Programme · Nov 2025 to present
Analytical owner across the pilot portfolio
Five pilot companies inside a regional decarbonisation programme run with a public partner organisation, each carrying its own initiative from first data request to a board-level go or no-go.
pilot companies in the portfolio
full fleet electrification studies led end to end
tonnes CO2 per year in the largest single baseline
cubic metres per year, first measured water baseline
The brief
The programme pairs a regional climate partner with a set of local companies willing to put a decarbonisation initiative through a real feasibility process rather than a workshop. Five companies were in the portfolio. My side of it was the analysis: whatever each company needed measured, modelled and defended, I owned end to end.
The five sat in different sectors and at different stages, so no two ran the same way. Two were heavy transport and became full electrification studies. One was a process-water problem in surface treatment. One was compressed air and condition monitoring in precision manufacturing. One never got past scoping.
The portfolio
Named by sector only. Each ran on its own timeline with its own initiative.
Feed and heavy transport
Study completed through seven numbered versions plus a forensic audit and an independent validation pass. Chief executive briefed and the concept approved, with real-world testing requested before any capital commitment.
Waste and recycling transport
Management briefing delivered, combined energy-transition case built, positioned as the programme's public reference story for the quarter.
Cold forging and surface treatment
Buildable design locked against the existing tank topology, projecting a 90 to 95 percent cut in wastewater. Management committed in principle on a 2030 horizon, driven by incoming EU best-available-technique rules.
CNC manufacturing
Two initiatives taken to decision-ready. The first returns roughly DKK 278k a year against DKK 30k net capital, a payback measured in weeks rather than years, and needed no new equipment beyond a leak audit and a pressure reset.
Agriculture
Scoped but dormant. No data, no meetings, no analysis on record. Reported as dormant rather than as a pipeline number, and flagged for a partner introduction to restart it.
Deliverables
A single document putting all five pilots side by side: stage, likelihood, economics, the specific ask of the partner for each one, and an honest restatement of the programme milestone.
Each one covering duty-cycle analysis from measured telematics, a ten-year total cost of ownership model, charging infrastructure sizing against metered depot load, and a phased conversion recommendation.
Measured baselines and investment cases for the water, compressed air and condition monitoring initiatives, each with capital cost, annual saving, payback and the CO2 effect.
Metered load data across three and a half years turned into a straight answer on how much charging each site can host tonight with no grid work, and what an upgrade would buy.
Actions
Problems and solutions
Every project has these. They are more informative than the finished result, so they are on the page.
Problem
The programme's original goal was two approved initiatives by the end of May. That date passed with the analysis done but no formal sign-offs.
Solution
Reported it plainly rather than reframing it. The briefing said the milestone had passed, showed that the blocker was management decision velocity and not analysis, and proposed a revised target of two to three approvals by the following quarter with each pilot's specific gate named. A target that is missed and restated is more useful to a partner than one that is quietly moved.
Problem
One of the five pilots had produced nothing: no meetings, no data, no analysis.
Solution
It went into the portfolio table as dormant, with its likelihood marked accordingly, and turned into a concrete ask of the partner for an introduction. Carrying a dead pilot as a live one would have cost credibility the first time anyone asked about it.
Problem
Five companies in five sectors meant five different analytical problems, and no shared method to lean on.
Solution
What generalised was the discipline rather than the model: measured baseline first, conservative assumptions, explicit reliability grading, and one recommendation at the end. The water case and the compressed air case share no arithmetic with the fleet studies, but they are graded and defended the same way.
Outcome
Analysis is no longer the bottleneck anywhere in the portfolio. Four of the five pilots hold a case that management can act on, and the one that does not is honestly labelled. The two fleet studies became the basis of the platform's first licensable product.
What it took