Sustainability Impact to My Customers

Short Company Description

Construction of BlackRock's new headquarters building in Hudson Yards, NY. BlackRock heavily relied on Schneider Electric Technolgy and products to achieve a best-in-class building energy efficiency and resiliency.

Location:

USA

I am a

Design Firm: Specifying Consultant or Engineer

Segment Type

Other: Investment Management

Company Size

More than 1 billion euro

Is there someone in your organization who is most responsible for these results? If so, please share their name and email address.

Barry Novick barry.novick@blackrock.com

I have been supported by a Schneider Electric contact. If "Yes", please indicate the name of your Schneider Electric contact.

AXEL KRETSCHMER

1. Do you Strategize?

Yes

A. Does your customer have a decarbonization plan with milestones? If so, please share your roadmap/plan.

B. Have you or your customer completed Sustainability School? If so, please share the Sustainability School completion certificate

2. Do you Digitize?

Yes

A. Are you helping a customer deploy centralized utility data management and monitoring software for energy and carbon analysis and reporting?

WaterMark

B. With your help, is a customer metering major energy loads to uncover opportunities to reduce energy consumption and emissions?

Every significant electrical circuit is metered. Every major mechanical system is instrumented for monitoring flow and BTU movement. Our energy consumption is peaking at only 3.8 watts/sf. (About half of a typical NYC office building.)

C. Are you helping a customer monitor energy efficiency and equipment performance to gain actionable insights?

D. Are you enabling a customer to use power management and monitoring solutions to assess power quality and increase business resiliency and continuity?

E. On behalf of a customer, have you deployed innovations to maximize the efficiency and digitalization of their operations?

F. Have you implemented asset upgrades and modernization programs for a customer to optimize and increase the longevity of their plant equipment and avoid emissions ?

G. Have you embraced the digital integration of power and process for a customer as a way to minimize energy consumption while optimizing their process?

3. Do you Decarbonize?

Yes

A. Are you enabling a customer to use automation and energy management systems to control their equipment and systems?

B. With your help, has a customer implemented practices that have increased their energy efficiency?

C. Are you enabling a customer to use renewables (PPAs, EACs, or onsite generation) for at least a portion of their energy needs? What percentage of their electricity is covered by renewables?

D. To minimize Scope 2 emissions, have you helped a customer source energy through offsite renewable energy power purchase agreements or Energy Attribute Certificates?

E. With your help, is a customer using electricity from onsite renewable energy generation to reduce Scope 2 emissions?

F. Have you implemented energy storage for a customer?  Elaborate.

G. Have you equipped a customer to aggregate distributed generation assets to maximize economic value and grid impact?

H. Are you helping a customer reduce carbon emissions by focusing on energy efficiency and decarbonization in their operations?

I. With your help, has a customer reduced their carbon footprint through modernization projects that focus on energy efficiency and decarbonization?

J. Have you helped a customer implement practices to increase energy efficiency in their operations?

K. Have you helped a customer create a commitment program with their suppliers to reduce Scope 3 emissions?

L. With your help, has a customer adopted a commitment program with their upstream suppliers and downstream distribution partners to track and reduce Scope 3 emissions?

M. Have you enabled a customer to use digital modeling to capture embodied carbon data from materials and equipment?

N. Have you helped a customer incorporate electric vehicle charging infrastructure for fleets, employees, and/or customers into their operations? 

O. With your guidance, has a customer converted some of their fleet to electric vehicles?

P. Have you enabled a customer to electrify some of their operations to reduce Scope 1 emissions and enable use of renewables to shrink their carbon footprint? What percentage of your customer's operations have been electrified?

Q. Have you advised a customer to purchase low-embodied carbon materials and equipment?

R. With your help, is a customer using condition-based maintenance to extend equipment life, delay the purchase of new equipment, and reduce the associated embodied carbon?

S. Based on your advice, is a customer purchasing carbon offsets to balance any residual Scope 1 and 3 emissions?

T. Are you helping a customer reduce water usage through improved operations and a focus on efficiency? 

U. Have you enabled a customer to monitor and adjust water usage based on water availability risks and forecasts? 

V. Have you helped a customer create optimization programs for clean-in-place operations, e.g., water and wastewater treatment and recovery programs, focused on efficiency? 

W. With your help, is a customer procuring circular materials and minimizing waste in their operations?

X. Have you helped a customer develop a plan to move their fossil energy-based processes to electrification?

Y(i). Have you helped a customer deploy innovations or circularity business models? Please select all that apply:

Y(ii). What are the results of these innovations?

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