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Salesforce on track to being the cloud crm provider with the lowest carbon emissions

Salesforce on track to being the cloud crm provider with the lowest carbon emissions

By Tom Raftery on January 14, 2016

We have highlighted often enough what a poor job some cloud companies are doing of making their cloud infrastructure cleaner, and being transparent about their emissions. Against that backdrop, it is heartening to see some more enlightened cloud companies doing the right thing. Salesforce announced today its second renewable energy purchase agreement. The first announcement, […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Cloud, power purchase agreements, ppas, Renewable energy, salesforce, vppas, wind energy

Equinix rolls out 1MW fuel cell for Silicon Valley data center

Equinix rolls out 1MW fuel cell for Silicon Valley data center

By Tom Raftery on May 22, 2015

Equinix is powering one of its Silicon Valley data centers with a 1MW Bloom Energy fuel cell

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Apple Inc., Cloud, Cloud Computing, data center, equinix, Facebook, google, greenpeace, Renewable energy

IBM to increase the amount of renewable electricity it procures

IBM to increase the amount of renewable electricity it procures

By Tom Raftery on March 27, 2015

After returning from IBM’s InterConnect conference recently we chided IBM for their aping of Amazon’s radical opaqueness concerning their cloud emissions, and their lack of innovation concerning renewables. However, some better news emerged in the last few days. The Whitehouse last week hosted a roundtable of some of the largest Federal suppliers to discuss their […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Cloud, electricity, Electricity generation, emissions, greenhouse gas emissions, ibm, Renewable energy, renewables

Cloud computing companies ranked by their use of renewable energy

Cloud computing companies ranked by their use of renewable energy

By Tom Raftery on April 4, 2014

Cloud computing is booming. Cloud providers are investing billions in infrastructure to build out their data centers, but just how clean is cloud? Given that this is the week that the IPCC’s 5th assessment report was released, I decided to do some research of my own into cloud providers. The table above is a list […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Amazon, bluelock, Cloud, Cloud Computing, gogrid, google, greenqloud, ibm, Rackspace, Renewable energy, sap, SoftLayer, Windows Azure

Friday Green Numbers round-up 06/25/2010

Friday Green Numbers round-up 06/25/2010

By Tom Raftery on June 25, 2010

Photo credit Unhindered by Talent And here is this week’s Green numbers: Six Infrastructure Projects to Save 1.3 Billion Gallons of Water in Australia Australia is no stranger to tight water supplies, and fortunately that means smart water conservation strategies are being devised all the time. Australia is leading the way in everything from strategies […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Electricity generation, GreenNumbers, Kilowatt hour, microsoft, Personal computer, Renewable energy, Water conservation

Friday Green Numbers round-up 06/18/2010

Friday Green Numbers round-up 06/18/2010

By Tom Raftery on June 18, 2010

And here is this week’s Green numbers: BP oil spill costs hit $1.6bn | Business The cost of BP’s clean-up operation in the Gulf of Mexico has now hit $1.6bn (£1.1bn), but the final cost of the huge oil spill remains unquantifiable. tags: oilspill, bp, cleanup, clean-up, Gulf of Mexico, greennumbers Money trumps security in […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged bluefin tuna, coal, GreenNumbers, gulf of mexico, joe barton, Natural gas, oil, oilspill, Renewable energy, subsidies, tony hayward

SunSpec Alliance setting standards for the solar industry

SunSpec Alliance setting standards for the solar industry

By Tom Raftery on May 6, 2010

Photo credit Tom Raftery (Me!)
Sunspec.org is an alliance of renewable industry companies whose aim is to define communication standards data monitoring for the solar power industry.
Up until now there haven’t been any standards agreed around data communication in the solar power industry which added huge cost and complexity to the monitoring and management of […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged data communication, iec, ieee, Renewable energy, smart grid, solar, Solar power, standards, sunspec alliance

Friday Morning Green Numbers round-up 03/19/2010

Friday Morning Green Numbers round-up 03/19/2010

By Tom Raftery on March 19, 2010

Here is this Friday’s Green Numbers round-up: Nissan: 500,000 Electric Cars by 2012 – News – Automotive Fleet Nissan is planning for a production capacity of 500,000 Leaf electric cars in North America, Japan and Europe by 2012, the Chicago Tribune reported. tags: nissan leaf, nissan, greennumbers, electric cars, electric vehicles Carbon capture storage will […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged carbon calculator, ccs, daylight saving time, denver international airport, electric vehicles, Energy, energy demand, energy efficiency, GreenNumbers, light, nissam, Nissan Leaf, Renewable energy, royal dutch shell

Is there really any need for baseload power?

Is there really any need for baseload power?

By Tom Raftery on March 17, 2010

Photo credit wonderferret The electricity grid may not need “baseload” generation sources like coal and nuclear to backup the variability of supply from renewables. Jon Wellinghof is the Chairman of the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). FERC is an independent agency that amongst other things, regulates the interstate transmission of electricity, natural gas, and […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged baseload, coal, coal fired power, Electricity generation, ferc, Fossil fuel, Nuclear power, Renewable energy, renewables, solar, utilities, Wind power

Friday Morning Green Numbers round-up 03/12/2010

Friday Morning Green Numbers round-up 03/12/2010

By Tom Raftery on March 12, 2010

Here is this Friday’s Green Numbers round-up: 11 Siberian tigers starve to death at Chinese zoo Eleven Siberian tigers died of starvation in north-eastern China’s Liaoning province after a cash-strapped zoo fed them only chicken bones, state media said Friday. The 11 tigers died over the past three months at the privately run Shenyang Forest […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged China, Cisco, energy efficiency ratings, European Union, free-range eggs, Packaging, pyrenees, Renewable energy, siberian tiger

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