Decarbonisation stack · Pharma · 00/14
Pharma / power · heat · proof

Green power.
Green heat.
One stack.

For pharma and API plants.

One provider for green power, green heat and the data that proves both — from reactor jackets to cleanroom HVAC to the cold chain.

POWERGREEN SUPPLYHEATHEAT PUMPSDATAergOSESGesgOS
4layers · power, heat, data, ESG
120 °Cheat pump range · hot water and steam
15-minmetered heartbeat on ergOS
1accountable provider
joulewise.comFor discussion purposes only
01 / Executive summaryFor leadership
Executive summary / Pharma

Heating and cooling
at the same time.

The situation

A pharma site runs round the clock: cleanroom HVAC, chilled water for reactors, purified-water loops and steam for jackets, dryers and sanitisation. Much of that heat comes from boilers for loads well below 120 °C, while chillers next door reject heat to cooling towers. Global customers increasingly ask API and formulation suppliers for renewable share, Scope 1 and 2 data and reduction targets.

The gap

Power, heat and ESG reporting are bought from different vendors on different clocks. Solar is sized without the heat load; boilers are replaced without a plan for cheaper power; ESG data is typed in once a year. Each fix leaves money and carbon on the table.

What we do

jouleWise runs the whole decarbonisation stack: green power — intrastate and ISTS solar and wind, rooftop solar, BESS and green-market purchase, each source orchestrated to fulfil industrial demand at least cost; ABT metering and data loggers on every source and load; green heat from industrial heat pumps up to 120 °C; ergOS to meter and orchestrate both every 15 minutes; esgOS to turn the same data into audit-ready disclosure.

Why it compounds

Cheaper green power lowers the cost of every unit of heat a heat pump makes. Thermal storage lets that heat be made in the cheapest solar blocks. ergOS proves it; esgOS reports it. Savings from one layer fund the next.

The value

Up to 25% lower power cost on DISCOM tariff and up to 65% renewable share (reported, year 1 of ergOS). Heat pumps on the chilled-water return then deliver heating and cooling from the same kWh — displacing boiler fuel on jacket loops, HVAC reheat and water systems.

How to engage

Four models, mix and match: Advisory, SaaS (ergOS + esgOS), Heat Advisory, and Heat as a Service, where you pay per unit of heat and invest nothing upfront.

First step

A four-week decarbonisation baseline on one site: power bills, load survey, fuel and steam records, and portable heat metering on jacket loops, HVAC reheat and water systems — ending in one business case for power, heat and ESG.

up to 25%cost savings on DISCOM tariff
up to 65%renewable share achieved

Reported client impact, year 1 of ergOS; C&I client outcomes. Results vary with state, tariff structure and load profile. Pharma-specific value is quantified in the baseline.

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02 / Why nowPressures on the plant
Why now / Pharma

Your buyers are
auditing your utilities.

For an API, formulation or CDMO site, the carbon in the product is now part of the commercial conversation. Six pressures point at the same metered data.

Global customer programmes

Multinational pharma buyers run supplier sustainability programmes that ask API and CDMO partners for renewable power, Scope 1 and 2 data and targets.

Regulated export markets

Health systems in Europe increasingly weigh supplier carbon in procurement — NHS England, for example, asks suppliers for carbon reduction plans.

Utility cost

Round-the-clock HVAC, chilled water, purified water and steam make utilities one of the largest controllable costs on a GMP site.

Steam for low-temperature work

Coal, briquette, FO or PNG boilers often serve loads below 120 °C. That Scope 1 can be removed through change control on the utility, not the validated process.

Disclosure

BRSR Core-format reporting and value-chain disclosure put your energy and emissions in your customers' reports as well as your own.

Carbon markets

India's Carbon Credit Trading Scheme sets emission-intensity targets sector by sector. Sites that measure now are ready when their sector or supply chain is covered.

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03 / The stackPower → heat → data → ESG
The ecosystem / first of its kind

One stack.
Every layer feeds the next.

