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The Biggest Green Market? Seven Reasons Why It's Green IT
Explore Article Greentech Media (10 hours, 46 min ago)
Over the past few weeks, I've had a number of meetings with engineers, executives and investors and such, and I keep coming away with the same conclusion. The fastest-growing and arguably most attractive segment in alternative energy and energy efficiency lies in hardware, software and networking equipment. Yep, green IT.
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On the GreenBeat: Solar Forecast Sours, 2 Million Smart Meters Installed Nationwide
Explore Article The New York Times (Sep 1 2010)
One hot topic right now is the future of the solar market, which is considered over-saturated. One writer, citing a conversation with a venture capitalist, calls this the “sunset of solar venture capital.” Noting analysts’ bearishness on solar going into 2011, the Motley Fool’s Travis Hoium bets on First Solar, but says Trina Solar and Yingli Solar also have a shot at making inroads into the residential and commercial market where SunPower reigns supreme. Jigar Shah at Cleantech Blog picks at Fool’s metric of cost per watt, saying widening efficiency gaps have rendered those numbers moot. “In any case, solar ...
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Solar Data Center AISO Improves Efficiency
Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Aug 25 2010)
Affordable Internet Services Online (AISO.net), founded in 1997 and located in Romoland, California, is known for its environmentally-friendly web hosting, with clients including The Discovery Channel and Jean-Michel Cousteau’s Ocean Futures Society. AISO.net runs entirely on solar energy from its own on-site solar array. In 2007, AISO hosted the web site for the Live Earth series of global concerts aimed at raising awareness of climate change.
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AT&T expands corporate solar capacity
Explore Article SmartPlanet (Aug 25 2010)
Telecommunications carrier AT&T is working with utility company SunEdison to activate up to 2 megawatts of solar capacity in California by the end of the second quarter of 2011. The deal is part of AT&T’s program to aggressively step up its solar investments moving forward. The first site under the deal with SunEdison is being activated on a rooftop in San Diego. The other sites will be located in Dunnigan, Commerce, Mojave, Santa Ana and West Sacramento.
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Inside an Energy Efficient Data Center
Explore Article baselinemag.com (Aug 13 2010)
IEmerson Electric, a $20.9 billion technology manufacturer, offers a glimpse of the future of green IT. The firm’s 35,000-square-foot global data center, located at its St. Louis headquarters, is 31 percent more energy efficient than traditional data centers, and it is home to Missouri’s largest solar array—a 7,800-square-foot rooftop array with more than 550 solar panels. The $50 million state-of-the-art facility has already earned two high-profile industry awards for environmental responsibility: LEED Gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council and a 2009 Beyond Green High-Performance Building Award from the Sustainable Buildings Industry Council. More importantly, it’s trimming energy costs ...
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China Solar Projects Draw Interest From 50 Companies
Explore Article BusinessWeek (Aug 12 2010)
China’s effort to double its capacity to produce solar power has attracted project bids by 50 companies, ranging from nuclear plant operators to circuit-breaker makers, one of the participants said. The tender process has generated 135 offers to build and run solar plants in six provinces, including from China Guangdong Nuclear Power Group Co., the nation’s second-biggest atomic plant builder, according to Qiu Zhanwei, vice-director of Beijing-based solar-module maker Astronergy, which also has bid. “A lot of companies are interested in getting involved in these projects as the government is keen to develop this sector and they want to get ...
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Europe investing in solar and carbon capture
Explore Article examiner.com (Aug 9 2010)
The European Union (EU) is investing in solar and carbon capture. The European Union (EU) plans to aggressively cut Greenhouse Gases with new technology. The EU is investing $50 billion Euros into research and development of solar and carbon capture at coal plants. The EU is comprised of 27 members. It already has a carbon limiting cap and trade program but it is viewed as too expensive by business. Some EU countries have a carbon tax also. Solar power is getting $23 billion Euros over the next decade in investment. Carbon capture is receiving $13 billion Euros over the same ...
