Sustainability strategies 'can lead to massive savings'

31/08/2010

Firms could make significant savings on business energy usage if they employ sustainability strategies.

According to Paul Anderson, programme director for infrastructure outsourcing at IT services and business consultancy firm Capgemini, environmentally-friendly practices will "be high on the agenda [for companies] because of everyone becoming more aware of the requirement".

"[With] regards to business, for elements of sustainability and greening there can be massive savings, and it will bring down the scale of their overall carbon footprint," he added.

His comments came as Computing.co.uk reported that the Environment Agency will be using the "world's greenest data centre" - the Capgemini Merlin Tier 3 data centre.

The 30,000 sq ft, Tier 3 facility, aims to set a new standard for business energy efficiency, with the best Power Usage Effectiveness rating of any data centre in the world.

Recently, Business Green reported that firms will soon be able to calculate their business energy using an online modelling tool from Microsoft's Windows 7.

Posted by Dan Morris