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We empower Chief Sustainability Officers with actionable insights to reduce GHG emissions.

EP’s sustainability platform empowers users to:  

  • Gain Insight
  • Exert Control
  • Drive Accountability

It’s a crowded solution market. Work with a team that has seen it all.

  • Manage ~20,000+ data points to produce 1 integrated ESG report.
  • Ensure accurate ESG metrics.
  • Provide audit-ready data.
  • Conform to ever-growing compliance with principles, frameworks and standards.
  • Show year-on-year progress.
  • Satisfy competing agendas.
  • Fight software implementation fatigue.
  • Succeed with low budgets.

 ESG DATA CONSOLIDATION

Syntiro™ simplifies complex processes and consolidates data from various measured or manually collected sources. Supply chain data collection enables a holistic view of sustainability performance across your value chain.

Customisable dashboards match your unique operations, functionality, and branding. All of this is made accessible via web browsers, phone apps, and MS Teams channels.

Syntiro provides an overview of key Environmental, Social andGovernance metrics, including the following direct benefits:

  • Alignment with voluntary and mandatory carbon reporting frameworks.
  • Business benefits of voluntary ESG disclosures for investor relations and the company’s financial performance.
  • The role of Environmental attributes from the embedded solar PV generation and the accounting impact of selling off renewable energy credits on future carbon footprint strategy.

ENVIRONMENTAL

Measures a company’s impact on the planet, including carbon emissions, energy efficiency, waste management, resource use and climate resilience.

SOCIAL

Evaluates how a company interacts with people and society, including labour practices, diversity & inclusion, community engagement and health & safety.

GOVERNANCE

Assesses corporate leadership, transparency, business ethics, regulatory compliance and risk management.

UTILITY MANAGEMENT

Sustainability is about the effective and efficient use of resources and utilities are one of the core resources needed to operate the business. Utility Management not only forms the foundation of any Sustainability strategy, but in our experience, effective Utility Management yields exponential financial returns and frees up cash flow to pursue more sustainability initiatives.

Syntiro™ enables corporate utility management through, amongst others, meter monitoring, the application of data benchmarking and Ariticial Intelligence (AI). In other words, it ensures correct billing on both a consumption and utility rate dimension for electricity and water (gas, diesel and any other utility and emissions sources) across hundreds of sites, multiple jurisdictions and multiple tariff structures.

Behind Syntiro™ our specialised team deal directly with utility providers to ensure that you only pay (at the correct rate) for what you consume. Since 2010 we have solved more than 350 billing queries and managed to obtain refunds that now exceed R260 million.

Utility monitoring & data analysis

  • Monthly utility metrics
  • Meter data download and tracking of data completeness
  • Monthly utility report dashboard for trend visualisation, tracking and benchmarking

financial & tariff management

  • Tariff engine access for municipal dispute resolution
  • Financial reconciliation (bill capturing, cost analysis, variance tracking
  • Budget accuracy and quality control for accruals and SAP reconciliation

Data integrity & sustainability tracking

  • Data cleaning algorithm for (handling missing/faulty meter data)
  • Tracking of sustainability initiatives (feeding into savings KPI sheets)

SUSTAINABILITY STRATEGY

Work with a team that has garnered global recognition, with some of the biggest corporates in Africa. With more than $90m invested in energy assets that run on hundreds of client sites, we do for our clients what we do for ourselves.

Energy Partners’ objective is to guide clients to align its carbon- and energy initiatives with reporting best practices, and set SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-bound) targets.

Energy Partners’ ESG scoring tool, aligned with GRI reporting requirements, is used to establish a benchmark rating. Environmental targets entail quantitative baseline developments, which highlight compliance with best practices and key areas of improvement, based on the following criteria:

  • Science Based target (carbon neutral or net-zero by 2050)
  • Energy Intensity target (kWh/m², kWh/ton etc.)
  • Renewable energy contribution
  • Absolute energy & carbon emissions reduction (Overall performance %)
  • Building energy efficiency codes / Energy performance certificates alignment (achieve A rating on all owned buildings).

Part of the Sustainability strategy is the identification of Sustainability initiatives including Energy Efficiency Audits & Smart Demand Management.

A strategic energy audit is the first step toward sustainable cost savings. EP Sustainability delivers:

  • Comprehensive energy audits (Level 1, 2, 3) to pinpoint energy-saving opportunities.
  • Strategic focus on developing a Carbon footprint reduction strategy (focussing on Scope 1 direct, Scope 2 indirect and Scope 3 value chain emissions).
  • Smart load & peak demand management to optimize electricity usage.
  • Power factor correction & Grid tariff optimisation, lowering operational costs).
  • Custom sustainability roadmaps, aligning with ESG targets and long-term ROI.
PLAN
  • Develop sustainability strategy
  • Establish materiality
  • Plan implementation horizon
  • Prioritise initiatives
  • Confirm financial impact and budget requirements
DO
  • Develop operational efficiency measures
  • Secure budgets
  • Implement measurability
  • Implement efficiency measures
  • Deploy across value chain
ACT
  • Review plans
  • Adjust approach considering the impacts from the ‘check’ action
  • Inform the strategy and plan to adjust the strategy and implementation plan under the next activity
CHECK
  • Verify progress and benefits realised
  • Verify external factors impacting success
  • Verify impact on planned outcomes
  • Report progress against metrics

WHAT OUR CLIENTS SAY

Growthpoint Properties

Martjie Cloete, sustainability manager

“EP’s expertise in energy efficiency and alternative energy solutions has been invaluable in helping us reduce energy consumption, lower costs, and improve operational efficiency. By implementing innovative solutions and optimising our building management systems, we are making significant strides towards a more sustainable future.”

Netcare limited

ANDRE Nortjie, National environmental sustainability manager

“We needed a credible partner who could provide expert support, relying on the data integrity driven platform. Partnering with EP has allowed Netcare to address these challenges more effectively. We value EP’s expertise and their commitment to driving impactful, sustainable solutions in South Africa. We are proud to work alongside EP in building a more sustainable future, not just for our business, but for our industry as a whole.”

pick n pay

Natasha jansen, senior manager utilites

“The programmed started with in store behaviour, dashboards which have target profiles, energy outside of those parameters are waste. Moved into technology and automation and of course into sustainability with renewable energy. It’s easy to summarise the achievement of the partnership, we use less energy today than we did when the program started with double the number of stores.”

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