IBM New 'Energy Efficient' Data Center

IBM and Telecom Egypt has recently announced the construction of an innovative, state-of-the-art data center for Telecom Egypt that includes the world's most sophisticated energy-efficient "green" technologies.

Telecom Egypt is the leading telecommunications provider in Egypt, and the largest provider of fixed-line services in the Middle East with more than 10.4 million customers. Striving to improve customer satisfaction as a key long term success factor, TE chose IBM in 2007 to design and build the most sophisticated and energy-efficient data center in Egypt. Construction was recently completed.

ASUS's Energy Saving Motherboards

Catering to users who require motherboards that provide stable, robust performance while helping to save energy for a cleaner environment, ASUS, worldwide leader in motherboard production, has announced a brand new series of ASUS EPU motherboards.

Recognizing the importance of green computing, ASUS' EPU motherboards not only provide a hardware-driven energy saving solution that is more stable than other purely software-driven solutions, a whopping 80.23% CPU power savings and enhanced energy efficiency ratings of up to 96% is achieved – helping users in the cause to save energy for a greener environment.

Energy Efficiency Visionary To Address Conference

Dr. Amory Lovins, cofounder of the Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) and coauthor of "Winning the Oil Endgame: Innovation for Profits, Jobs, and Security," a Pentagon-cofunded blueprint for making the United States oil-free, will address attendees at the 2008 Joint Services Environmental Management Conference and Exhibition (http://www.jsemconference.com), May 5th-8th, 2008 at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver.

Dr. Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins founded the Rocky Mountain Institute in 1982. This private, non-profit organization focuses on resource efficiency including the use of renewable energy, a topic heavy on the minds of Department of Defense leaders as they determine how to provide reliable, affordable and environmentally responsible energy solutions for personnel in the field and at home.

Majoring In Renewable Energy

The Oregon Institute of Technology has developed the country’s first four-year undergraduate degree program in renewable-energy systems. This year the program is training 50 students and will graduate its first class.

The institute’s degree requires basic knowledge in engineering, electrical circuits, motors and generators, thermodynamics, heat transfer and the language of computers. Then come specialized courses in photovoltaics (solar energy research and technology), wind, biomass (the recycling of biological material), hydropower and geothermal energy development.

Robert Bass, 33, the assistant professor who directs the program, said his students would be applying their new bachelor of science degrees in a range of design, engineering, installation, auditing and programming careers in the region’s expanding green-power sector.

City Program Provides Energy Savings To Neighborhoods

Some of the 2,000-plus homes retrofitted with energy-saving measures in the City of Houston's Residential Energy Efficiency Program are reporting monthly energy savings of up to 20 percent.

The first of the homes was fitted with energy-saving measures such as weather-stripping, insulation and energy-efficient light bulbs in January 2007.

The city footed the bill for the project, which targeted certain neighborhoods.

Awarding Energy Efficiency Contracts

In 1994, state legislators created a law that allows Ohio's public colleges and universities to hire companies to improve energy efficiency based on the amount of money the company promised to save, instead of relying on the typical threshold of giving the job to the lowest and best bidder.

Because the law leaves a lot of room for interpretation, it's up to the colleges how extensive they want the work to be.

Companies have to promise that the work they do will pay for itself within five or 10 years.