Techmesh’s techbytes: Using Energy Savings and Carbon Trust Finance to fund new IT equipment
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TECHMESH welcomes VeryPC to techbytes, the Sheffield based company specialises in the development of energy efficient computing solutions and the environmentally aware approach to IT and computer manufacture. Techbytes is the monthly column specifically for IT & Telecoms leaders and professionals in Yorkshire and the Humber. Using Energy Savings and Carbon Trust Finance to Fund New IT Equipment In the economic climate getting the most out of your most expensive resource (your staff) is important to the profitability of your business. Updating old, slow computer equipment can be one way to do this, not only that but research suggests that by having your staff work with 2 monitors it can increase productivity when using a computer by between 9% and 50%. Unfortunately, in this climate, budgets to upgrade IT equipment can be hard to come by – thankfully there is an interesting solution to this problem that can also help your business get some ‘green’ PR. You see, electricity is expensive and IT equipment uses lots of electricity – about 30%-60% of a commercial business’s electricity bill is likely IT related. Electricity is a rising cost too, as a rule of thumb, 1W, left on costs £1 per year (@11.4p/KWh), but with increasing energy costs this is likely to increase by as much as 50% in the next 5 years. Research Company Gartner said in 2008 that a typical PC uses 114.7W of electricity, so using our rule of thumb this currently costs £114.70 per year, for just one typical PC. Now, with the green movement that we’ve all seen in the last few years comes some new progress as modern “Energy Saving Trust Recommended” computers like the VeryPC BroadLeaf provide a full performance top-notch PC for as little as 18W on average, saving around 85% of the electricity cost. What’s more is that LED technology is now in computer screens, this means that two LED flat screens will use around half the energy of a just one normal LCD flat screen.The Carbon Trust Energy Efficiency Finance Scheme can help, by turning these new found energy savings into a capital budget to be spent on upgrades. For information on the carbon trust energy efficiency funding scheme and VeryPC equipment, talk to your IT supplier or visit www.very-pc.co.uk/financing VeryPC’s Chief Executive Peter Hopton is a key note speaker at November’s techmesh event, 17th November ‘Green IT – the impact on business’ in Sheffield. For further information about techmesh, please contact Helen Silverman on 0113 3845639, email helen.silverman@techmesh.org or visit our website www.techmesh.org More articles in
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