Most plants buy decarbonisation in pieces. We built it as a loop: low-cost green power feeds heat pumps, storage moves heat into the cheapest blocks, ergOS runs it, esgOS proves it.

GREEN POWERopen access · rooftop · BESSHEAT PUMPShot water · LP steamTHERMAL STOREheat made in cheap blocksergOSmeters · forecasts · tradesesgOSScope 1·2·3 · BRSRONEPROVIDERSAVINGS FUND THE NEXT STEP
01

Green power

Intrastate and ISTS solar and wind, rooftop solar, BESS and green-market purchase — each source orchestrated to fulfil industrial demand at least cost.

02

Heat pumps

Every kWh in becomes three to four kWh of useful heat. The boiler stops burning fuel for loads up to 120 °C.

03

Thermal storage

Heat is made when power is cheapest and greenest, and used when the process needs it.

04

ergOS

Meters power, steam, fuel and water every 15 minutes; forecasts, schedules and trades; runs heat pumps against price.

05

esgOS

Converts the same metered data to Scope 1, 2 and 3, BRSR Core-format, CBAM, CDP and customer disclosures.

Why the order matters. A heat pump on grid power cuts fuel cost but, at today's grid emission factor, barely cuts carbon against gas. Put the same heat pump on green power and its heat is close to zero-carbon. Power first, then heat — from one provider.
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04 / Supply chainIntervention map
KSM to cold chain / where we intervene

Every utility
has a lever.

Starting materials arrive, reactors run, dryers and cleanrooms hold spec, water loops stay hot, packs leave in the cold chain. jouleWise acts at ten points — in the power supply and the utility block, never inside the validated process.

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PowerHeatData · ergOSESG · esgOS
01

Green sourcing

Intrastate and ISTS solar and wind contracted through open access for a flat, round-the-clock load.

Power
02

Connectivity and metering

Open access approvals, connection agreement and ABT metering at the site incomer.

Power
03

Rooftop solar

Warehouse and admin roofs carry behind-the-meter solar, sized from measured load.

Power
04

Battery storage

LFP storage for peak shaving and ride-through on critical HVAC and water systems.

Power
05

Heat pumps on jacket and water loops

Hot water for reactor jackets and utility loops made by heat pumps instead of boiler steam.

Heat
06

Cleanroom HVAC reheat

AHU reheat and dehumidification coils fed from the heat pump hot-water circuit.

Heat
07

Hot-water store and PW loop

Thermal store charged in solar blocks; purified-water loop held at sanitisation temperature.

Heat
08

Chiller heat recovery

Heat that cooling towers throw away becomes the heat pump source — cooling and heating from one kWh.

Heat
09

ergOS control

15-minute metering of power, heat, chilled water, fuel and water; forecasting, trading and heat dispatch.

Data · ergOS
10

Suppliers and customers

Starting-material and solvent data for Scope 3; customer questionnaires and per-batch carbon from esgOS.

ESG · esgOS
Tap a number on the plant to hold its detail

Illustrative plant. Actual intervention map built site by site in the baseline.

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05 / PowerPlan · implement · meter · orchestrate
Layer 01 / power

Low-cost
green power.

Cleanroom HVAC, chillers and water systems run 24×7, so the load is high and flat. That suits round-the-clock wind and storage — and heat pump load can still be concentrated into solar hours with a hot-water store.

Every source, one dispatch. Intrastate and ISTS solar and wind, rooftop solar, BESS and green-market purchase — each source orchestrated to fulfil industrial demand at least cost.
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Wind · ISTSSolarBESSGreen marketHeat pump load
01

Plan

Meter-data due diligence: bills, load survey, rooftop and captive parameters. Solar, wind, hybrid, BESS and exchange power optimised together, capex or opex, with each state's ToD, banking and open access charges in the landed-cost model.

RE-100 roadmap · size, location, savings, NPV
02

Implement

RfP over a 25-year horizon, developer evaluation, reverse auction, PPA and shareholder agreements (26% SPV equity for captive status), open access approvals and connection agreement.

