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SCC urges companies to audit energy usage or face punitive charges

 Technology integrator SCC has warned UK businesses that they must take control of their carbon footprint now or risk facing punitive charges under the terms of the government’s strengthening carbon reduction programme.



 
 


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Organisations face the complex and inter-connected issues of trying to understand and accurately measure the electrical and carbon footprint of an entire IT estate.
 


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The Energy consumption by IT is now a major operational cost for every organisation. According to DEFRA, on average a company’s IT, IS, and ICT equipment consumes, directly and indirectly, 40% of the entire company’s energy bill.



  
 
 
     
 

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  • An award winning and proven approach for boosting Energy Efficiency and reducing Carbon emissions from an organisation's total IT estate.
  • Our solutions, skills, and services can help transform your data centre and IT system, helping them become more effective and efficient in the power they consume, lowering costs and benefitting the environment.
  • SCC and IBM’s Energy Efficiency Initiative encompasses a comprehensive set of capabilities ranging from best practices in Energy Efficiency, to innovative power and cooling technologies, to eco-friendly asset disposal services.
  
     
     
 

Did you know?

  
 
  • The government is forecasting that by 2017 there will be power cuts of around 3,000 megawatt hours per year.
  • There are additionally many challenges as the UK responds to the requirements of the Climate Change Bill with a target reduction in carbon emissions of 35% by 2020.
  • The new Conservative-Lib Dem coalition has pledged to cut central government emissions by 10% in the next 12 months. The commitment is the most high-profile success to date for the 10:10 climate change campaign, which launched in September last year.
  
     
  Monitoring your energy costs is a business basic, but it is remarkable  
 

how many enterprises are wasting huge amounts of electricity every day because either they have too much equipment, their staff are using it incorrectly or their systems are wrongly configured. These are issues that can be easily addressed, often without much capital cost, but with the UK facing power brownouts by 2016 and electricity costs steadily rising, organisations must address them as a matter of urgency.

Richard Lanyon-Hogg, Chief Technology Officer, Industrial Industry at IBM (UK) Ltd



  
  Need to comply with the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme?
The CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme (CRC) is a new piece of UK legislation that came into effect in April 2010. It aims to reduce carbon emissions from the 20,000 largest organisations in the UK by 1.2 million tonnes per year.