Environmental data infrastructure for the full utility value chain
Carbon accounting in energy utilities spans the full value chain from owned and operated assets to purchased energy and downstream customer use, each with different data, methodologies, and boundaries. Minimum helps you make sense of it all.
Facts about energy utility firms and your environmental data:
Your portfolio is in constant flux due to acquisitions, repowerings, divestments, and JVs.
You rarely have full visibility - co-ownerships, PPAs, and vendor-run sites complicate attribution and access to data
Your value chain is vast and varied encompassing generation, transmission, distribution and retail - each with its own nuances
Your emissions data is fragmented across teams with generation, trading, grid, and retail managing their own systems and standards.
You report across voluntary frameworks and binding regulations like the EU ETS, often with overlapping timelines and conflicting requirements.
Your asset base is diverse and always shifting - your emissions data needs to reflect that
You need a platform that adapts to your evolving portfolio and helps you model emissions across technologies, ownership structures, and regulatory jurisdictions.
Track emissions across every segment - from gas turbines to distributed renewable
Whether you're reallocating grid emissions, attributing joint venture impacts, or preparing reports for multiple regulators, Minimum helps you build a carbon inventory that mirrors your operations and your obligations. Explore Minimum’s step-by-step features that will help you maintain accurate and timely data.
Inventory mapping
Data ingestion
Calculations & Auditability
Reporting & insights
Integration
Inventory mapping
You manage extensive, multi-entity portfolios that evolve constantly
- Diverse operating models across the value chain: emissions occur across generation (fossil, renewable), transmission, distribution, and retail - each with distinct asset types, control structures, and accounting boundaries.
- Frequent changes in ownership and operations: power plants are bought, sold, repowered, or partially owned — while PPAs, leasing, and grid partnerships require flexible emissions attribution.
- Limited centralised visibility: you operate with decentralised teams or business units, leading to siloed data ownership and inconsistent boundaries.
Minimum’s purpose-built solutions
- Model your footprint by business line, generation type, and ownership structure: track emissions by utility segment - from gas turbines to EV charging networks - and reflect operational and/or financial control.
- Reflect historical and structural changes over time: maintain inventory continuity across acquisitions, repowerings, and grid rebalancing.
- Capture every asset in your portfolio, no matter how it's owned: from co-owned plants to community solar PPAs, keep a consistent view across all carbon-relevant infrastructure.
Data ingestion
You ingest activity data from high-frequency systems, human processes, and third parties
- Volume and variety across systems: SCADA, EMS, AMI, and fuel billing systems all generate relevant data but in different formats and at different cadences.
- Incomplete digitisation at older or third-party facilities: some assets still rely on manual meter reads, emailed fuel invoices, or vendor spreadsheets.
- Disparate data ownership across functions: generation, transmission, and retail teams often manage their own data, creating inconsistency and duplication.
Minimum’s purpose-built solutions
- Ingest structured and unstructured data from any utility system: whether it's SCADA logs, paper invoices, or contractor uploads - we turn it into structured activity data.
- Unify high-frequency and low-frequency data feeds: configure ingestion schedules around hourly telemetry or quarterly billing cycles.
- Standardise disparate inputs into one emissions-ready dataset: harmonise formats and fill in gaps across fuel sources, metering, and purchased energy.
Calculations
Your carbon footprints are large, complex, and subject to regulatory scrutiny
- Calculation complexity across Scope 1 and 2: fossil-fired generation requires fuel-specific emissions factors, while Scope 2 emissions vary by market structure, grid mix, and procurement type.
- Expanding Scope 3 boundaries and expectations: your stakeholders increasingly expect transparency on upstream fuel extraction, construction of infrastructure, and downstream energy usage.
- Methodologies must align with evolving standards: regulatory schemes (ETS, IRPs), voluntary commitments (SBTi, CDP), and investor scrutiny demand tailored, traceable logic.
Minimum’s purpose-built solutions
- Apply fuel- and location-specific factors for Scope 1 and 2: reflect real emissions using country, utility, or grid-level factors.
- Model Scope 3 emissions for energy inputs and outputs: capture lifecycle emissions of fuels, capital goods, and customer consumption.
- Ensure transparency and traceability throughout: every assumption, source, and calculation step is recorded and auditable - internally or externally.
