Telehouse London Totally Switches To Green Power

Explore da.feedsportal.com (Dec 1 2011) Carbon Footprint , Emissions

...n sources. Ongoing sustainability commitment Tokuji Mitsui, managing director of Telehouse and KDDI Europe, said the move to renewable energy was the natural next step on the company’s green agenda. This ag......business strategy with our green ethics wherever possible. Last February, Telehouse was awarded the Carbon Trust Standard (CTS) which is based on a stringent independent assessment. The CTS award certifies that a... (Read Full Article)

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The taxing issues in London today

Explore DatacenterDynamics (Nov 16 2011) Emissions

...fore the final CRC ‘tax’ was announced. “A lot of people put in energy metering, companies went for Carbon Trust certification — they basically put a lot of cost into efficiency,” Bowman says. “In one way this is......ding our core locations,” Oosthoek says. “We are expanding our Telecity Harbour Exchange (in one of Europe’s most sought after data center locations, The Docklands, an extension of the financial trading dis... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Europe   Carbon Reduction Commitment   Carbon Trust

UK government releases first CRC league table

Explore DatacenterDynamics (Nov 10 2011) Carbon Reduction Commitment

...ings, and for this first year dynamic supply. The League table also takes into account entry to the Carbon Trust Standard or a similar body and looks at emissions per company turnover or revenue expenditure, with......s of CO2 Digital Realty Trust UK at 782 with a weighting of 1276.5 and 22,017 tonnes of CO2 Verizon Europe at 1109 and a weighting of 990.5 and 43, 681 ... (Read Full Article)

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40% of Firms Failing to Tackle Energy Efficiency, UK Says

Explore environmentalleader.com (Nov 9 2011) Cap and Trade , Emissions

...gy Efficiency Energy Management Environmental Compliance Environmental Data Environmental Reporting Europe Large Sustainable Strategy & Leadership CA Technologies - Click Here! Jobs for Environmental Leader......smart meter readings, and the other half is based on the proportion of emissions certified by the Carbon Trust or equivalent body. But businesses are castigating the U.K. government for the rankings, saying the... (Read Full Article)

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Datacenter Discussions: Savvis and Sungard

Explore DatacenterDynamics (Apr 13 2011) Carbon Footprint , Solar , Cloud Computing

...ought together Neil Cresswell, EMEA MD, Savvis and Keith Tilley, MD UK and Executive Vice President Europe for SunGard Availability Services. Keith Tilley Neil Cresswell DCDFOCUS started off the discussion ......nt that must be maintained. Less equipment equals higher efficiencies. We were recently awarded the Carbon Trust Standard Certification for our data center in Winnersh, Berkshire, in recognition of our commitment... (Read Full Article)

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GreenWise poll: will 2011 be significant for green business?

Explore Green Wise (Jan 12 2011) Construction , Cap and Trade , Carbon Tax , Emissions , Fossil Fuel , Wind

... the low carbon economy can mean new jobs and sustainable growth. Tom Delay, chief executive of the Carbon Trust: 2011 could be a pivotal year for green growth in the UK. We are at a turning point where business ......le energy sources become more commercially viable and attractive but a number of governments across Europe, notably Spain and Germany, are removing Feed-in Tariff provisions as they have become 'over-subscr... (Read Full Article)

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Sentilla Expands Services in European Energy Efficiency Market With New Office, Fresh Talent

Explore businesswire.com (Nov 30 2010) Emissions

...eading provider of energy management solutions for data centers, today announced its expansion into Europe with the opening of a new London location and the hiring of a new sales team, including Vice Presid......ntilla establish a beachhead in London. Think London introduced Sentilla to industry bodies such as Carbon Trust and the London Climate Change Agency and also connected it with business leaders like Telecity, B... (Read Full Article)

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TelecityGroup Achieves Carbon Trust Standard

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jul 29 2010) Monitoring , Carbon Footprint , Emissions , Fossil Fuel

...f TelecityGroup. “To achieve ISO 14001 accreditation across our entire portfolio of data centers in Europe, and be the first specialist data center services company to be awarded the Carbon Trust Standard across our UK operations, shows both our continued environmental leadership and the combin... (Read Full Article)

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Data Centre Launches ‘Eco-friendly’ Facility

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Jul 1 2010) Cloud Computing , Servers

...The centre’s green credentials, and resulting claim to be one of the most efficient data centres in Europe, were made possible with an interest-free loan from the Carbon Trust under its ‘Big Business Refit Campaign’. Reducing electricity use by 60 percent Blue Chip has inves... (Read Full Article)

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Companies Rush For Automatic Metering Before CRC

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Mar 9 2010) Monitoring , Carbon Reduction Commitment

... year’s reporting on 31 March 2011. Bobby Collinson, Power Efficiency managing director, told eWEEK Europe that the voluntary installation of AMR on fiscal meters accounts for 50 percent of the league table......ess than six months. “Organisations are being drawn to AMR because of the complexity of meeting the Carbon Trust scheme requirement to show long-term commitment to carbon reduction, which will make up the other 5... (Read Full Article)

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Is clean tech China's moon shot?

Explore Technology News (Jan 28 2010) Construction , Carbon Footprint , Emissions , Fossil Fuel , Solar , Wind

...een Chinese-style capitalism and the more market-oriented approach fancied by the United States and Europe. The question comes down to this: will China's highly capitalized command-and-control economy tr......ink it will happen," said Benjamin Sykes, head of renewables technology at the UK government-funded Carbon Trust, which advises British companies on how to reduce their carbon footprint. "It's do-able." Others a... (Read Full Article)

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Green Grid and BCS Warn About "Risky" UK Carbon Rules

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Nov 11 2009) Cap and Trade , Emissions

...nough companies are preparing for it, according to the Green Grid and the BCS. Speaking to eWeek Europe UK this week as part of a wider partnership between the two groups, John Tuccillo - chairman of the......luding the development of a data centre simulator tool originally developed by the BCS and the UK's Carbon Trust and a private company Romonet - set up by Limbuwala and Liam Newcombe. The core ... (Read Full Article)

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HM Treasury Signs With Fujitsu For Green IT

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Sep 28 2009) Carbon Footprint , Emissions

... enough carbon dioxide to fill almost 2,500 Olympic-sized swimming pools. Fujitsu's Laboratories of Europe also recently announced details what it calls its Total CO2 and Value Analysis system. The system a......sourced data centre simulator it developed in conjunction with the British Computer Society and the Carbon Trust. Fujitsu Services in the UK was once the leading UK computer manufacturer, ICL, formed by Labour Te... (Read Full Article)

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Fujitsu Advances Green Data Centre Strategy with Total CO2 and Value Analysis Solution

Explore FUJITSU (Sep 17 2009) Carbon Footprint , Emissions

London, 16th Sep 2009 — Fujitsu Laboratories of Europe Limited announced today the launch of its latest Green Data Centre development at the European Tech......alue Analysis solution is the result of extensive research and development, in conjunction with the Carbon Trust in the UK, the company set up by the UK Government to accelerate the move to a low carbon economy. ... (Read Full Article)

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100 not out as Carbon Trust Standard reaches a low carbon century

Explore carbontrust.co.uk (Aug 17 2009) Monitoring , Carbon Footprint , Emissions , Fossil Fuel

One year from its launch, the Carbon Trust Standard Company has certified financial services group HSBC as its 100th achiever. Over the last 1......e Group serves customers worldwide from around 9,500 offices in  86  countries  and  territories in Europe, the Asia-Pacific region, the Americas, the Middle East and Africa. With assets of US$2,527 billion... (Read Full Article)

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