Climate transition plan

Achieve your climate goals with cost-effective investment, procurement, and operational planning

We combine the leading digital industrial transformation planning tool, decide➔ , with the technical expertise of our consultants to find the most economical decarbonization pathways for your organization – from individual sites to the entire group.

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Challenges

Decision-makers are faced with the major challenge of implementing climate targets economically.

Regulatory requirements are increasing, making the 1.5°C compatible mitigation pathway a critical part of the CSRD. Failure to comply can result in significant fines and reputational damage. Economic transformation is only possible if the entire solution space is considered. Alternative production routes, energy efficiency measures, sector coupling, energy conversion and energy procurement must be developed as part of a holistic strategy. The individual fields of action are closely interlinked through technical, economic and ecological interactions. At the same time, the regulatory framework is evolving dynamically and energy market developments are subject to great uncertainty.

The Path to Zero climate transition plan identifies your cost-optimal climate strategy

Our algorithms search your solution space, balance emissions, Capex and Opex, and help you derive strategies from individual sites to the entire corporate group.

How it works

Step 1

Define objectives and record location factors

In the kick-off workshop, you work with our experts to derive transformation goals from your corporate objectives. We record location potentials, existing portfolios of measures and define data requirements.

Step 2

Simple data transmission and data enhancement with the PTZ algorithms

You can easily provide your data using our data upload function. Alternatively, we can retrieve your data from your energy management interface.

We know that data availability and data quality can be limited. Our simulation tools help to fill data gaps and provide benchmarks using standard load curves.

We enrich the data with current market data and integrate the latest market forecasts from our electricity market model inform.

Step 3

Our tool decide takes into account all technical, economic and environmental inter-dependencies

Our transformation planning tool decide➔ considers all relevant interdependencies and simulates your system with hourly steps until 2050.

Identify synergy effects and consistently avoid stranded assets with our scenario-based analyses.

Analyze alternative strategies in the Scenario Explorer.

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Step 4

Path to Zero algorithms calculate the cost-optimized path to achieve your climate targets

decide combines your site-specific boundary conditions with the data basis of our technology database and current market data from our market module inform.

Our algorithms search the solution space in a structured way to find the portfolio that meets your climate goals at the lowest cost. Calculate investment paths, trade strategies, and derive operational strategies to manage your assets.

Step 5

Use the decide Scenario Explorer to evaluate individual strategies, reduction paths and market scenarios

We use our decide➔ Scenario Explorer to analyze the technical solution space. We evaluate the costs of differently ambitious CO₂ reduction paths and forecast the performance of your strategy under different market scenarios. This allows you to balance Capex, Opex, emissions and your risks to find a robust strategy for your site.

Step 6

Group-wide portfolio management and continuous climate management

Our climate transition plan culminates in the introduction of climate management. In addition to a detailed report and all data available for download in Excel format, we provide you with a complete digital representation of your site. When market conditions change, new regulations arise, or new internal planning assumptions are introduced, you can quickly adapt your planning and remain capable of acting even in dynamic developments.

The site is automatically integrated into the group-wide portfolio optimization. Compare CO₂ abatement costs across all sites and allocate investment budgets for maximum impact. This way, you can monitor and manage the group-wide transformation.

This is what our customers say

**Marcus Grothaus**
**Technical Managing Director**
**Scheurich Group (Ceramics industry)**

“Path to Zero supports the Scheurich Group in its group-wide climate transformation. The team’s expertise and the digital solution for transformation planning are unique on the market and convinced us to implement our ambitious emissions reduction targets with Path to Zero. In the pilot project, Path to Zero delivered valuable results under high time pressure. We look forward to continuing our collaboration.”

Which areas of action are taken into account?

A cost-efficient decarbonization strategy leverages potentials across all areas of action. We develop our strategies holistically and capture economic and technical interrelationships with our tools. This way, we find the most cost-effective path for your decarbonization.

Energy efficiency

Increasing energy efficiency by optimizing processes and using efficient technology.

Sector coupling

Efficient provision and storage of electricity, heat, and cooling through the decentralized energy supply system.

Renewable energy

Building a balanced renewable generation portfolio both on and off production sites.

Production

Switching production to alternative production processes and energy sources. Consistent process integration.

Energy procurement

Procuring renewable energy, guarantees of origin, and emission certificates through a balanced procurement portfolio.

Flexibility

Increasing self-consumption, optimizing grid fees, and participating in spot and balancing power markets.

Case study

Decarbonization of the
paper industry

Key technologies, transformation strategies and practical case studies

#CSRD, #1,5°C-Pathways, #CarbonZero

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Up to 70% funding for transformation plans from BAFA (Federal Office for Economic Affairs and Export Control).

In our resources section, we provide you with further information on the EEW module 5 funding program and a comprehensive checklist for applying for BAFA funding.

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The Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action supports companies in their transformation towards climate neutrality through the Energy and Resource Efficiency in Business program. The EEW module 5 Transformation Plan assists in deriving long-term emission reduction pathways.

The funding program supports companies in developing their concepts with up to €60,000. The funding rate is 40% of the costs for large enterprises, 50% for medium-sized enterprises, and 60% for small enterprises.

Participation in a network of the Initiative for Energy Efficiency and Climate Protection Networks (IEEKN) increases the funding rate by 10% and the maximum funding grant to €90,000.

We support the Industrienetzwerk Dekarbonisierung und Energieeffizienz (IDEE) of our partner IREES GmbH.

FAQ – Frequently asked questions

A transformation plan is a kind of roadmap for strategic planning and supports companies in decarbonizing their processes. It serves as a strategic tool with which companies can define individually tailored measures and decarbonization targets to achieve long-term climate neutrality. At a time when sustainable transformation is becoming increasingly important both ecologically and economically, a clearly and precisely defined transformation concept helps to achieve emission targets in a cost-optimal and efficient manner.

To create a transformation plan (formerly also known as a transformation concept), the current status of the emission-relevant processes is first analyzed. The target state, which is to be achieved by 2045 at the latest, is then defined and the path to achieve this is then worked out. As part of Module 5 of the federal funding program for Energy and Resource Efficiency in Business (EEW), up to 70% of the costs of creating such a plan are eligible for funding.

The primary aim of a transformation plan is to reduce the CO₂ emissions of the company in question in order to meet the statutory climate targets and thus contribute to the global climate protection strategy. In addition, a transformation plan can be used to anchor the topic of environmental sustainability in the corporate strategy in the long term. The transformation concept can also help to secure the company’s competitiveness in the long term, as customers, investors and business partners will increasingly value green products in the future.

The term “transformation plan” replaces the previously used term “transformation concept”. However, both terms describe the same concept and approach.

A transformation plan:

supports companies in implementing their legal requirements and climate targets,
shows a clear path to climate neutrality,
can promote competitiveness and security for the future in the long term, as customers, investors and business partners often prefer companies that are proactively committed to sustainable transformation,
avoids reputational damage and fines resulting from non-fulfilment of regulatory compliance (e.g. Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive, CSRD),
enables the credible implementation of a company’s social responsibility to actively contribute to climate protection.

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