Green Technology

IBM collaborates with Neuwing Energy Ventures to create energy efficiency certification for data center operations. The initiative allows for benchmarking, sharing, and recognition for the participants. The process requires establishing the baseline, implementing the improvements, and final verification before certification of the achievements. ...

... "The certificates earned -- based on energy use reduction verified by a third-party -- for the first time provide a way for businesses to attain a certified measurement of their energy use reduction, a key, emerging business metric. The certificates can be traded for cash on the growing energy efficiency certificate market or otherwise retained to demonstrate reductions in energy use and associated CO2 emissions. The Efficiency Certificates initiative engages Neuwing Energy Ventures, a leading verifier of energy efficiency projects and marketer of energy efficiency certificates, to document and verify the energy savings a client achieves through implementing energy efficiency projects. " ...