I’m learning more about the CRC legislation that comes into effect next year and it’s sounding like a rather expensive undertaking for business so far.  From what I can gather, and in very simple terms, organisations within the scope of this legislation will initially need to buy allowances (emission credits) from the Government at a cost of £12/tonne of CO2 produced. 

Now say we have a client who has 50 mid sized servers and wants to use our technology to virtualise and reduce down to 12 servers: that client will SAVE approx £17K in energy costs per annum and reduce CO2 emissions by 95 tonnes.  Multiply the 95 tonnes by the £12/tonne cost then that’s another annual saving of £1140 in CRC legislation costs.

Take into account that they’re getting significantly higher application availability at the same time – it’s got to be worth looking at, surely?

Tags: green IT, Reduce Carbon Emissions, reduce energy costs, Virtualisation

This entry was posted by Tracy Barlow on Saturday, August 8th, 2009 at 11:13 am and is filed under Business Continuity, Green Issues, High Availability, Virtualisation. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.