Case Study: Duke Energy achieves unified EHS compliance and record-low incident rates with Sphera Essential Suite

Duke Energy’s e-TRAC System Achieves Strategic EHS Compliance and Safety Incident Management Goals

Duke Energy, a leading U.S. utility, faced fragmented EHS data and processes—more than 60 legacy systems, manual spreadsheets and disparate tools—that hindered compliance, safety and sustainability goals. To create a unified enterprise system (e‑TRAC) the company selected Sphera’s Essential Suite, deploying modules such as Essential Air, Compliance Manager, Task Manager, Incident Management, Chemical Inventory and MSDS Manager to centralize EHS management.

Sphera implemented an integrated platform across Duke Energy’s sites, consolidating 60+ systems, automating chemical inventory and MSDS management, and building interfaces to EAM, PeopleSoft and Maximo. The deployment produced measurable results: 1M+ inventory records, 35,000+ MSDS sheets covering 50,000+ materials, site-specific hazardous chemical lists for 6,700+ locations, 35,000+ tasks processed, 250 hourly compliance checks and streamlined incident/investigation tracking—contributing to major time and IT savings and improved safety performance (lowest Total Incident Case Rate in 2009).

Duke Energy

Giorgina Franklin

EHS Manager