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
- Generating unit and generation system efficiency improvements
- Client-specific compliance strategies development and regulatory response support
- Carbon compliance, management, and reduction program development and implementation support
- Carbon tracking/footprint analysis
- Carbon generation and physical sequestration consultation
- Agricultural, industrial, social, and internal carbon credit generation forecasting
- Technology evaluations
- Carbon offset planning and verification
- Carbon market and investment consulting
- Carbon sequestration and impact reduction strategies including tree planting and energy efficiency
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 energy efficiency evaluation
- Farm renewable electricity options
- Farm-based renewable thermal energy production
- Crop utilization for carbon sequestration
- Waste handling and manure management to achieve methane offsets
- Sustainable agriculture
- Energy independence on the farm
- Carbon accounting and renewable energy crediting
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
- Wind energy
- Biomass use
- Anaerobic digestion and biogas
- Landfill gas-fired generation
- Solar Photovoltaic and Solar Thermal
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