decide
The leading digital tool for industrial decarbonization planning
Make decisions based on data, not opinions
Harness the power of mathematical optimization to identify the most cost effective solution
From multi-period transformation pathways to the optimization of a procurement portfolio and the marketing strategy of your assets: decide finds the mathematical optimum for your climate and energy strategy.
How decide helps to decarbonize the industry economically
Depicts technical and economic interrelationships
decide maps your organization’s existing infrastructure into a mathematical model, comprehensively describes the solution space to decarbonize your processes, captures technical interrelationships, and simulates system dynamics based on physical and economic models.
Ensures high speed through a modular approach
Uses a modular approach and builds systems from sub-models. decide comes with a comprehensive component library and is highly flexible, mapping your systems on a project-specific basis.
Finds the cost-optimal solution
Uses the latest mathematical methods and automatically searches the solution space of millions of different solution pathways for the mathematical optimum.
Compares alternative actions and future scenarios at the touch of a button
Compare different technical solution paths or different emission reduction paths at the touch of a button. Find your balance of Capex, Opex and emissions.
Continuous support for your climate management
We operate in a dynamic market environment and a constantly evolving regulatory environment. Conventional climate transition plans are often outdated before they are even handed over to the customer. With our digital planning tool, we integrate current market data directly and adapt your planning to changing conditions at the touch of a button. This allows you to remain agile even under dynamic conditions.
Automates reporting and delivers up-to-date PDF and Excel reports at the touch of a button.
This is what our customers say
Tobias Bauer
Senior Executive Manager Pizza Production Unit
Dr. Oetker GmbH
“With decide, Path to Zero offers an impressive product that has enabled us to analyse a wide range of solutions for decarbonizing our sites, identify the interactions between the measures and thus derive an economic roadmap. The digital planning process has enabled us to adapt and roll out the planning at short notice, also in the event of changed boundary conditions.”
decide is the most advanced tool to steer the industrial decarbonization
Transformation plan
Reconciles economic and ecological targets and identifies the most economical portfolio of measures on the way to zero emissions.
Energy concepts
Evaluates the impact of different technology pathways on Opex, Capex, emissions and energy.
Portfolio optimization
Assesses the market value of PPAs and identifies optimal contract structures and technology mix.
Climate management
Monitors your progress in decarbonization. Adapts planning in a continuous improvement process. Automates sustainability reporting.
Risk management
Evaluates your strategies for different future scenarios. Quantifies financial risks and identifies robust strategies to minimize risk.
Investment evaluation
Evaluates energy-related investments in accordance with DIN EN 17463 (VALERI). Generates saving concepts for the BAFA EEW subsidy.
Scientifically sound and practically proven method
decide is based on AI algorithms and simulation models that were developed over 10 years of research at Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences, the University of Freiburg, and Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, and tested with numerous companies in energy-intensive industries.
Publications
Multi-period investment pathways – Modeling approaches to design distributed energy systems under uncertainty
M Bohlayer, A Bürger, M Fleschutz, M Braun, G Zöttl
Applied Energy 285, 116368, 2021
Investment and Operating Strategies for Distributed Energy Systems – Model-Based Assessment of Integrated Energy Systems, Market Opportunities, and Uncertainty
M Bohlayer
Dissertation, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), 2020
Dekarbonisierung der Papierindustrie – Schlüsseltechnologien, Transformationsstrategien und praktische Case-Study
M Bohlayer, A Bürger
Path to Zero GmbH, 2024
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