PC Power Management | Tips to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint.

“Richland One has saved over $500,000.00 last 12 Months by using this energy software to shut down our computers each night.” -Dr. Percy Mack, Superintendent & Green IT Innovator at the Richland One School District

These days, the importance of reducing your carbon footprint reduction has been gaining immense popularity and people are becoming increasingly concerned about how to reduce their carbon footprint by cutting back on their personal energy use. In order to be environment friendly, we must all strive to find (and share) tips and energy saving ways! To make an even larger dent, you may want to select an IT efficiency product that can offer you an enterprise wide energy efficient product and green IT services. Green IT enables you to explore an exciting new side of technology that opens up a whole new era of energy efficient life. You may go for PC power management that turns off computers at night or forces them to sleep when they are not being used during the day. There are also several useful PC power management products available, and ours also goes a few steps further and reduced the carbon footprint of your computer labs and can even save money with software metering.

There are several companies that extend their services in energy efficient computing, ours takes it to the next level by offering software metering, software inventory, and computer lab management. As an individual you may also make sure that you care to consider about the following personal steps towards a Green IT world:

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PC Power Management | Will Help Offset the Power Costs of These Classroom Energy Hogs!

“Richland One has saved over $500,000.00 last 12 Months by using this energy software to shut down our computers each night.” -Dr. Percy Mack, Superintendent & Green IT Innovator at the Richland One School District

Let’s go ahead and face it. Gone are the days when the Facilities Director at your k-12 school district or business only had to worry about keeping the HVAC and the lighting going. IT Efficiency in the technology age changed the way both education and businesses do their daily business. Energy demands are going to keep going up with no relief in sight. In fact, trends over the last several years have shown a tremendous spike in energy use and GreenerEd wants to share some of the trends we’ve seen coming to a classroom near you very soon. Your energy bills are going to explode, but you can help reduce this with a PC Power Management plan from Energy Enforcer.

We are pretty sure the last chalk filled eraser in the US was tossed in the dumpster a few days ago. The highly efficient, extremely reusable, amazingly versatile, and superbly inexpensive to operate chalk-board has been replaced with the modern digital whiteboard. These amazing k-12 devices interact with computer systems and bring interactive content and feedback to our kids in ways that were simply unimaginable only a decade ago. All this interaction comes with a price, the cost of the interactive whiteboards does not stop at just the substantial one-time purchasing investment.  There are substantial recurrent energy costs. Green IT is critical and these things are energy hogs!

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Energy is a huge budget item and PC Power Management is proven to save both energy and money.

“Our School District saved over $500,000.00 last year just by using this energy software to shut down our computers at night.”  -Dr. Percy Mack, Superintendent & Innovator at the Richland One School District

Let’s face some K-12 Energy Facts: School District budgets are getting tighter and tighter and the rumblings of reductions in force (RIF’s) are growing loudly all across America. Superintendents and School District administrators everywhere in the United States are actively looking for ways to tighten their finances and redirect money back to the classroom. South Carolina’s Capital City School District, Richland One Schools are forward thinkers and constantly looking out for the children of RCSD1. They are eager to find ways to avoid costs and still give the very best possible environment for the children of their District, they found one way with Energy Enforcer’s PC Power Management software.

School District budgets are getting tighter and tighter and the rumblings of reductions in force (RIF) are growing. Superintendents and School District administrators everywhere in the United States are looking for ways to tighten their finances and redirect money back to the classroom. South Carolina’s Capital City School District, Richland One Schools are forward thinkers  and constantly looking out for the children of RCSD1. They are eager to find ways to avoid costs and still give the very best possible environment for the children of their District, they found one way with Energy Enforcer’s PC Power Management software.

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PC Power Management Saves Money! How Much? Keep Reading.

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The United States Department of Energy regularly publishes power statistics for the average cost of energy by state. As a PC Power Management company it is critical that we keep track of this energy information. These are the latest published statistics from the feds. Wondering how much you are actually spending on energy? Just take few seconds to look up your state. The way the table works is simple, the first column is the average energy cost per kWh, the second column is the state and the third column is the cost of running a PC in that state for a year.

When you consider a school district with 5000-10000 computers that are sitting idle at least 40% of the day you can quickly see where PC Power Management from an enterprise class software suite (like Energy Enforcer) can really make a huge dent in your facilities costs. Our green computing software utilities will shut down computers at night and put computers to sleep when they are left unattended during the day. Energy Enforcer can save your business or school district’s large computing environment a considerable amount of money by eliminating much of the wasted energy, which is NOT CHEAP!

Check out the list below, these are national averages of kWh energy cost by state.

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Shutting Down Computers at Night Will Save You Money

That’s pretty much the basics of what we do. Our PC Power Management software not only shut down computers at night, but it also monitors daily usage patterns and intelligently sleeps unattended PCs during the day. If I turn off my computers at night, how much will it save? Well… there’s a lot more to answering that question than you may think, and believe it or not, be careful because it may depend on which PC Power Management company you ask! While still working in education the partners at GreenerEd learned early on that it is very easy to save school districts money on a spreadsheet. We were visited by folks from this technology company or that energy company, they’d come in with slick looking marketing materials and “show” us how their so-called PC Power Management solutions would save us money. They would whip out these beautiful marketing slicks and talk about all the PC Power Management they’d done for other districts and how we too needed to get on bandwagon. We’d make calls to our counterparts, who’d never heard of their PC Power Management Software and then start over again. We finally just gave up and said you know what, if you want it done right, you just have to do it yourself.

What really sets us apart as a company is that we don’t just ESTIMATE the savings your company or school district will profit from using our PC Power Management system, we VALIDATE the savings! In order to verify any PC Power Management system, the Greener Education Company had to do the impossible, we had to define the average PC. It’s a lot like trying to define the “average American.” Think about that for a moment, all PCs are different, they have different usage patterns, they need to power down at different times of day, they need to shut off at night at different times, they have different kWh requirements, energy costs vary from state-to-state, and the list keeps going. If a PC Power Management company comes in and gives you a number, they are lying to you. They are working from guess work. Of course, they will never tell you that. However, this is the fact – in order to accurately define cost avoidance with any PC Power Management Software, you have to actually meter the results.

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