ENERGY STAR Launches Low Carbon IT Campaign
A new energy conservation campaign encourages organizations to enable the power management, or sleep mode, on their computers and monitors.
A new energy conservation
campaign encourages organizations to enable the power management, or sleep mode, on their computers and monitors.
Power management has the potential to save up to $50 per computer annually, says ENERGY STAR. According to Lawrence Berkeley National Labs, only five to ten percent of U.S. organizations have deployed these settings.
To date, over 93,000 computers have been pledged to power manage under the campaign. These belong to organizations such as Microsoft, Anheuser-Busch Companies and the City of Portland Public Schools.
To join the Low Carbon IT Campaign, organizations calculate energy and carbon savings using an online pledge form. After submitting the pledge, they receive a certificate with estimated carbon savings.
If all office computers and monitors in the U.S. were set to sleep when not being used, the country could save more than 44 billion kWh or $4 billion worth of electricity and avoid the greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to those of about 5 million cars each year, says ENERGY STAR.
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