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Green Data Center Renewable Network in Canada
Explore Article greenm3.com (Aug 4 2010)
The quest for the ever-greener data center has long focused on more energy-efficient hardware and software platforms, both to lower consumption for actual data processing and lessen the resulting heat load. Most of the these initiatives have one thing in common: They target energy use at individual facilities. This has been a problem for supporters of renewable energy in particular, who have faced resistance from those who say such sources are unreliable.
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A Vision for the Modular Enterprise
Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Aug 2 2010)
i/o Data Centers, believes the company's new modular data center design is at the forefront of a fundamental shift in the way enterprise companies will buy and deploy data centers. Data Center Knowledge got an early look at i/o Anywhere.
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Ten Unique Data Center Designs
Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Jul 29 2010)
Across the globe, many data center designs use an amazing amount of creativity in locating and deploying unique data centers. These are not your run-of-the-mill server rooms, but truly one-of-a-kind facilities that have a personality all their own. There is more to data center design than the straightforward mechanical approach, according to Rob Snevely, author of Enterprise Data Center Design and Methodology. “The detailed process of data center design appears on the outset to be a purely mechanical process involving the layout of the area, computations to determine equipment capacities, and innumerable other engineering details,” Snevely writes. “They are, of ...
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Rutgers’ Chinese Solar Panels Show Clean-Energy Shift
Explore Article BusinessWeek (Jul 23 2010)
At Rutgers University in New Jersey, 7,600 panels convert sunlight into electricity, saving some $200,000 in energy costs this year in the biggest solar-power experiment at a U.S. college. Yingli Green Energy Holding Co., China’s second-largest solar-panel maker, supplied the $10 million project. Yingli is one of several Chinese manufacturers that have slashed costs to reduce global prices for solar modules by about 50 percent in two years. The drive made them more affordable for buyers from Rutgers to Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the biggest U.S. retailer.
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Green IT and Data Center Management News
Explore Article ServerWatch (Jul 13 2010)
"Renewable energy from solar panels and wind turbines offer a viable alternative to diesel generators in remote off-grid mobile station sites, and a new report from Pike Research forecasts that renewable energy will power 4.5% of the world's mobile base stations by 2014, up from just 0.11% in 2010. "Cisco and Living PlanIT have signed a letter of intent to build a sustainable community in the northern Portuguese municipality of Paredes to serve as an example of a smart connected community that enables economic development, better city management and an improved quality of live for its 200,000 citizens.
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62% of EU's 2009 new energy capacity installed is renewable
Explore Article greenm3.com (Jul 6 2010)
The European Commission has published a report showing wind energy contributed the largest share of new electricity generation capacity in the EU in 2009 Renewable energy sources accounted for 62% of new electricity generation capacity installed in the EU27 in 2009, a 5% rise on 2008 levels, according to a report published by the European Commission. The findings, compiled by the Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) and published yesterday (July 5), also show that for the second year running, wind energy contributed the largest share of the new capacity.
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Congressmen and governor state positions on climate change
Explore Article www2.timesdispatch.com (Jul 4 2010)
Virginia's congressional delegation and Gov. Bob McDonnell respond to a Times-Dispatch survey on climate change. Rep. Robert J. Wittman (R-1st): As a scientist myself, I recognize that the earth’s climate is changing. We must recognize that these climactic cycles of heating and cooling have been going on well before man appeared on earth. Humans across the globe contribute greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. The questions then become, how much does man affect carbon levels in the atmosphere and to what extent does this affect climate change. We need to examine and take into account all factors, both those induced by ...
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How to Put Green IT to Work - It Management
Explore Article baselinemag.com (Jul 1 2010)
As energy prices remain high and threaten to spike on future demand, a recession lingers and corporate sustainability is pushed into the strategic mainstream. Organizations are increasingly cognizant that green IT is no longer a marketing strategy pitched at the granola crowd, or a luxury for executives with a conscience. Here’s what it takes to make energy efficient IT pay off:
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