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Lightspark Carbon Navigator: carbon-reduction platform

Who Uses Lightspark and Why?

  • Cities: 4500 cities committed to reducing carbon in their buildings, but lack the tools to do this cost-effectively.
  • Banks: 178 Global Banks committed and required to measure and reduce carbon in mortgages, and require both an understanding of emissions on their mortgages and an understanding of loan amounts and home building models to target to meet carbon reduction targets.
  • Utilities: Utilities are facing regulations to reduce emissions through demand-side management using electrification and require carbon measurement predictions on.
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Lightspark Carbon Navigator
Lightspark Carbon Navigator: carbon-reduction platform

If you’re a municipal government, utility or financial institution, Carbon Navigator is your plug-and-play solution to leverage building, behavioral economics, carbon and energy data to design an electrification program that helps your customers save money and reduce carbon

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Benefits of Lightspark Carbon NavigatorTM

Build a Business Case for Funding

  • Simulate the feasibility of difference retrofit scenarios in communities depending on income strata and intent using our behavioral economic analysis.
  • Accelerate buy-in for programs for key stakeholders with a data and evidence-driven roadmap.
  • Understand the costs, energy and carbon savings and jobs created.

Make Your Money Go Further

  • Spend less budget on analysis and more on successfully delivering your program.
  • Identify quick-win buildings that meet your program goals.
  • Use our Carbon Navigator visualization tools to target key zip codes and communities and spend digital advertising dollars more effectively.

Leadership Through Action

  • Scale your program with better data and insights.
  • Utilize Lightspark Carbon Navigator AI to accelerate learnings with smart data models.
  • Utilize Lightspark Engage to go-to-market and demonstrate results with homeowners.
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Our Data Metrics

1. Community Building Data

  • Total carbon and energy distribution used by dwellings in their current state
  • Building types and their “building-as-a-system” and their current technologies
  • Energy burdened households

2. Residential Building Data

  • Home Energy Model includes the types of homes and energy and carbon footprint 
  • Distribution of the different types of dwellings based on vintage, area and energy assets
  • Technical and economic potential per household type

3. Energy and Carbon Cost Data

  • $/GJ and $/GHG program savings potential 
  • Energy and carbon savings for building owners
  • Average $ costs savings for building owners

5. Budget Forecasting

  • Estimated program dollars required
  • Rebates and incentives required
  • Loan and financing required 
  • Estimated jobs created

4. Tax Savings

  • Carbon credit potential 
  • Tax savings potential

This enables city planners to:

Visualize

Building carbon and energy ratings at the household and neighborhood level,

Identify and Evaluate

Opportunities for low-carbon buildings much more quickly and accurately.

Develop Strategies

To reduce carbon, track progress, and ultimately achieve goals much more efficiently and cost-effectively.

Execute and Deliver

Your go-to-market plan, including identifying financing and incentives for retrofit projects.

How It Works

Data-Driven Program Design

By using artificial intelligence to identify, analyze and unlock carbon in your residential building stock data, Lightspark’s program design platform can cut your go-to-market time in half. 

What Customers Are Saying

As defined in Scotiabank’s Net-Zero Pathways Report (released March 2022), Scotiabank is committed to reducing home energy emissions through collaborations to improve home emissions data capture and quality and to increase homeowner awareness and adoption of energy-efficiencies. Today, we are pleased to announce our partnership with Lightspark Software Inc to roll out the Energy Efficiency Concierge platform through a pilot in Calgary and Edmonton. In addition to helping homeowners connect with energy-saving home retrofits and reduce their carbon footprint, the Lightspark Energy Concierge will also provide critical emissions data collection to help financial institutions, cities and utilities address emissions-reduction barriers. 
ScotiabankMeigan Terry, SVP, Chief Sustainability, Social Impact and Communications Officer
Lightspark provided us with a wealth of data that helped us understand the program design options, the total greenhouse gas emissions and energy we could potentially reduce, options for grants and loans we could use to hit those targets, and providing an energy equity lens for assessing options. This work also lays the data foundation for a “virtual” digital home energy audit tool to support our planned home energy retrofit program here in London.”
City of London Senior Manager, Community Energy Initiatives
Lightspark’s program design work for the CIty of Kingston gave critical insights to determining the very hot, hot and warm homes to target for carbon reduction. Using machine learning and data modeling, Lightspark has taken this kind of work to the next level.
City of KingstonProgram Manager, Climate Change
Lightspark’s data solutions can give us a never-before- seen level of clarity on the energy and GHG emissions intensity of our building stock. In addition, their consumer platform shows tremendous potential to simplify energy efficiency decision making for homeowners, which we see as one of the biggest challenges in reaching our municipal housing retrofit targets.
City of KelownaChampion of the Environment
The work completed by Lightspark has contributed not only key quantitative information, but accompanying visuals allowing for easier understanding and communication to decision-makers. By analyzing real data we can provide comprehensive justifications for program development and focus.
City of BurlingtonSenior Analyst
Clean Air Partnership was pleased to work with Lightspark to bring their very practical and usable housing energy analysis expertise and software to a cohort of 7 Ontario municipalities for their residential energy efficiency retrofit market analysis and program design. Better enabling Canadians to act on their carbon reduction opportunities is critical to following through on our climate commitments while advancing the energy efficiency economic development opportunity. Lightspark helps make that a reality.
Clean Air PartnershipGaby Kalapos, Executive Director
One of the challenges we have as a utility offering energy efficiency programs is getting access to the best possible data. Lightspark’ approach should help create a more unified data model, and that will be a positive step for the energy efficiency industry in Canada, and globally.
BC Hydro, PowersmartSenior Director
Lightspark’s platform gets at the heart of the main barrier to effective energy efficiency program design, delivery and customer engagement. Across Canada, the industry has invested heavily is digital infrastructure, and yet we continue to work with disparate data sources. Developing a digital ecosystem that effectively and accurately unifies information to remove this barrier will add significant value to all stakeholders, most importantly end-use customers.
Toronto HydroVP Innovation and Chief Conservation Officer
By incorporating machine learning and other offerings into their platform, Lightspark offers a promising approach to accelerating retrofits in the existing housing stock. We know that a map-based approach, linking it both to strategic planning and directly to consumers could potentially be more effective in targeting demographic segments by building type.
National Resources Canada, NRCan CanmetENERGY LabsJessica Webster, Energy Planning Analyst
Every municipality and climate researcher needs to take a look at this tool. Lightspark has created an extremely timely and useful tool to map carbon in residential areas. As cities transition to Net Zero, they will need to provide user-friendly tools that help citizens take action to reduce their carbon footprint. The Lightspark Platform shows us where our carbon intensity is in the city and where we can take clear actions to reduce it. Every municipality and climate researcher needs to take a look at this tool.
Simon Fraser University, British ColumbiaShauna Sylvester, Executive Director SFU, Morris J Wosk, Centre for Dialogue
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