Using CRANE
Ready to assess the impact of climate technologies?
Follow these 9 steps to create an impact assessment report:
Step 1. Get starteD
Create a free account or log in at app.cranetool.org.
Click “Sign Up Free” to create an account or “Access CRANE” if you already have one. After logging in, click “Impact Assessment” on the menu on the left.
Step 2. Find your technology
Choose from 200+ CRANE technology models.
Search for a technology using keywords, browse our technology list, access your previously saved assessments from “My Solutions” or upload a .json file.
Step 3. Set units
Customize your timeframe, sales units, and incumbent market data.
Select the timeframe for your impact calculation, your sales unit, and the status quo market your solution is displacing. You can also skip directly to our default results at the bottom of this page.
Step 4. Incumbent unit emissions
Control your status quo emissions data.
Review or modify the emissions data per sales unit and incumbent market selected in step 3. Use our default data or edit it if you have your own dataset.
Step 5. Solution unit emissions
Control your solution emissions data.
Review or modify the emissions per sales unit for your solution, based on CRANE’s backend data, Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), or another resource.
Step 6: unit impact
Review your automatically generated unit impact.
The unit impact is the difference in emissions of the incumbent market and your solution per unit sales.
Step 7. Serviceable available market (SAM)
Control your incumbent market data.
Review or modify the SAM, which represents a realistic portion of your incumbent solution’s total addressable market (TAM).
Step 8. Serviceable obtainable market (SOM)
Control your solution’s market data.
Assess planned (company-level) or potential (technology-level) impact. Control your S-curve parameters (e.g., market saturation), and determine your solution’s SOM (or expected market capture of your SAM).
Step 9. Run your report
Vew and save your impact assessment.
Access an overview of your solution’s unit, annual, and cumulative impacts, market data, and references, and export your report in various formats.
Disclaimer: CRANE’s output reports are a helpful starting place for evaluating climate impact as a part of diligence, reporting, or discussion. While CRANE can not predict the future, it provides valuable estimates to guide decisions on climate investments.
See how CRANE can help you assess climate impact