Reduce Costs & Energy Consumption with a free PC Power Saving Plan & Calculator
Thursday, March 6, 2008 at 01:39PM Info-Tech Research Group and Greener Computing have two tools available online that can help your business lower energy consumption and save money. The free research report PC Power Saving Plans Reduce Costs & Environmental Impact can help you learn about techniques for advanced power management.
This research report, made available specially to GreenerComputing readers by the Info-Tech Research Group, looks at the history of PC power management, offers an overview of the capabilities of the Windows OS and third-party power management software, and presents the possible pitfalls of implementing a power management plan as well as an action plan.
The other resource is the PC Power Saving Plan Calculator:
This tool measures the approximate payback period for advanced scheduling software, and gives IT an idea of how much energy and money can be saved by implementing a PC Power Saving Plan. It also illustrates the mass of C02 emissions averted, and the equivalent number of cars taken off the road by implementing a PC Power Saving Plan.
The full report and the calculator are both available at Info-Tech.