UseAnalyticato find out...
to see how much your decisions reduce greenhouse gas emissions,
and to evaluate all the energy, environmental, and economic costs
and benefits.
Analysts can use Analytica themselves. Or Lumina's experienced
consultants will be glad to customize an assessment for you. You
may offer a tool to your customers to provide a custom-tailored
evaluation of your products for their own organization.
Either way, using Analytica, you will get results with an ease
and speed that you may find surprising.
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Here are some examples of how people are using Analytica to assist
with green decisions:
Optimization for
commercial-scale solar and wind farms With the ever-growing challenge of remaining financially viable in today's economic climate, most companies in the PV
and wind industries are struggling to seek capital for project development. Lumina has created a prototype tool to help
utility-scale and large commercial project developers identify and layer in the appropriate business and financial structure to
facilitate the development of an income/investment return by assessing the technology, economic, policy
and risk aspects of the project through a discounted cash flow analysis. .
Assessing
the value of R&D by DoE How will R&D on new technologies by the US Department of Energy
improve the economy, environment, and energy security? The National
Renewable Energy Lab with six other national labs, assisted by Lumina,
is developing SEDS, an Analytica model to evaluate priorities for
the DoE’s portfolio of energy R&D programs.
Fueling
cars from Brazilian sugarcane Ethanol from sugarcane provides Brazil with over 35% of its automobile
fuel. Dr. Adriano Azevedo consults to the Brazilian biofuels industry
to help them optimize production of sugar, ethanol, and electricity,
and hedge
against risk from weather and price volatility.
Saving
energy and cost in datacenters The cost of energy for power and cooling at many datacenters and
server farms now exceeds the cost of the servers themselves. There
are many new products and services designed to reduce datacenter energy
use. But, it's challenging for managers to figure out what combination
will reduce total cost of ownership, while providing sufficient capacity
and reliability. Lumina has created a prototype tool to help them,
the Analytica Datacenter Capacity Planning Tool or ADCAPT. More..
Estimating
methane from Canadian livestock It turns out that methane from cows, pigs, and sheep contributes
more to greenhouse effects than cars, trains, and planes. Canada fulfills
its Kyoto Protocol duty to estimate greenhouse gas emissions from
livestock using an Analytica model to assess the uncertainties. More..
Importance
Analysis helps green building design Stanford University's Center for Integrated Facility Engineering
(CIFE) is a leading research center for virtual design for architecture,
engineering, and construction. Caroline Clevenger, a Research Assistant
and LEED-accredited architect and John Haymaker, Assistant Professor
at CIFE, are investigating how multidisciplinary design and analysis
processes can lead to improved building performance and reduced environmental
footprint. More..
Integrated
assessment of the Clean Air Act 1990 The groundbreaking Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 was the first
environment legislation in the US to use market incentives - tradeable
permits to emit sulfur dioxide. How effective was this legislation
at improve air quality and reduce acid rain? A team of over 30 scientists
at 11 organizations developed TAF as an integrated environmental assessment
to help answer this question for the National Acid Precipitation Assessment
Program (NAPAP). More..
The human effects of global climate
change
ICAM (the Integrated Climate Assessment Model) is a long-term systems
dynamics model of the interactions between greenhouse gases, global
climate change, and human activities, including the energy use,
economics, technicology innovation, health, and populations at regional
and global levels. It compares a wide range of policies, including
avoiding, mitigating, and adapting to climate change. ICAM is possibly
the most sophisticated environmental model created with Analytica.
Experiments with ICAM have generated a wide range of valuable insights
and numerous publications. More..
How can a buyer know what products
are really green? Green purchasing offers a way for organizations to reduce
their environmental footprint — by considering the environmental
impact of products and services in their buying decisions. For this
to be practical, they need a convenient way to assess these environmental
impacts. To meet this need, Sylvatica used Analytica to develop
the Environmentally Preferable Purchasing tool for the Texas
Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ). More..
Telecommute: Reduce Your Company's
Carbon Footprint Telecommuting may be the single most effective way that a company
office can reduce its carbon footprint. The typical auto commute
contributes half as much as each employee's in-office-related CO2
emissions.The Telecommuting Benefits Model allows you to quickly
quantify the pay-offs from telecommuting in your company or office,
depending on the size of your workforce and how often they telecommute.
More..
Green
Decisions: Case Studies
