UK Government and the Green Challenge
Things are moving at pace in the Cabinet Office in the area of Efficiency and Reform Group improvements. The latest being an incitement to work together with contractors to reduce energy usage by 10%. See here . This is a call to arms from Government to their network of service providers to help to accomplish the targets for improvement. This specific call is to adopt the new Energy Efficiency Code. This states that all departments should:- work with facilities management contractors to prepare plans to cut carbon by ten per cent by May 2011;
- give serious consideration to private sector ideas to cut carbon emissions; and
- agree to explore agreements, possibly through changes to existing contracts, which benefit government departments and private companies in their pursuit of reducing carbon emissions.
Could this be the pattern of things to come? I think so. Helping to achieve targets will move the government forwards and perhaps is the best portend of the opportunity ahead for the G-Cloud programme. Now headed by Chris Chant and Andy Tait in John Suffolk's team at the Cabinet Office.
To help with the reduction in Carbon Emissions, we have a number of tools in our armoury in the IT Industry, perhaps here is the opportunity to begin to show what they can accomplish. After all, didn't someone say that Green IT is free? I.e. we should be able fund investments to reduce energy consumption through savings on our energy bill and operating costs?
And once we accomplish improved efficiency in our own shops, we can use our capabilities to support collaboration and remove the need for travel and commuting, and thus really gain traction in saving carbon emissions. The Carbon Neutral Data Centre, a possibility?
Certainly investments such as Virtualisation and selective Technology refresh can make a positive return. See our KTN website and the Green IT group for more!
Labels: Carbon Emissions, Energy Efficiency, G-Cloud, Green IT
posted by Ian Osborne, Grid Man Now! @ 8:34 AM
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