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CO₂Sight decarbonization and energy planning platform

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Develop a line of sight toward your decarbonized future with CO₂Sight, the only analytics and action planning framework with ICF expertise built in.

Fast-start materials

Move quickly using established processes and documentation based on 50 years of implementing climate and energy programs.

Broad model library

Analyze interdependencies for your specific organization, sectors, programs, and technologies.

Visual dashboard

Drive action with confidence and build your case to stakeholders through clear data visualizations.

Real-world outcomes

Identify policies and programs that are specific, actionable, and measurable for your organization.

Wired for high stakes energy and GHG emissions decision-making

ICF CO₂Sight harnesses decades of ICF’s experience designing energy and climate policies and programs—across sectors and technologies—into a unified scenario analysis environment ready for your input.

Screen at a high-level or take a granular look at sectors of interest. Compare alternative scenarios and building an optimized pathway to an end goal. Assess relative costs of integrated reduction solutions. Then educate external stakeholders and set priorities to make your business case and drive action.

The ICF Climate Center

Insights and research that combine experience, science and predictive analytics to advance climate conversations.

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Decarbonization

Use the calculation power of CO₂Sight to visualize programs that meet your regulatory requirements even while forecasted factors are shifting. Experiment with scenarios to define the right degree of electric energy and vehicle use while staying in the range of feasibility for your operation. Then see your long term plan accounting for building, transport, and power generation on the same platform.

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Electrification

Stay ahead of customers’ rush to electric energy by forecasting demand and tuning delivery. Visualize investment strategies and programs to address increasing usage in electric vehicles, building heating and cooling, and industrial processes while still keeping customer cost down and your profits up. CO₂Sight tracks the policy and technology factors of your electrified future while informing adjacent issues like decarbonization and the role of gas based solutions.

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Distributed energy resources (DERs), energy efficiency, and demand response

Visualize how DERs will help you shape and manage customer-sited assets to benefit your customers and the grid. Determine the value of individual or a portfolio of DERs. Automatically account for broad factors like photovoltaic, storage, demand response, efficiency, and more. Design, optimize, and deploy flexible DER programs that will scale and help you achieve your clean energy goals.

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Customer insights and incentives

Understand how end-users and stakeholders value energy efficiency, resilience, reliability, rate-affordability, and GHG emissions reductions. CO₂Sight leverages behavioral economics, market research, and years of participation experience to understand willingness-to-pay to various offers, initiatives, and policies ensuring your programs are supported and impactful. CO₂Sight further helps you develop rebates and incentives that are “just right”, and informs evolution of program offers over time.

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Scenarios you can see

Choose from a menu of models that work together cohesively to visualize outcomes impacting:

GHG emissions
Energy demand and supply
Costs and benefits
Equity and energy access
Air quality and public health
Economic development and jobs
Return on investment
Competitiveness
Utility rates

Forged in the field

CO₂Sight is built on consulting experience in both public and private sectors.

Your sector, your factors

Energy and GHG emissions sources

Electricity production
Ground transportation
Industrial
Cogeneration
Agriculture
Land use
Aviation
Natural gas extraction, transportation, and use

Technologies

Solar
BTM storage
Heat pumps
Electric vehicles
Energy efficiency
Demand response
DERs
Renewable natural gas
Hydrogen
Electrification

Local market assumptions

GHG emissions factors
Customer demographics
Equipment saturation
Baseline practices
Market maturity
Grid and distribution system capacity and costs
Regulatory policy
Rates
Community policy and commitments
Stakeholder perspectives

Programs and policies

Incentive programs
Codes and standards
Procurement policies
Financing
Technical support
Awareness
Labeling
Benchmarking and disclosure

Benefits and costs

Program delivery costs
Energy, capacity, locational, and temporal savings
Customer O&M savings
Grid flexibility and diversity value
GHG emissions reductions and valuation
Resiliency improvements
Health impacts
Job creation
Water and land use impacts

Co₂Sight was recognized with a 2022 Environment+Energy Leader Top Product Award for excellence and innovation in providing organizations with environmental and energy benefits.

Expertise built in

Steve Fine

Vice President, Distributed Grid Strategy + ICF Climate Center Senior Fellow

Haider Khan

Senior Director, Energy Analytics

Deb Harris

Senior Director, Climate Planning + ICF Climate Center Senior Fellow

David Pickles

Senior Vice President: Strategy, Energy, Environment, and Infrastructure

Duncan Rotherham

Vice President, Beneficial Electrification

Patty Cook

Senior Vice President, Market Development, Distributed Flexibility Solutions

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Talk to an energy or climate expert about putting ICF CO₂Sight to work for you.

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