Emissions Collection, Monitoring, and Data Reporting for Electricity Providers

U.S. electricity providers are subject to various air regulations and programs, including the Clean Air Allowance Trading Program, Acid Rain Program, Cross-State Air Pollution Rule, Texas SO2 Trading Program, Good Neighbor Plan, Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, and Mercury and Air Toxics Standard. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Air Markets Division (CAMD) needed an IT solution to facilitate compliance with these regulations and programs and provide technical assistance for the user community. EPA selected ERG to provide this support. 

ERG designed, developed, and provides ongoing support for EPA’s Clean Air and Power Division business suite of software tools:

• The Emissions Collection and Monitoring Plan System (ECMPS) is a custom application used to collect, manage, and report emissions and monitoring data. ERG is currently transitioning this distributed desktop client tool to a web application tool hosted in cloud.gov. The ECMPS enables the regulated community to report data to EPA, as required by continuous emission monitoring, reporting, and recordkeeping regulations.
• ERG also manages the Clean Air Markets Program Data (CAMPD) tool, a web-based data publication tool hosted in cloud.gov that allows industry, state, and public stakeholders to access data about facility attributes, reported emissions, allowance trading, and compliance records.
• ERG developed and manages the Clean Air Markets Business System (CBS), a web-based application hosted at EPA’s National Computing Center that enables both authorized accounts and EPA staff to review, submit, and update certain data related to regulatory programs, minimizing the need to submit paper forms.