As we move into a carbon-constrained environment, PEL companies can help your organisation address the many challenges that lie ahead. In particular, PAEHolmes can help companies understand the implications of the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Act 2007 (NGER), and help in all the mandatory  emissions reporting and recording requirements necessary for compliance within the framework of the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting System (NGERS).  

For over 10 years, we have led the way in developing strategies and technologies in carbon footprint analysis and greenhouse gas emissions. PAEHolmes for example has been immersed in this important environmental issue long before its current level of concern.

PAEHolmes can provide complete carbon management and greenhouse gas assessment services to assist organisations participate in emissions trading and understand the risks and opportunities presented by carbon-constrained economies.

Services include:

• Greenhouse gas emission measurement, equipment and advice
PAEHolmes can provide advice in the selection of measurement equipment and the development of reporting procedures and methodologies for greenhouse emissions management. Emissions trading schemes place a monetary value on greenhouse emissions, so ensuring effective measurement and reporting of greenhouse emissions is imperative to realising value and controlling carbon compliance risk.

• Opportunity identification, technology review
PAEHolmes can identify and evaluate technologies to lower greenhouse emissions. Our team of chemical and environmental engineers can evaluate the benefits of a project employing numerical modelling to determine key asset financial performance measures (such as NPV and IRR). Models would incorporate key project variables such as carbon cost and fuel cost to underpin decision making and project evaluation. Because no two projects are ever the same, we can tailor models of investment performance to individual projects taking account of specific sensitivities. This would enable investors to readily identify opportunities and manage risks for each project.

• Life cycle assessment and carbon footprinting
PAEHolmes staff are experts in the evaluation of product life cycles. Life cycle assessment describes the systematic evaluation of the environmental impact of a product or project though all stages of its life cycle, from its manufacture to its disposal and recycling. Emerging regulations are increasingly demanding life cycle style assessment and life cycle assessments will increasingly be an integral qualifier for the procurement of goods and services to major companies. Life cycle assessment is particularly useful for determining secondary exposure to carbon constraints. If a component or a stage in the product life cycle is particularly carbon intensive (for example, in its transportation) it can have ramifications to the production cost and economics of its ultimate consumer market, despite not being under the direct control of the producer.

• Data collection and management systems for reporting and compliance
PAEHolmes excel at dealing with complex data, it has been a core discipline since the company’s inception. PAE can develop customised data management solutions that allow key decision makers to realise opportunities and control risks associated with emissions.

• Complete Greenhouse emission inventory development and verification services
PAEHolmes have the skills to develop greenhouse emission inventories on all scales from single installations to national spatially allocated regulatory tools. PAE emission inventories can be developed to satisfy any required compliance and reporting regime.

• Methodology development
PAEHolmes has extensive experience in the development of emission estimation methodologies for regulatory bodies and complex industrial processes. This experience will underpin our ability to develop process- specific methodologies for carbon offsets and credits generated by emerging technologies and techniques not yet accepted by carbon markets. We can develop these methodologies to a standard that would allow international acceptance and commodisation of generated emission credits.