With energy bills on the rise, and temperatures dropping, winter can be an expensive time of the year. It can be tricky to balance not spending too much with making sure your residence is warm enough to be comfortable. Below … Continue reading
Category Archives: Energy Efficiency
Sustainable ventilation and insulation
by Agnes Stephens As winters are getting colder and summers come with record high temperatures, we may think more and more about the comfort of a well-insulated and well-ventillated house. Today, many companies are working on incorporating simple and easy … Continue reading
Energy Efficient Lighting
Reducing your lighting bill is one of the easiest ways to save money, as lighting can account for up to 8% [1] of the average household’s monthly bill, and an even larger percentage of a small business’ electricity consumption. … Continue reading
Smart Meters and Energy Monitors: Helping to Reduce Your Electricity Bill
Smart Meters The government aims to have smart meters installed in every one of the 27 million businesses and homes in the UK by 2020, in order to try and reduce the country’s carbon emissions levels. Energy companies are … Continue reading
Data Centres towards “Greener”: Virtualization strategy
As the amount of applications and systems that data centre companies use to run their businesses have increased exponentially, it has become clearer that the hardware resources utilized for supporting these applications are not being used to their maximum potential. … Continue reading
Reducing Your Business Travel Emissions
As an energy intensive activity, transportation offers a wide range of opportunities to reduce both money and emissions. For most businesses the main type of vehicle use is that of employee’s commuting to and from work, and travel for … Continue reading
Can your roof really save you money?
Energy efficiency can be defined as ‘using less energy to produce the same amount of services or useful output’ (Patterson,1996).Concerns over energy efficiency has meant the government has a mission to seize the energy efficiency opportunity . This will be … Continue reading
Hot and Cold Aisle Containment: The top Data Centres Power Saving Strategy
Data centre managers historically have had three main goals when designing and operating the data centre: resiliency, availability and security. However, in a world of ever increasing environmental concerns such as carbon footprints and with the rising cost of … Continue reading
Alternative Home Insulation
According to the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change in October 2012 in their estimates of home insulation levels, there are 26.9 million homes in the UK. They conclude that 66% of homes with lofts have loft insulation … Continue reading
DATA CENTRES ON FIRE: “CENTRES HUNGRY OF POWER”
Data centers, also known as the server farm or the computer room are where the majority of an enterprise´s servers and storage are located, operated and managed. A data center is a facility that stores, manages, processes, and exchanges digital … Continue reading