Green power contracted · ~3 months once planning closes
03

Meter and log

ABT meters at injection and drawal points — main and check meters on CTs and PTs of the required accuracy class — plus data loggers on every incomer, heat pump, steam, fuel and water line. Installed, tested, sealed and linked to the SLDC and to ergOS.

Every source and load visible in 15-minute blocks
04

Orchestrate

ergOS forecasts 96 blocks, schedules with the SLDC, trades DAM, GDAM, RTM and GTAM, manages banking and battery health — and now dispatches heat pumps and thermal storage against price.

For the life of the assets
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06 / Heat pump 101What is a heat pump
Heat pump 101 / the question clients ask most

What is a
heat pump?

A heat pump is a refrigerator run the other way round. It does not make heat by burning anything — it moves heat that already exists, from a cooler place to a hotter one, and uses electricity only to do the lifting.

ELECTRICITY · 1 kWhFREE HEAT2.5 kWhair · waste heatchiller return20–40 °CUSEFUL HEAT3.5 kWhhot waterlow-pressure steamup to 120 °C01 EVAPORATErefrigerant boils,soaking up low heat02 COMPRESSelectricity squeezes thegas — it gets hot03 CONDENSEhot gas gives its heatto process water04 EXPANDpressure drops, it goescold — and repeatsREFRIGERANT CIRCUIT · CLOSED LOOP · ILLUSTRATIVE COP 3.5
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What goes in, what comes out

Fuel boiler
in · 1 kWh fuel
out · 0.85 kWh heat
Heat pump
in · 1 kWh power + 2.5 free
out · 3.5 kWh heat

COP (coefficient of performance) = useful heat ÷ electricity. A boiler can never exceed 1; a heat pump typically delivers 2 to 5.

Temperature lift sets the COP · indicative

~5COP at 30 K lift
~3.5COP at 50 K lift
~2.5COP at 70 K lift
~2COP at 90 K lift

Lift = delivery temperature minus source temperature. Recovering warm waste heat first and delivering no hotter than the process needs keeps the COP high.

Does it replace my boiler?

For loads up to 120 °C, yes — as the primary heat source. The boiler usually stays on standby and for any loads above that range.

What if power is expensive?

Each kWh of power returns three to four kWh of heat, so heat costs roughly a third of the power price. On green open access, the carbon falls close to zero as well.

What does the site need?

Spare electrical capacity, space near the heat users and a steady heat demand. A hot-water store smooths peaks and lets the unit run in the cheapest blocks.

Is it proven?

It is the same refrigeration cycle as the chillers already on your site, run for heat. Industrial units are in service worldwide in food, chemicals, pharma and textiles.

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07 / HeatIndustrial heat pumps
Layer 02 / heat

The boiler,
reinvented.

Much pharma heat is warm, not hot: jacket loops, dryer air, HVAC reheat, washing and purified-water sanitisation sit below 120 °C. Heat pumps serve those loads on electricity — and the chilled-water plant next door becomes their heat source.

Reactor jacket heatinghot-water loop
Solvent distillation and recoverymost common solvents
Fluid-bed and tray dryersprocess air heating
Cleanroom HVAC reheatdehumidify, then reheat
Purified-water sanitisationhot storage and loop
CIP and washingvessels, bins, garments
Autoclaves and clean steamremain on existing steam
WFI multi-effect distillationremains on existing steam
0 °C50100120150200 °C
Heat pump rangeStays on existing burners or electrode heat120 °C ceiling

Heat sources we reuse

Chiller condensers and cooling-tower return, HVAC exhaust air, solvent-recovery condensers and warm effluent — heat the site already rejects.

Heating and cooling at once

Pharma sites cool and heat at once: chilled water for reactors and cleanrooms, reheat and hot loops alongside. A heat pump on the chilled-water return serves both from the same kWh.

Sized from metered heat

Portable heat meters log flow and temperature on candidate processes for two to four weeks before anything is sized.

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08 / EconomicsCost and carbon per unit of heat
The loop in numbers / illustrative

Cheaper power
makes cheaper heat.

What one kWh of useful process heat costs, and what it emits, depending on where the heat comes from. The heat pump cuts cost on any power; green power is what cuts the carbon.

