By and large engineers have built the world in which we all live and do business; from buildings and infrastructure, to the systems that support life in the modern world. With the current state of the environment in steady decline, we as engineers must heed the call to innovate and elevate the standards that will lead us to an enlightened tomorrow.
Engineers can’t legislate policy, but we can innovate solutions that have not yet been engineered. On Wednesday May, 21 st , 2008, a local emissions fee passed in Northern California. Bay Area air regulators voted overwhelmingly to impose the first-ever carbon fees in the United States, foreshadowing further-reaching regulation to come. A key author and driving force behind the fee structure was Brian Bateman, director of engineering at the Bay Area Air Quality Management District.
With regulation setting the bar for standards, engineers are being looked to more than ever to create solutions through innovation. As an engineer my mission has been to develop systems that enable eps corp’s customers to be both compliant and competitive in response to regulations and changing priorities from the corporate boardroom to the end customer. In fact, that’s what why we founded the company, seven years ago.
eps corp was founded in 2001 by me and three other engineers from a leading energy company. Seven years later, we continue our commitment to a customer-centric culture and are relentlessly innovating new solutions to help companies and organizations reduce their energy use and reduce their carbon emissions.
xChange Point, our latest offering, is the culmination of our work over the past five years. The hardware/software system provides users with an eagle-eye view of a company’s energy usage, from multiple plants, down to facilities sub-systems – even as detailed as the carbon created in the manufacture of a single unit product.
Great solutions can evolve from engineers, and there is no better time than now to bring these innovations to the light of day. At eps corp, we are seeking compelling solutions for climate change daily – and there is no single one solution or magic bullet. With this in mind, we think there are plenty of great ideas in need of great engineering, and we encourage our peers to bring them market. Together, we can engineer a cleaner world.