Introducing Data Requests: Seamlessly collect data from project partners

At Mangrove Systems, we continuously strive to empower carbon project developers with the tools they need to achieve excellence in measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV). Today, we are thrilled to announce a new feature: Data Requests.

The challenges of collecting data today

Carbon projects need to collect a wide range of data and backing evidence in order to report MRV data - to verifiers, registries, state and federal government agencies, and buyers. The process of collecting data is a messy one: data comes in multiple file formats (flat files, PDFs, photo evidence), from different sources, across every stage of the project boundary and at different frequencies. As the project grows, the overhead for aggregating and managing that data only grows. It becomes untenable to manage data across email threads, shared drives, internal systems, and constantly creating new tabs on a spreadsheet.

Projects also want to issue credits more regularly to accelerate the cash conversion cycle. The ability to report smaller batches of production on an ongoing basis and continuously issue environmental attributes from these reports necessitates more detailed carbon accounting at every step of the way, and more detailed evidence gathering.

Collect ongoing documentation from partners using Data Requests

Data Requests is designed to simplify and streamline the process of gathering essential inputs and documents from your partners across the project boundary, ensuring that your MRV reporting to independent verifiers and issuing registries is thorough, accurate, and hassle-free.

Feature highlights:

• Seamless Partner Engagement: Partners receive email requests directly from your project within Mangrove Nexus. This ensures timely and targeted data collection without the need for constant follow-up.
• Streamlined Data Submission: Partners can easily submit the required data and documents for each requested input. Data is collected and transformed automatically into standard data events. This reduces the need to sift through documents and categorize them by data types, making the process smoother and more efficient.
• Automated Request Schedules: Set up recurring requests on a predefined schedule, allowing for regular collection from partners. Reduce manual effort and streamlines your data collection workflow, keeping your project data up-to-date with minimal intervention.
• Real-Time Tracking and Workflow Management: Project developers can monitor the status of each request in real-time, ensuring nothing falls through the cracks. The integrated reviewal workflows allow for thorough checking and verification, ensuring that all data is complete and accurate before submission.

How does this work in practice? Project developers across methodologies and technologies can apply this feature to workflows where they need evidence documentation from external partners as inputs into carbon accounting and reporting. For example:

• Biochar projects can collect evidence on sustainable sourcing and processing of biomass from biomass suppliers on a regular basis.
• Enhanced weathering projects can collect data on the carbon intensity of amendment from feedstock suppliers, and transportation records from transportation companies for calculating transport emissions.
• DAC projects can collect sequestration monitoring data from subsurface partners at regular, predefined schedules.
• CCS operators can collect CO2 capture records, electricity and fuel usage records from capture entities transferring CO2 into their network.

Operationalize your MRV today

Data Requests is a game-changer for carbon project developers looking to build efficiency, scalability, and automation into their processes. By ensuring data completeness and accuracy, this new tool helps you meet the growing demands of MRV reporting with confidence.

Requesting data is just one of many powerful tools available for ingesting data into Mangrove Nexus. Our platform provides flexibility for project developers to collect data from various sources, ensuring that every piece of the puzzle fits seamlessly into the larger picture of MRV reporting and production accounting. Project developers can also bulk import flat files and large datasets from other systems, and integrate with Mangrove Nexus to seamlessly push and pull data from various systems in your operational environment. Once ingested, data from the project is normalized into an ongoing feed of required parameters for production accounting.

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For more information or to see Data Requests in action, contact our team at Mangrove Systems or explore the feature within your Mangrove Nexus account.