Over the past year, we’ve rolled out major enhancements to make your sustainability and financial analyses even more powerful, transparent, and aligned with the latest standards.
🔎 Feature Spotlight: Scenario Analysis
- Test multiple future policy and market pathways in your project analyses.
- Canada: Energy Future 2023 — Global Net-Zero, Canada Net-Zero, Current Measures.
- US: EIA Annual Energy Outlook 2023 — Reference, High/Low Zero-Carbon Tech Costs, Economic Growth.
- Auto-adjusted inputs: Utility rates and emissions factors match the chosen scenario.
☀️ Feature Spotlight: PVWatts Solar Integration
- Direct integration with NREL PVWatts to estimate on-site solar generation.
- Offset targets: Model the % of annual energy use to offset.
- Available area: Calculate output from roof/site size constraints.
- New in 2025: DOE & NRCan cost defaults + monthly yield reporting for clearer financial and carbon savings.
📈 Other Key Updates
- Custom Fuel Settings – Upload project-specific utility rates and emission projections.
- Enhanced Commissioning Logic – Model annual vs. one-time commissioning to capture savings degradation.
- Employee Retention Impacts – Monetize reduced turnover from sustainability strategies.
- Expanded Emissions Transparency – CO₂, CH₄, N₂O broken out by fuel type.
- Updated Discount Rates & Social Cost of Carbon – Recent trusted US/Canada guidance.
- Refreshed Occupant Wage Data – US wages now at regional census levels.
🌎 Coming Soon in Q3/Q4 2025
We’re expanding Autocase coverage to Mexico, enabling your teams to analyze projects seamlessly across North America with consistent methodologies.
👉 Have a project in Mexico—or another geography you’d like to see? Reach out to our team. We’d love to hear from you.
Aviation: Economics Driving Resilient Capital Planning
Our economists are advancing multi-benefit valuation and policy design across sectors—recently supporting Calgary’s stormwater capital planning and Somerville’s fossil-fuel-free programs. In aviation, we bring LCCA/TCO, risk, resilience & sustainability quantification, economic business casing, and economic impact analysis to programs at ATL, LAX, SFO, DFW, BNA, BOS, LGA, SAN, JFK, PDX, SEA, and PHL.
- Why SFO & ATL: Elevated planning standards embed sustainability, resilience, and economic accountability.
- SFO: West Field utilities; concessions requirements; Infrastructure Modernization Plan.
- ATL: Enterprise software license; consulting with Buro Happold & Corgan on the path to net zero.
- Envision: Alignment with ISI Envision verification.
Learn more: Watch our ISI Envision webinar · Read the blog
Tax Incentive Economic Analyses in Texas
Billions of dollars in tax revenues are foregone each year as municipalities, counties, and independent school districts enter into tax incentive agreements with corporations. Autocase’s ongoing evaluation of the fiscal and economic impacts of three major tax incentive programs across Texas uncovered $5.8 billion in forgone school funding and local tax revenues in Calhoun, Harris, Brazoria, Nueces, and San Patricio counties.
This data-driven investigative approach offers a replicable model for uncovering the estimated public cost of foregone revenues from tax incentive programs in Texas, and beyond.
Read the case study or check out the Nueces and San Patricio detailed report, in partnership with the Texas Campaign for the Environment.
