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# What is GreenEdge? | ||
*GreenEdge automates data collection and reporting of greenhouse gas emissions for enterprises. It minimizes the effort and enhances the data quality for reporting and budgets along with a customized dashboard to further engage staff members, partners and customers.* | ||
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**GreenEdge** is made to give controll of your carbon emission footprint by automating the process of collecting the emissions. | ||
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Througout this course we will go through all aspects of GreeEdge, such as *Sites*, *Emissions*, *Reporting*, *Budgets* and more. | ||
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<img src="/images/introduction_1.png"> | ||
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## Basic principles | ||
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### Organizations | ||
*Organizations* reflects the hierarchical structure of your organization, and may be made up of multiple levels which often reflects regions to some level. | ||
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*Organizations* are visible through the navigation of the GreenEdge dashboard. *Organizational* dashboards provides an **aggregated** overview of all *Business units* below. | ||
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*Organizations* cannot be managed through GreenEdge. Changes in the organizational structure is handled through integration with back-end systems. | ||
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### Business units | ||
**Business units** is where it happens! All *Emissions*, *Reporting* and *Budgets* are collected and managed on *Business unit* level. All *Business units* belong to one *Organization*. | ||
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### Sites | ||
A *site* represents any type of facility, such as an office, a warehouse or a store. A *Business unit* may have one or more *sites*, and may share *sites* with other *Business units*. | ||
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*Sites* may optionally be connected where *emissions* such as electricity, heating and water is automatically collected. | ||
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### Emission sources | ||
*Emission sources* are collected in a "raw" format, where unit and scale might differ. For instance, electricity is collected in kWh while diesel might be collected in liters. All *Emission sources* are catagorized and given a **factor**. This factor is used to convert the raw input to CO2-e. | ||
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There are three ways of *Emissions* can be collected: | ||
* Integrated sites | ||
* *Emissions are automatically collected from meters and sensors installed on-site* | ||
* API integration | ||
* *Emissions are collected from calling external vendors or partners* | ||
* File import | ||
* *Emissions are created through file-import* | ||
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### Reporting | ||
GreenEdge comes with a reporting tool that can be used to analyse your carbon emission footprint. While there are many built-in reports, you can also create your own reports. | ||
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### Budgets | ||
Your organization has an overall goal of how to lower the carbon emission footprint. This goal is defined by a "baseline" year, an "target" year together with a percentage of how much it should be lowered. | ||
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Each *Business unit* is given individual budgets aligned with the overall goal. To meet the budget, *Business units* needs to define a number of *Actions*. For instance, an *Action* might be "Switch all lamps to led", or "Only use HVO100 for service vehicles" |