Green ICT solutions database …. a taster
June 15, 2009 Posted by Bryn in : Bristol, Connecting Bristol, Green ICT , 2 comments
Here at Connecting Bristol, we are involved with the Bristol Green ICT (energy for efficiency) project. As part of the project a Green ICT Solutions Database has been complied and will shortly be published on the Green ICT section of this site. The database contains over 100 green ICT solutions, ranging in difficulty and capital cost.
Before the full database is published, we wanted to give a taster of some of the solutions presented:
- Consider switching to blade servers - Blade servers are entire computers contained on a card that can be inserted into a larger device. This can reduce space requirements by a factor of 20 and consume about 10% less power than rack mounted servers. You can also consolidate server use by repurposing existing servers for other tasks.
- Use Energy star equipment - 20-60% less energy is used by an energy star monitor than a non energy star monitor. For a printer to qualify for an energy star rating it must: use 25% less energy than non-energy star printers, be able to print on both sides, run cooler and last longer.
- Defragment hard discs - Defragmentation of discs reduces the amount of travel required from the hard drives, reducing energy use.
- Set up individual printing accounts - Set up individual printing accounts through ‘Follow Me’ printing. Users can be told how much printing they do in relation to colleagues. Consider publishing a league table of prolific printers.
We will keep you updated when the full database is ready to be downloaded.
ICT for Energy Efficiency
June 1, 2009 Posted by Stephen Hilton in : Bristol, Bristol City Council, Europe, Environment, Green ICT , add a comment
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
Bristol Techno Footprint Green ICT - Workshop & Webinars
February 6, 2009 Posted by Stephen Hilton in : Bristol, Bristol City Council, Innovation, Technology, collaboration, Green ICT, Power of Information , 2 commentsWe are pleased to invite you to help finalise the Techno Footprint project.
What is a Techno Footprint?
In partnership with The Carbon Trust, Connecting Bristol and Bristol City Council Sustainable City Team have been working with ESD Ltd. to develop a way of understanding and visualising how business-use of ICT adds to local carbon emissions. We refer to this as the city’s Techno Footprint.
The Solutions Database
As part of the project, we have also created the Green ICT Solutions Database, an easy to use resource to help inform action planning for Green ICT.
Your Input
We now need your help to refine and check these outputs before we launch them more widely.
Register
We are holding a workshop and two Webinars for Bristol stakeholders. A third Webinar is aimed at DC10plus members and national partners.
Please use the links below to register for either the Bristol Workshop or one of the Webinars
Links
REGISTER for the Bristol Workshop (central location)
4th March 9.30am – 1pm including lunch
*Webinar
REGISTER for the 11th March 2pm
REGISTER -12th March 10am
*Webinar for DC10plus and national partners
REGISTER -18th March 10am
*Each Webinar will last for up to 1 hour. To participate you need a telephone and a computer with Internet access.
Green ICT in Practice
September 3, 2008 Posted by Stephen Hilton in : Bristol, Green ICT , add a commentGary Hird, graduate of the Cranfield IT Leadership Programme and a member of the IT Leadership Forum has just written a book on Green IT in Practice
it is available from Amazon
All author royalties are being donated to charity: 50% to an environmental charity called Global Action Plan, and 50% to the charity Myositis Support Group