Siemens and BayWa advance CO2

Technology company Siemens has teamed up with BayWa to advance CO2-optimised industrial production.

As part of a pilot project, the two companies will combine Siemens’ software for emissions management with BayWa’s software for emissions offsetting.

Called Carbon Connect, the BayWa software is the digital arm of the BayWa Carbon Services Business Unit, which helps companies combine climate management with emissions offsetting, supported by digitalisation.

The Siemens solution, Sigreen, allows producing companies to quantify the effectiveness of measures to use renewable energies, save resources, and shorten transportation routes across the value chain.

By combining the technologies, the duo hope to help industrial enterprises better understand product-specific emissions across the supply chain.

In the future, this will help industrial enterprises understand product-specific emissions across the supply chain and all the way to their offsetting.

The first step is identification of a product’s real carbon footprint across the supply chain using Sigreen, after which measures are derived for avoiding CO2 and, finally, emissions that are currently unavoidable are offset by purchasing CO2 certificates from trusted climate protection projects via BayWa Carbon Connect.

Only projects that store CO2 – for example, in biomass – are selected for the joint pilot project.

Steffen Winkler, Business Unit Lead of IT Products and Services at BayWa AG and Head of BayWa Carbon Services, notes that the lack of transparency when it comes to emissions management has meant that companies have been unable to fully trust the neutralization and compensation measures of their own supply chain.

He continued, “I believe that by combining BayWa Carbon Connect and Sigreen, we’ve paved the way for uniform quality standards within the supply chain, and in this way have taken an important transformative step toward credible emissions offsetting in industry.”

Dr. Gunter Beitinger, Senior Vice-President of Manufacturing, Factory Digitalisation and Sigreen at Siemens, added, “The declared vision of this joint pilot project is a consistent, end-to-end process that is reliable and certified, from the generation of unavoidable carbon emissions to the ultimate removal of these emissions from the atmosphere.”

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