Carbon Compliance Services
GDS offers a full spectrum of carbon compliance consulting services to state and federal energy and environmental agencies, investor-owned utilities, rural electric cooperatives, municipal electric utilities, companies seeking to reduce their carbon footprints, and private investor-aggregators.
The GDS team of engineers, consultants, energy auditors, agricultural advisors, and forest and land use managers provides expertise in electricity and fossil fuel use reduction, renewable energy, biogas and biomass fuel development, and livestock, crop, and forestry production. GDS carbon compliance services include:
Utility Carbon Compliance and Offset Consulting
Carbon compliance policy, regulations, and evolving issues monitoring
Carbon offset planning and verification
Agricultural, industrial, social, and internal carbon credit generation forecasting
Carbon market and investment consulting
Generating unit and generation system efficiency improvements
Carbon tracking/footprint analysis
Technology evaluations
Carbon sequestration and impact reduction strategies including tree planting and energy efficiency
Client-specific compliance strategies development and regulatory response support
Carbon compliance, management, and reduction program development and implementation support
Carbon generation and physical sequestration consultation
Offset Program Implementation
For both the agriculture and forestry industries
Develop and implement comprehensive carbon compliance programs to meet industry and utility needs
Agriculture Expertise in Carbon Credit Generation
Electrical engineering
Farm-based renewable thermal energy production
Waste handling and manure management to achieve methane offsets
Farm energy efficiency evaluation
Crop utilization for carbon sequestration
Energy independence on the farm
Farm renewable electricity options
Carbon accounting and renewable energy crediting
Sustainable agriculture
Forestry and Land Use Planning Expertise for Carbon Sequestration
GDS can help develop plans to better manage right-of-way and land holdings to help meet compliance requirements and develop carbon credit generation including:
Land use planning
Right-of-way vegetation sequestration
Timber management
Renewable Energy Investigation
GDS can identify and investigate potential renewable energy use and production opportunities for individual and territory-specific industrial, agricultural, municipal, commercial and residential applications. Renewable energy and carbon off-set areas include:
Ethanol and bio-diesel fuels
Anaerobic digestion and biogas
Wind energy
Landfill gas-fired generation
Biomass use
Solar Photovoltaic and Solar Thermal