Source of heat
₹ per kWh of useful heat
₹/kWh-th
PNG-fired boiler₹55/SCM · 85% efficiency
6.22
Diesel (HSD) boiler₹90/L · 85% efficiency
10.59
Heat pump on DISCOM power₹8.5/kWh · COP 3.2
2.66
Heat pump on green open access₹5.5/kWh landed · COP 3.2
1.72
Heat pump in solar blocks + store₹4.0/kWh · COP 3.2
1.25
Source of heat
kg CO₂ per kWh of useful heat
kg/kWh-th
PNG-fired boiler
0.22
Diesel (HSD) boiler
0.32
Heat pump on DISCOM power
0.22
Heat pump on green open access
≈ 0
Heat pump in solar blocks + store
≈ 0

Illustrative only, not an offer. Assumptions: PNG 10.4 kWh/SCM, 1.95 kg CO₂/SCM; HSD 10.0 kWh/L, 2.68 kg CO₂/L; grid 0.716 kg CO₂/kWh (CEA baseline order of magnitude); green power treated as zero-emission on a market basis with green attributes retired. Heat pump COP 3.2 reflects hot water near 80 °C for jacket and water loops, drawn from the chilled-water return (heating side only; the cooling delivered is extra); COP falls as delivery temperature rises. Tariffs, fuel prices and COP vary by site and are replaced with metered values in the baseline.

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09 / ergOSOrchestration
Layer 03 / data · ergOS

One screen.
Power and heat.

ergOS is the operating layer. It sits on every meter, every source and every heat pump — watching prices, weather, storage and the production plan, and acting every 15 minutes.

ergOS · Site 1 · utilities + HVAC● Live
RE share MTD61%▲ open access
Landed power₹5.6/kWh▼ vs DISCOM
HP COP heat + cool5.8HP-1 on CHW return
Hot-water loop82 °CPW loop · in spec
Steam avoided MTD310 t▲ vs baseline
CO₂ avoided MTD118 tScope 1 + 2
✓Day-ahead schedule sent to SLDC at 09:58
●HP-1 recovering chilled-water heat for AHU reheat — block B
●Hot-water store charging in solar blocks until 15:30
!AHU-4 reheat energy +9% vs 30-day average — valve check raised
Illustrative screen · values indicative

Forecast and trade

96-block day-ahead load, SLDC scheduling, DAM, GDAM, RTM and GTAM bids, deviation settled block by block.

Dispatch heat

Heat pumps and thermal stores charged in the cheapest, greenest blocks, within process temperature limits.

Bill and bank

Banked-energy ledger, audit-ready billing and state-wise compliance tracked continuously.

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10 / esgOSDisclosure
Layer 04 / ESG · esgOS

ESG, operated.
Not reported.

The same data that runs the plant produces the disclosure. Metered where possible, integrated where the data already lives, audited where it does not.

First choice

Meter

Electricity, steam, thermal energy, fuel flow and water — every 15 minutes.

Second

Integrate

ERP, HRMS, EHS tools and portals — no retyping.

Last resort

Audit

Refrigerant, waste, safety and supplier data — photo-evidenced and signed off.

What esgOS produces for pharma

Deterministic by design. Regulations and methodologies are stored as versioned, machine-readable rules and run by a rule engine. AI extracts, explains and drafts — it never produces a reported number.
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11 / ModelsAdvisory · SaaS · Heat
Working models / how to engage

Four ways in.
One provider.

Start where the value is largest for your plant. Models combine — most clients begin with Advisory and SaaS on power, then add heat.

Model 01

Advisory

Power strategy and delivery, from RE-100 roadmap to live open access.

Scope
RE-100 roadmap, RfP and reverse auction, PPA, approvals, ABT metering, regulatory filings
You pay
Fixed fee, with a success-fee option
Assets
Owned by you or your developer
Best for
Plants ready to contract green power
Model 02

SaaS

ergOS and esgOS as a subscription — the operating and disclosure layers.

