The strategy of the Municipality of Hankasalmi sets the goal of becoming a carbon neutral municipality by 2035. To support this goal, the municipality began preparing a carbon neutrality program for the years 2026–2035. At the same time, a way was needed to track properties' energy consumption, energy efficiency, and emissions development in practice.
Hannu Lampinen, the property manager responsible for the municipality's 15 properties, recognized the need for a concrete tracking tool:
"When you start planning and implementing measures, it would be good to track it yourself and to be able to report on the progress effortlessly."
The starting point was familiar to many municipalities. The consumption and property data existed, but it was scattered across different systems. Property-specific analytics were unavailable, and the municipality lacked the resources to build its own reporting model.
Selko Insights' Selko Property solution brought the municipality's properties into a single view, without a time consuming implementation or separate analytics work. The municipality provides the source data in Excel format, after which the data is imported into the reporting view.
The tool tracks the energy consumption of the entire property portfolio, the development of emissions, energy and emissions intensity, and the key figures of individual properties. The analytics compare the properties' development against the energy and emissions reduction pathways of the CRREM standard, which are based on the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement and take into account both the building type and the country-specific characteristics.
The tool is used in particular in preparing the carbon neutrality program and in tracking future measures. According to Lampinen, practicality also weighed in during adoption:
"All of this would be nice to tinker with yourself, but it takes an enormous amount of time, and that's away from something else."
Adoption begins with the municipality's office and facility properties. In the future, the properties of the municipality's subsidiaries can also be brought into the same view.
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