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UK government releases first CRC league table
DatacenterDynamics (Nov 10 2011) Carbon Reduction Commitment
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It may no longer apply to carbon credits but the first UK Government CRC energy Efficiency Scheme league table, released yesterday, still has its critics.
The biggest accusation has been it does not provide a true indication of how a company’s energy efficiency measures – the table only measures actions taken over the last year, and some have said it penalizes data centers that were designed to be efficient built before this period.
In July, DCD blogger Ian Bitterlin, CTO for Ark Continuity, said he thought the league table would fail to drive incentive given there is no longer any monetary value beyond goodwill attached the table (read Bitterlin’s blog post here)
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