Reporting & insights
You need to generate insights across asset classes, geographies, and reporting frameworks
- Internal teams need different views of the same data: traders want intensity per MWh, engineers want asset-specific KPIs, and ESG teams need portfolio-level roll-ups.
- Multiple regulatory reporting frameworks apply simultaneously: from jurisdictional GHG schemes to EU CSRD, taxonomies, and voluntary initiatives.
- Stakeholders expect clear, frequent insights: including regulators, board members, and increasingly, customers and investors.
Minimum’s purpose-built solutions
- Visualise emissions by asset, fuel type, or business line: create dashboards for operations, strategy, and compliance - all fed from a unified data source.
- Configure KPIs that reflect how your business operates: track emissions per MWh generated, per customer served, or per grid region.
- Streamline compliance reporting: generate outputs for national regulators, ESG frameworks, and internal review.
Integration
Your environmental data lives across technical, financial, and operational ecosystems
- Multiple source data system: BMS, SCADA, ERP, trading systems, and emissions registries rarely share data natively.
- Cadence mismatch across systems: SCADA streams every 5 minutes, while emissions reporting may happen only annually or quarterly.
- Data needs to flow to multiple stakeholders: sustainability, strategy, regulatory affairs, and risk all need access.
Minimum’s purpose-built solutions
- Connect to any system via flexible API or flat file integration: whether you’re pulling SCADA data or pushing to ESG tools.
- Ingest and output at the right cadence for each use case: schedule automated syncs or ad hoc uploads depending on system maturity.
- Feed structured data into analytics, reporting, and compliance tools: let carbon insights flow where they’re needed.
Collaboratively transform fragmented data into clean, automated insights that are audit-ready
Footprint calculations are only as good as the data behind them - and in automotive, that data can be messy. Minimum's platform automates the heavy lifting, providing you seamless collaboration and control over the process so that you can trust every number and explain every figure.
Explore Minimum’s cross-cutting features below that will underpin your carbon journey.
Auditability
Your emissions must be defensible across jurisdictions and asset types
- Audit trails are often fragmented or incomplete: calculation logic, emissions factors, and input records are scattered across spreadsheets, internal systems, and emails.
- Verification is resource-intensive and painful: preparing for third-party assurance or regulatory review involves weeks of manual evidence gathering.
- Traceability is challenging across joint ventures and third-party operated assets: where visibility into raw inputs is limited.
Minimum’s purpose-built solutions
- Maintain a consistent, end-to-end audit trail: from raw data to final output, every figure is traceable and explained.
- Consolidate source data and methodologies in one place: reduce audit preparation time and remove reliance on local spreadsheets.
- Make attribution models transparent and reviewable: clarify how shared or externally managed assets are represented.
Project Management & Control
Coordinating emissions data across business lines, sites, and teams is a logistical challenge
- Responsibility is distributed across functions and regions: different teams manage different parts of the emissions inventory, often with minimal coordination.
- Deadlines are misaligned or unclear: data collection may follow financial year cycles, regulatory calendars, or project timelines, which creates confusion.
- Submission status is hard to track in real-time: especially in large portfolios with multiple contributors and limited central oversight.
Minimum’s purpose-built solutions
- Track submission progress across people, regions, and sites: see exactly what’s been collected, what’s missing, and where blockers sit.
- Automate task assignments, follow-ups, and approvals: keep data owners and reviewers engaged without micromanagement.
- Stay ahead of deadlines with real-time dashboards: monitor status by reporting obligation, business line, or geography.
Collaboration & Engagement
You rely on broad contributor networks - from grid operators to fuel vendors to contractors
- Many contributors have limited carbon literacy: plant engineers, joint venture managers, or third-party O&M teams may not understand emissions factors or protocols.
- Scope 3 data requires deep supplier engagement: including fuel lifecycle data, construction contractors, and even customer-level electricity use.
- Submission processes vary widely: from automated API uploads to emailed spreadsheets to scanned invoices.
Minimum’s purpose-built solutions
- Offer contributor portals with guided, simplified workflows: ensure that even non-technical users can provide accurate, structured data.
- Assign tasks and communicate directly in-platform: reduce delays and miscommunication with live status tracking.
- Engage suppliers and partners with structured Scope 3 workflows: build repeatable, scalable processes for gathering high-quality external data.
