We have created some new web pages to start to share our work on Green ICT here
On March 12, 2009, the European Commission adopted a Communication on mobilising Information and Communication Technologies to facilitate the transition to an energy-efficient, low-carbon economy.
Over the last year, we have been developing and piloting a methodology for measuring the impact of business-use of ICT on the city’s carbon emissions and seeking to increase awareness and use of “Green-ICT solutions”.
We now know that Bristol’s Business-use of ICT
- Uses 125million KWH of electricity to run
- Costs the city approx £11 million per year in energy costs
- Produces 67,258 tonnes of CO2, which works out as 3% of citywide emissions or 7% of industrial and commercial emissions
- This is equivalent to almost 19 million car journeys from Bristol to Bath
- And is enough C02 to fill 37,336 hot air balloons
The full outputs of this work will be published shortly. For now, there is some information in this presentation, which we delivered at the Commission’s ICT for Energy Efficiency event in March.
The deadline for the Commission’s Consultation on ICT and Energy efficiency is 14 June 2009 at 24:00, Brussels time. The Commission promises that all contributions will be carefully analysed and a summary of the outcome of the consultation will be published on DG INFSO’s website
