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Updated by Onye Dike on October 20th, 2025
GRITS is a sustainability project-management platform created by the Sustainable Endowments Institute to help institutions plan, finance, and track resource-saving projects. It centralizes energy, water, waste and carbon savings alongside financial metrics, so facilities and sustainability teams can move beyond spreadsheets to consistent, auditable reporting. The software is used by hundreds of organizations, including universities and public institutions, and supports users outside North America. GRITS also reflects its origins in green revolving funds by pairing project performance with funding flows, enabling clearer payback and reinvestment decisions across portfolios.

Available Carbon Accounting Features

Carbon Footprint Calculation
Carbon Pricing
Compliance Reporting
Cost Tracking
Data Import/Export
Emissions Factor Database
Emissions Forecasting
Goal Setting & Tracking
Scenario Analysis for Emissions Reduction
Scope 1 Emissions Tracking
Scope 2 Emissions Tracking
Scope 3 Emissions Tracking
Target Setting & Tracking

Missing Carbon Accounting Features

AI-Powered Insights for Optimization
Audit Support
Benchmarking & Peer Comparison
Carbon Credit Trading
Carbon Offset Tracking
Customizable Dashboards
Customizable Reporting Templates
Integration with IoT Sensors
Lifecycle Assessment
Multi-Site Support
Real-Time Monitoring (non-energy)
Risk Assessment & Scoring
Supply Chain Emissions Hotspot Identification
Tax and Incentive Management

Pricing

Starting Price
USD 150.00 / per month
Options
  • Free Trial
  • Monthly Subscription

Available Since

January 2014

Deployment Options

No data available

Good Option For

  • Medium Business (51-250 people)
  • Large Business (250+ people)

Deep dive


Core Features

GRITS focuses on credible, comparable project data and clear communication of results, covering planning, financing, tracking, and reporting.

  • Goals & scenario planning: Build short- and long-term decarbonization and efficiency plans; model pathways to meet emissions, energy, water, and waste targets.

  • SIMAP sync: Import emissions and energy data from SIMAP to use as baselines in Goals and compare actual campus consumption to projections.

  • Social Cost of Carbon: Add SCC or internal carbon price using federal and state templates or custom frameworks; view “Carbon Reduction Impact” on project pages.

  • Green Revolving Fund support: Track investments and repayments for GRFs in the same system as project savings and paybacks.

  • Sharing & reporting tools: Generate project-level PDFs, portfolio summaries, and action-plan views to communicate impacts to stakeholders.

  • Dashboard & analytics: View aggregate financials, cumulative savings, annual spend, and recently updated projects to monitor portfolio performance.

Closing Insights

A distinctive aspect of GRITS is its purpose-built support for Green Revolving Funds (GRFs). GRITS began as the Green Revolving Investment Tracking System and, uniquely, lets institutions track both project investments and repayments alongside energy, cost, and carbon savings, streamlining GRF accounting and showing how savings finance future work.

In a notable use case, the Facilities and Engineering department at American University uses GRITS via a public GRITS Dashboard to track all campus energy-projects showing how project performance and financial flows are integrated. GRITS is not limited to North America: the project’s support pages note active users in the UK, Australia, and New Zealand, and invite inquiries from other regions. This makes the platform relevant to institutions with international campuses or partnerships that still need consistent project-level governance and reporting.

Whether you’re managing a green revolving fund, planning retrofits, or preparing for building performance standard (BPS) compliance, GRITS offers a unified platform to track project investments, savings, and impact, helping you meet regulatory deadlines and integrate financial and performance metrics.


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