The UK government is seeking ideas from industry on how best to spend the £150m it has set aside for energy efficiency tax credits. Under the proposed Enhanced Capital Allowances scheme, businesses who invest in energy-saving technologies will be...
Advanced Datacom Systems (ADS) is providing Punch Retail with its Emcom NET/QC system to monitor the performance of its wide area network (WAN) throughout the UK. Formerly know as Allied Domecq Retail, the pub restaurant chain will use the set up...
The sheer amount of energy wasted trying to resist the transition from spinning CDs to hard drives and then holographic storage was astonishing. Don't take for granted the instant communications, robotics, security and monitoring systems, automated...
Gartner vice president Rakesh Kumar predicted last week that companies which do not control their energy usage could end up spending half their IT budget on energy. Employees who leave their PCs on overnight are costing their companies £70 each per...
This would allow offices to centralise and automate the lighting, heating, cooling and security systems. A 'super phone' acts as a remote control for the heating systems, allowing a building manager or IT worker to control the environment and...
It said the plan involves emissions created by electricity use and facility heating and cooling. A further nine per cent don't know, and of those that do monitor it a quarter have seen their energy consumption increase over the past two years.