Power Gen Environmental Transformation

Delivering a Step Change in Compliance & Performance for a Fortune 500 Power Gen Enterprise
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  CONTEXT

For a Fortune 500 power generation enterprise, environmental compliance and performance are paramount to success and the license to operate. Demonstrating good environmental stewardship is a critical element of day-to-day operations.

Our client needed a step change in their approach—standardizing processes and automating data capture to improve quality, reduce reportable incidents, and streamline submission to regulators. Multiple data sources (real-time systems, lab data, manual field logs) and varying site practices compounded the challenges.

Working side-by-side with the client, ACT Solutions & Consulting delivered a transformation focusing on both process improvement and robust digital products to drive high-quality outcomes at speed and scale.

  Case Study Summary


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Vision

Our client sought a standardized, streamlined solution for managing environmental data and compliance across multiple sites—enabling transparency, consistency, and minimized risk of reportable incidents.

  • Automated collection and integration of lab, field, and real-time data
  • Standard workflows for data quality checks & final reporting
  • Regulator-ready submission to agencies (e.g., EPA NetDMR)
  • Dashboards and analytics for managers and plant personnel
  • Flexible foundation to scale to new sites and regulations
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Value

By focusing on both business processes and enabling digital products, our client realized significant benefits:

  • Quality & Compliance – Dramatically fewer errors, missed submissions, and incidents
  • Efficiency – >6,000 work hours eliminated annually
  • Cost Savings – Over $200k saved in licensing & manual overhead costs
  • Transparency – Real-time insights and status tracking for leadership
  • Scalability – Standardized platform & approach for easy expansion
  • Velocity – Rapid build & deployment with minimal rework and maintenance
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Velocity & Performance

We track metrics on every engagement to drive continuous improvement.

  • 70% reduction in reportable environmental incidents
  • < 3 months from discovery to releasing the first product
  • Close collaboration with pilot team minimized re-work and maximized scalability
  • Laid foundation for additional regulatory modules and site rollouts

  TOOLS

The primary application for 40+ users to track regulatory permits, prepare over 10 compliance deliverables, and report environmental incidents. The app provides workflow stewardship of environmental team so following the process was simple and intuitive.

Primary engine behind integrating with external data sources and processing data and converting files.

Leveraged dashboards to replace frequent meetings and manual reporting across the team and to executives. The status tracking drove accountability and ownership while providing transparency to key stakeholders. The historical dataset enabled trending environment parameters with analytics in a way that wasn't previously possible enabling new insights.

Leveraged SharePoint Lists for data tables used by the app and automation and storing any uploaded or created documents.

The 15 products created used both user data as well as external data sources including the EPA's data sourced through several API endpoints, OSI PI for real-time data, and laboratory data through LIMs and automated processing (and conversion) of excel spreadsheets, and several other data sources