Scope
15-minute metering, forecasting, trading support, heat dispatch, ESG pipeline and reports
You pay
Per plant, per year
Assets
Meters per BOQ; platform hosted
Best for
Multi-plant groups that want one source of truth
Model 03

Heat Advisory

Engineering-grade route from boiler to heat pump, with you owning the asset.

Scope
Heat audit and metering, pinch and waste-heat study, heat pump sizing, vendor selection, EPC oversight, commissioning
You pay
Fixed fee per study and per project stage
Assets
Owned by you (capex)
Best for
Plants with capex budget and a fuel-cost target
Model 04

Heat as a Service

You buy heat, not equipment. Hot water and low-pressure steam delivered to your header.

Scope
Design, install, own, operate and maintain heat pumps and storage; powered by jouleWise green power; run on ergOS
You pay
Per unit of heat delivered, priced against your current fuel cost
Assets
Owned on the jouleWise side — zero upfront capex
Best for
Plants that want green steam now, off balance sheet

Commercial terms indicative and finalised per engagement.

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12 / RoadmapFrom baseline to proof
The roadmap / indicative

Baseline.
Power. Heat.
Proof.

01

Baseline Weeks 1–4

Bills, load survey, fuel and steam records, portable heat metering on candidate processes, ESG data map.

Signed-off energy, heat and carbon baseline
02

Roadmap Weeks 4–8

RE-100 power plan, heat pump shortlist for jacket loops, HVAC reheat and water systems, and the ESG data map — in one business case.

One business case — power, heat, ESG
03

Meter and log Weeks 6–12

ABT metering at the incomer and data loggers on power, heat, fuel and water lines — the measured base every later step is sized, settled and reported on.

ergOS live on metered data
04

Power live ~3 months after roadmap

Open access contracted and approved; rooftop solar and BESS where they fit; every source orchestrated against demand on ergOS.

Green power flowing
05

Heat live Pilot, then scale

One heat pump on the chilled-water return serving HVAC reheat and a hot-water loop, under change control; then jacket loops and dryers.

Fuel displaced, measured on ergOS
06

Operate and disclose Every block · every year

ergOS runs power and heat; esgOS publishes BRSR Core-format, CBAM, CDP and customer disclosures with an audit trail.

Assurance-ready numbers

Timelines indicative; confirmed after the baseline and dependent on state approvals and equipment lead times.

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13 / Track recordClients
Track record / RE-100 assignments

~1 GW of
RE-100 study scope.

RE-100 assignments across eight industrial groups, cement to FMCG. Deep Indian power-sector regulatory work, with team experience on lender's-engineer mandates.

ClientIndustryRE study scope
Dalmia CementCement~300 MW
Chettinad CementCement~200 MW
SAELSolar cells~160 MW
Wonder CementCement~140 MW
Haldiram'sSnacks & beverages~35 MW
BikajiSnacks~25 MW
Bharatiyam (Campa)Beverages~19 MW
1 GW+RE project work by our team
15+state regulatory jurisdictions
8industries served
20+years of leadership in energy

Industries: food & beverages, FMCG, cement, chemicals, textiles, metals, automotive ancillary, solar manufacturing, real estate. ISO 9001:2015 · ISO 27001.

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14 / ContactLet's talk
Let's talk / start with one plant

Tell us the plant.
We'll map the stack.

Send one year of electricity bills and fuel records. We return the baseline, the power-and-heat roadmap and the business case.

Electricity

Praveen Sharma
praveen.sharma@joulewise.com · +91 92143 37500

jouleWise

joulewise.com
jouleWise Advisory Services Pvt Ltd · Noida, India · Spain · ISO 9001:2015 · ISO 27001

Disclaimer

This presentation is issued for discussion purposes only. Prices, durations, heat pump performance and outcomes shown are indicative, depend on site, state, load profile, process temperatures, contracted terms, exchange prices and the regulatory orders in force, and do not constitute an offer, warranty or commitment by jouleWise. Screens and plant illustrations are illustrative. Client names are cited from jouleWise assignments. Any engagement is governed solely by definitive agreements between the parties.

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