Going Green And Saving The Economy
So, today is pre-budget day. For those of you outside the UK… we have a yearly budget in which the government sets things like tax and in recent years there has been the opportunity to make some minor course direction changes in the middle, with the pre-budget. Except, this time, with the global economy such as it is, the changes are more like U-turns. However, there was still a call for the environment with the chancellor saying that the economic recovery must “support our environmental objectives”, with the transition to a “low-carbon world continuing”.
So we still need to save power where we can. In the home this means switching off items which are not being used, and really switching them off, not just leaving them on stand-by, replace lightbulbs with energy saving ones etc. But how about the enterprise? Actually when it comes to IT, switching of desktops and printers at the end of the day can make a huge difference – within Symantec we use one of our own products and have a power policy for desktops which switches them off out of hours (so, if you forget when you go home, it will do it for you)… How much does that one policy change make? Estimated savings are $800,000 per year… and 6 million kilowatts of energy!
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