Oil & Gas Industry Excellence Award Winner - CenterPoint Energy
Customer Company Size
Large Corporate
Region
- America
Country
- United States
Product
- Sphera Essential Suite software
- Sphera Environmental Performance Solution
- Sphera CyberRegs
Tech Stack
- Environmental Management System (EMS)
- Mobile devices for data entry
Implementation Scale
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
Impact Metrics
- Productivity Improvements
- Environmental Impact Reduction
- Digital Expertise
Technology Category
- Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Exchange & Integration
Applicable Industries
- Oil & Gas
- Utilities
Applicable Functions
- Maintenance
- Quality Assurance
Use Cases
- Regulatory Compliance Monitoring
- Remote Asset Management
- Predictive Maintenance
Services
- System Integration
- Data Science Services
About The Customer
CenterPoint Energy, Inc., headquartered in Houston, Texas, is a domestic energy delivery company that includes electric transmission & distribution, natural gas distribution, competitive natural gas sales and services, interstate pipelines and field services operations. Since its launch as a stand-alone company in 2002, the company has been committed to the highest-quality energy delivery, while operating in an environmentally responsible manner. Its leadership team is intent on ensuring that their facilities are in compliance with current regulations and that their management team is actively partnering with other organizations in the development of future environmental laws and industry best practice guidelines.
The Challenge
In 2010, CenterPoint Energy stepped up to address one especially critical environmental management challenge facing US energy companies – global climate change. The company’s Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Program team began implementation of an enterprise-level Environmental Management System (EMS) that is significantly enhancing their ability to maintain compliance with mandatory government regulations as well as voluntary sustainability reporting. CenterPoint Energy had previously managed its environmental reporting processes with hundreds of spreadsheets that were separately developed and maintained at its many facilities. But, to meet more rigorous information management demands imposed by a new generation of regulations, including the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) GHG Mandatory Reporting Rule (MRR), and voluntary reporting to non-governmental organizations such as the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), senior managers realized that complying with these complex new requirements using spreadsheets would be inefficient and potentially risky.
The Solution
CenterPoint Energy experts evaluated leading systems on the market and selected Sphera Essential Suite software – part of the Sphera Environmental Performance Solution™ – to serve as the foundation for the company’s EMS. Since concern about proliferating state and federal mandates was a primary driver for this project, CenterPoint Energy’s team also implemented Sphera CyberRegs® as part of their new Environmental Management System. With Sphera CyberRegs – an online regulatory content service that is integrated with Sphera Essential Suite – they can track regulatory requirements and facilitate the assignment and tracking of tasks at the operational level to ensure end-to-end compliance. CenterPoint Energy’s environmental management team is also introducing technology innovations to enhance the quality and timeliness of its data. Mobile devices are helping them improve data integrity by eliminating the need to fat-finger data into spreadsheets, which would eventually cause a problem with those calculations.
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