Perenia: Complete Carbon Solutions – Services

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Perenia offers complete carbon solutions. We partner with domestic and global clients to audit and assess their operations, develop strategies to manage Greenhouse Gases and satisfy regulatory requirements, facilitate emission reduction projects and create and broker the transaction of carbon credits.

We invite you to contact us to discover how we can help your organisation manage the risks and opportunities associated with climate change.

Carbon management solutions

Perenia assists clients in managing their carbon impact by balancing corporate objectives with legislative requirements and the demands of customers and shareholders. Each client’s unique situation is assessed in detail to tailor a comprehensive carbon management solution.

Our carbon management solutions incorporate:

Streamlining: Assisting businesses to streamline their energy and carbon data and management processes and operations into one system.
Audit and compliance: Analysing operations to determine current and projected greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in accordance with local and international standards and ensuring compliance with current and future legislation (refer below for NGERS compliance services).
Risk and opportunity assessment: Evaluating carbon risks against financial and environmental parameters while also identifying opportunities for investment to cost-effectively reduce GHG emissions.
Carbon management plans: Design and implementation of comprehensive plans to monitor emissions, manage carbon liabilities and prioritise emission reduction opportunities.

Compliance under the Australian National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Scheme (NGERS)

Perenia assists clients to meet their compliance obligations under NGER Act, including: determination of whether the organisation is liable to report under the NGER Act; preparing comprehensive NGER Act compliant GHG inventories using Perenia’s software tools; liasing with the Department of Climate Change; submission of NGER reports; and auditing of internally or externally prepared NGERS assessments.

This activity can be dovetailed with reporting obligations under the Energy Efficiency Opportunities Act (see below), carbon footprint assessments and identification of opportunities to reduce emissions within an organisation.

NGERS applies to all organizations which exceed the following thresholds:

In year 1 (2008 / 2009): the company produces 125,000 tCO2e gross direct emissions or 500 TJ of energy are produced or consumed
In year 2 (2009 / 2010): the company produces 87,500 tCO2e or 350 TJ of energy are produced or consumed
In year 3 (2010 / 2011): the company produces 50,000 tCO2e or 200 TJ of energy are produced or consumed

A facility can also trigger the reporting threshold if it produces 25,000 tCO2e or produces or consumes over 100 TJ (from 2008 / 2009).

Sustainable Energy Solutions

Perenia partners with clients to identify sustainable energy solutions, including:

Mandatory assessment and reporting (e.g. Energy Efficiency Opportunities in Australia, as per below)
Energy audits and process reviews
Energy conservation measures and programs
Carbon cost curves to rank potential emission reduction projects
Energy monitoring and targeting systems
Demand side and asset management programs to conserve energy
Technology identification and assessment
Innovative finance and delivery mechanisms

Compliance under the Energy Efficiency Opportunities Act 2006 (EEO Act)

The EEO Act affects about 250 of Australia’s largest energy users and sets out requirements for large energy users to perform a 5 yearly business assessment cycle focusing on six key elements of Energy Management. Based on many years of experience in Energy Management, Perenia has developed a targeted process for assessing and improving energy efficiency that can be used as a business improvement and cost saving initiative whilst also meeting current legislative requirements. The Perenia approach involves:

Assuming the role of facilitator for an “Assessment Team” that supports site management and the nominated “EEO co-ordinator”
As the EEO facilitator, providing training and leadership in services that support future project and reporting requirements that clients cannot normally fulfil in-house
Perenia uses purpose designed diagnostic and brainstorming sessions to highlight project opportunities and provides spreadsheet tools, calculators and project sheets to allow the client to assess energy use, production benchmarks, GHG emissions, project savings and return on investment;

For a copy of our brochure on Energy Management Services, including EEO, please click here.

Perenia’s approach to EEO ensures integration with compliance requirements under the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting System (NGERS).

Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and Joint Implementation (JI) project registration and optimisation

Perenia provides end-to-end management of CDM and JI projects with a focus on minimising risk through reduction of lead times for host country approval and project registration. Perenia also assists post-registration to ensure that optimal emission reductions are achieved and carbon credits are generated as planned.

Our CDM and JI services include:

Project origination
Eligibility assessment
Project registration, including:
- Preparing Project Design Document including the development of new baseline and monitoring methodologies
- Validation, including engaging and managing a Designated Operational Entity (DOE)
- Responding to comments raised by the CDM Executive Board during the registration process
Project monitoring and verification, including engaging and managing a DOE
Brokerage of tradeable carbon units
Post-registration optimisation

Transaction services for tradeable carbon units

Perenia has an established network of buyers and sellers in Kyoto and non-Kyoto markets and can advise market participants on the structuring of transactions to optimise their requirements.

Our transaction services include:

Analysis of the carbon market
Structuring and contracting of carbon-based transactions
Negotiating and preparing Emission Reduction Purchase Agreements
Managing the issuance and transfer of carbon credits, including the establishment of registry accounts

Project development and delivery

By integrating its specialist carbon sector expertise with the financial and technical resources of its shareholders, Perenia is able to provide a complete project development and delivery service for emission reduction projects within time, cost and quality parameters.

Technology identification and assessment

Through its associates Perenia has access to a range of both developed and developing technologies in both traditional and renewable energy sectors. Perenia has developed a specialised process to assist in scoping and planning of these technical projects, which includes a range of financial, carbon cost and other business risk ranking tools. This enables the presentation of project outcomes in the form of a carbon cost curve supported by the project information and calculations. Perenia aims to provide project outputs suitable for immediate application, further feasibility studies, or presentation to project proponents. Perenia can also introduce related services such as financing, performance contracting and project management.

Our technology identification and assessment services include:

Design and project management
Providing project assessment and ranking tools
Conducting renewable energy feasibility studies incorporating
- Hydro and oceanic
- Geothermal and hot dry rock
- Wind and solar
- Biomass and alternative fuels
Conducting thermal power feasibility studies, incorporating
- Cogeneration
- Waste heat recovery
- Coal mine methane
Monitoring and verification programs
Investigating technology commercialisation opportunities
- Preparation of grant applications
- Financing services
- Performance contracting

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Our portfolio of services allows Perenia to provide complete carbon solutions. We invite you to contact us to discover how we can help your organisation manage the risks and opportunities associated with climate change.

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