Comments on: How To Benchmark Data Center Energy Costs http://www.environmentalleader.com/2009/01/13/how-to-benchmark-data-center-energy-costs/ The Executive's Daily Green Briefing Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:36:47 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: John Kimball http://www.environmentalleader.com/2009/01/13/how-to-benchmark-data-center-energy-costs/comment-page-1/#comment-103363 John Kimball Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:16:43 +0000 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2009/01/13/how-to-benchmark-data-center-energy-costs/#comment-103363 Partnering with Computer Data Centers The Department of Energy’s Industrial Technologies Program (ITP), through “Save Energy Now” public outreach, is working with U.S. computer data centers to reduce their energy consumption. Here you'll find information about tools, partnerships, and planned activities. Principle tool is a free download, DCPRO. The Data Center Energy Profiler, or DC Pro, is an online software tool designed to help industries worldwide quickly "diagnose" how energy is being used by their data centers and how they might save energy and money. The beta version of DC Pro was tested by 610 users, and comments received from many of those users have been incorporated into Version 1.0 of the tool, now available for download. New features include: Online tutorial Enhanced user interface Answers to frequently asked questions through "Tool-Tips" Ability to create a PDF Report of the results Customize the source energy factor for each energy stream to account for electricity produced from cogeneration, renewable sources, etc. Easier formats to enter Data Center input energy streams See: http://www1.eere.energy.gov/industry/saveenergynow/partnering_data_centers.html Partnering with Computer Data Centers
The Department of Energy’s Industrial Technologies Program (ITP), through “Save Energy Now” public outreach, is working with U.S. computer data centers to reduce their energy consumption. Here you’ll find information about tools, partnerships, and planned activities. Principle tool is a free download, DCPRO.

The Data Center Energy Profiler, or DC Pro, is an online software tool designed to help industries worldwide quickly “diagnose” how energy is being used by their data centers and how they might save energy and money. The beta version of DC Pro was tested by 610 users, and comments received from many of those users have been incorporated into Version 1.0 of the tool, now available for download. New features include:

Online tutorial
Enhanced user interface
Answers to frequently asked questions through “Tool-Tips”
Ability to create a PDF Report of the results
Customize the source energy factor for each energy stream to account for electricity produced from cogeneration, renewable sources, etc.
Easier formats to enter Data Center input energy streams

See: http://www1.eere.energy.gov/industry/saveenergynow/partnering_data_centers.html

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