By investing in credit360's award-winning solution, ewz, one of Switzerland's largest energy providers is introducing a consistent, standardised process for collecting and reporting environmental data, pulling together scattered sustainability information from across the organisation. The final decision by ewz was made after a thorough evaluation of more than fifteen software vendors.
"We chose credit360 because of its functional offerings, flexibility and scalability which allows precise data collection across the complex structure of our organisation," says Gerhard Emch, Head of Operational Sustainability, ewz. "Furthermore, we were impressed by its ability to integrate a large amount of historical data and its analysis and visualisation features which will make it easier for us to report against the latest GRI standard."
A government organisation owned by the City of Zurich, ewz is Switzerland´s biggest energy service provider by revenue and delivers electricity and services to 220,000 customers. Primarily focusing on investing in renewable energy, ewz is a role model for environmentally responsible electricity production and has an established track record in internal sustainability management.
ewz has collated an impressive amount of performance data in the course of its long-standing ISO 14001 environmental management system. Having previously collected energy and carbon data manually via spreadsheets, ewz recognised that automating and scaling its data collection process via a centralised system would be fundamental to streamlining its information management activities and making communication more relevant - internally as well as externally. The credit360 system will help the company to consolidate vital environmental data across its grid, power plants and holdings in Switzerland and various European countries to work out areas with material impacts and potential for improvement.
ewz joins leading organisations from various sectors already using credit360, including Swiss Re, Nestlé and Otto Group.
"Accurate, reliable data management is vital to public sector organisations like ewz as they not only seek to improve their environmental performance but also want to continue being at the fore-front of solving sustainability issues," says Mark Shields, Managing Director, credit360. "We work in close partnership with our German speaking clients to ensure our system is precisely configured to track the fundamental data needed to tackle specific sustainability targets."
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