Thomson Reuters looks to climb CRC league table
Business information company is implementing green projects to increase market attractiveness
Thomson Reuters, the business information company, is working on several projects designed to help it secure a leading position in the soon-to-be-implemented CRC league table.
The CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme, formerly known as the Carbon Reduction Commitment, is the UK’s mandatory climate change and energy saving scheme. Its web site (still branded as CSC) states: “[The] CRC performance league table will rate and compare the participants’ carbon reduction efforts. A high ranking could enhance your reputation with customers, suppliers, business partners, employees and investors alike.”
Harkeeret Singh, global head of energy and sustainable tech at Thomson Reuters, said the first table will be published in April 2011, and will rank about 5,000 UK companies based on their carbon reduction performance.
Singh wants his company to be ahead of the game with its green projects, and has implemented a scheme known as cash for kilowatts.
“It’s an incentive scheme open to all our datacentres to work out what power savings could be made. The idea is to get thousands of people thinking about energy efficiencies, not just me,” Singh explained.
As a result of the scheme, many servers have been turned off or removed from datacentres, leading to significant cost savings.
“Some of the kit installed in datacentres was no longer needed,” Singh said. “Either they hosted obsolete applications, software had moved to other servers, or the services had been virtualised.”
Additionally, the organisation is taking local climate into consideration with future datacentre location plans.
“If you build a new datacentre, it’s good to build it in a cold environment, but not too cold,” said Singh. He explained that cold air could be pumped into a building from outside to cool server rooms, but conversely if the environment was too cold, the building would need to be heated, greatly reducing potential energy and cost savings.
Stuart Sumner, Computing, Wednesday 11 August 2010 at 15:09:00
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