flexible, resilient, and greener transmission network. Over 5,000 people have accessed the portal since it went fully live in October 2021.
?? Find out more about UKPN’s strategy by downloading our success story here .
Enedis: the first European energy player to publish energy data through an open data platform
Enedis is the largest electricity distribution system operator in France, and was the first in Europe to publish energy data through an open data platform. It aims to proactively meet the needs of stakeholders and the community through data as it embraces the energy transition.
It has a key focus on data democratization, extending data use to non-experts, such as those in local government. This includes creating dedicated data access paths, allowing them to easily visualize and reuse energy data about their specific town, city or region via an interactive web app. They can quickly explore key energy data, use it to measure their own progress towards Net Zero, and easily compare against other areas.
Elia Group evolves towards a data-centric approach
Elia Group operates 18,990 km of high-voltage connections that supply power to over 30 million end-users, including both large industries and households. It aims to lead the way in the successful European energy transition towards a sustainable world through innovation and cooperation. Using Opendatasoft technology, its OpenDataElia platform is a key part of its data-centric approach, based on a robust and well-thought out data governance architecture and publishing data on a near real-time basis from its Belgian network.
?? Learn more about Elia Group and visit its open data portal here .
EDP: Open data unlocks the full potential of energy production facilities
Energias de Portugal (EDP) has committed to generate 80% of the country’s electricity from renewables by 2030. As part of this strategy its innovation division collects and shares data from sensor networks within its energy production facilities. To unlock the full potential of this data, EDP began its open data project in 2018, sharing datasets with universities, researchers and startups through its open data portal, allowing them to develop the assets and analytical tools of the future.
To drive deeper engagement EDP organizes regular challenges and hackathons, thus motivating its community to create innovative solutions to accelerate the energy transition.
Living in harmony with nature by monitoring environmental change
Open data is a great tool for monitoring ecosystems and for analyzing any changes, enabling proactive management to protect the environment.
The Maitland City Council “Greening Plan”?
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In 2002, Maitland City Council in Australia adopted the Greening Plan, a strategy developed to address widespread land degradation, loss of biodiversity and habitat. It aims to do this by protecting remaining vegetation, habitat enhancement and community-based revegetation programs. Thanks to its open data portal, the council has created the Greening Plan Report Card , a tool that helps to compare pictures of monitored areas and see the evolution of the revegetation program. Over 85 hectares have been revegetated on both public and private land since the plan was adopted.?
Geelong Urban Forest Strategy
The Urban Forest Strategy is focused on enhancing the public and private tree population in the suburbs and townships across Greater Geelong in Australia. Together, these trees and associated vegetation make up the city’s urban forest.
Geelong's urban forest is an extraordinarily valuable asset and the city’s open data program makes it easier to learn about the trees across the area as well as easily report hollows that shelter wildlife within them.???
Lake Macquarie City Council’s Urban Heat Dashboard
Also in Australia, Lake Macquarie City Council shares its Urban Heat Dashboard via its open data portal. Thanks to real-time environmental monitoring sensors, this allows citizens to explore temperature and humidity data. Through smart city initiatives such as this Internet of Things (IoT) network, it makes it easier for everyone to understand what is happening within the city’s environment on an ongoing basis.
?? You can see Lake Macquarie city open data portal right here.
Tracking the impact of big corporates and reducing industry CO2 emissions?
Kering develops its CSR project through data
Luxury group Kering’s Sustainability Performance team invested in a methodology for measuring impact, called Environmental Profit & Loss (EP&L). This enables Kering to measure and quantify the environmental impacts of its operations, a significant step towards implementing a sustainable economic model.
EP&L tracks CO2 emissions, water consumption, air and water pollution, land use, and waste generation throughout the supply chain, making the environmental impacts of the Group’s activities visible, quantifiable, and comparable. These impacts are then converted into monetary values in order to quantify the use of natural resources.?
Kering can use EP&L to guide its sustainable development strategy, improve processes or supply chains, determine if goals are being met, and adapt technology choices.?
Because of this approach, the Kering Group is able to communicate information on the impact of its activities to all stakeholders, through data stories, an open data portal, and a mobile application (myEP&L ). This provides a transparent approach in a market that is typically very opaque.?
?? Follow these links to learn more about Kering's EP&L methodology and its open data portal based on our technology .
These initiatives are helping to rethink sustainability. Each project is a footstep towards a greener, more transparent and inclusive world.
In every case, our data democratization platform was used to turn data into valuable, easily understandable information. This supports greater sustainability and openness, enabling organizations to meet the needs of their wider communities.
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