At Calpine Energy Solutions, we view renewable energy purchases as an important slice of the energy management portfolio. We employ a sustainable business process with our clients to enable datadriven decisions evaluated through a spectrum of five criteria: governance, cost, risk, carbon and reporting. We refer to the result of utilizing this prism as Sensible SustainabilityTM because the decisions informed by it should be logical in relation to all five criteria.
Calpine Energy Solutions has developed powerful analytical tools and data visualization platforms to support Sensible SustainabilityTM , but the process starts with asking good questions because the answers help define the yang, or governance, that should be applied. We colorfully call our questions the “How Do You Knows”: how do you know when to buy, how do you know how much to buy, how do you know how long to buy, and how do you know how well you performed? The introduction of renewable energy to consumer portfolios in simple terms, adds two additional questions to that list. How do you know where to buy and how do you know what to buy?
