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In the News Archive: 2003-2007


2007 News

Energy Tech Stocks
November 9, 2007
12 Small, Unknown Companies That Could Change the World (#10 – Verdiem Corp.)
"This EnergyTechStocks.com Special Report highlights 12 companies that few investors have heard about – yet – which in the opinion of EnergyTechStocks.com have a technology, product or process that could change how the world produces and/or consumes energy."

Big Ideas in Technology
Fall/Winter 2007
Where it's headed - and how you can profit from it (Starts on Page 10 of PDF) Like practically everyone else at her office outside Portland, Oregon, Cindy Tatham was tired of e-mails from the IT department pleading for her to shut down her computer at night. Many employees refused to do it, for fear they’d be logged off the network. But Tatham—who studied energy policy in graduate school and once worked for Enron—knew the computers were an energy sink, no less because the air conditioners had to counter the heat they produced.

InformationWeek
November 5, 2007
Want to Save the Planet? Turn off that PC
"Authored by Rakesh Kumar and Lars Mieritz, the Gartner study measured carbon emissions from a variety of IT devices and found that the top three are PCs/monitors, data centers, and fixed-line telecommunications systems, in that order. PCs and monitors alone contribute 40% of total carbon emissions, data centers around 23%."

"We've seen a dramatic increase in corporate interest in the sustainability movement in general," said Klustner.

The reasons are not hard to fathom: not only are corporations finding that going green pays PR dividends, but Verdiem's Surveyor software boasts tangible financial returns as well. Klustner estimates that savings on power total between $20 and $60 per PC per year, depending on electricity rates and the type of hardware and software running. (Financial service firms, for instance, use powerful machines often with multiple monitors, so the savings are higher.) Surveyor costs $25 for a one-time license fee per PC plus 20% maintenance annually.’

Inc. Magazine
November 2007
Power Ranger
Computers consume a lot of power even when nobody's using them. If users won't take time to power down their PCs, Surveyor software will.

Finding The Off Switch
"A PC in standby or hibernate mode can use up to 90 percent less power than one that's on. But a University of California at Berkeley study found that 75 percent of office PC users don't use their power-management systems. And IT departments often prefer that unattended machines stay on in case they need to distribute a patch, such as a virus protection update. High electric bills? They don't come out of the IT budget."

Greener Computing
August, 2007
Silicon Valley's Green Detente
This essay is an exclusive excerpt adapted from Kevin Klustner's upcoming book, "Energy Efficiency -- The Future is Now," which will be released in October. Greener World Media will be publishing a series of excerpts from the book on our sites in the coming weeks.

Almost 30 years ago, the President of the United States pulled on a cardigan sweater and pulled down his administration by telling the truth about energy efficiency.

It was called energy conservation back then, and Jimmy Carter had it right when he directly challenged the oil and automobile industries and called the United States the "most wasteful nation on Earth."

Carter was well ahead of his time on energy conservation, but after the intervening decades of steadily increasing energy and oil use gave way to the now-widespread recognition of and concern about climate change, energy efficiency is in vogue, and here to stay. The ideas are taking root across a range of business sectors, in peoples' homes and in policy debates, and momentum is only growing. In the excerpts that we'll be running in the coming weeks, we will explore the ways that companies and individuals are applying to their fields, and the huge potential for change that is quickly coming over the horizon...

DowJones Clean Technology Investor
Monday, July 16, 2007
Kleiner Perkins Leads $8M Round For Verdiem
"The company's software program, called SURVEYOR, monitors an entire information technology network and essentially puts individual computers into sleep-mode when they aren't being used. 'The problem is people don't do that [manually],' said Klustner. He said that the product's complexity comes from both monitoring and measuring a large IT network, as well as reporting the efficiencies produced by the program. The software issues reports on how much energy it saved and how much in dollar savings that resulted in. The company estimates savings of about $20 per PC per year."

Seattle Post-Intelligencer
July 13, 2007
Venture Capital: Startup cuts PC power use
"Some corporations are interested in being more green because it is good marketing, some want it for employee retention purposes... and some realize that being green actually represents a good cost savings," Schlein said. "You take all of that ... and it leads you to Verdiem."

"It is a no-brainer first step for corporate IT to begin contributing to an overall corporate sustainability objective," said Klustner, a former Sightward and WRQ executive who joined the startup as chief executive last year."

New York Times Deal Book
July 13, 2007
Verdiem Powers Up $8.33 Million in Funding
"According to The Seattle Post-Intelligencer's Venture Blog, Verdiem is benefiting from a movement among corporations to embrace green technology. The company's products focus on powering down personal computers when they aren't in use."

VentureBeat
July 13, 2007
Cleantech: Verdiem raises $8 million from Kleiner Perkins, others, to save PC energy
"Verdiem says it saves an average of $20-$65 per computer per year by moving each machine into a lower power state - hibernate, sleep or shut down - when it is not being used. For some organizations this can mean a five percent to 15 percent reduction in consumption immediately."

Red Herring
July 13, 2007
Kleiner Sees Green in Going Green
"It's just plain common sense. When computer networks aren't in use, power down PCs and then permit a remote IT manager to wake them up for software updates and other maintenance, saving energy and money.

In a sign that the idea is finally catching on - at least in VC circles - Seattle startup Verdiem said Friday that it had raised $8.3 million in a funding round led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers."

Wall Street Journal
March 27, 2007
IT Managers Make a Power Play
"Quad/Graphics Inc. in Sussex, Wis., has also outfitted its 4,000 PCs with Surveyor after a pilot study of the software last year showed it would shave 35% to 50% off the cost of the company's computer power bills, say officials of the commercial printer. This equates to as much as $70,000 annually in lower power costs. That's a real boon, the officials add, since their business has been squeezed by fierce pricing pressure. "Every dollar saved has a direct impact to the bottom line," says Mike Fegley, Quad/Graphics's manager of energy and corporate facilities."

InfoWorld
June 13, 2007
When PCs don't snooze, you lose
"Verdiem, which offers a power management product called SURVEYOR, uses the reporting features at the beginning of the implementation process to help companies gauge just what kind of savings they might reap. 'We go into their organizations and install the client on a smattering of machines, and we use it to collect information about how efficient their power management policies actually are. Given user behavior and their policies, we see how much opportunity there is to save energy, and what the ROI would be,' says Twito."

Seattle Post Intelligencer
June 13, 2007
Seattle can teach G-8 countries something about energy efficiency
"Indeed, the future is now for energy efficiency as it moves front and center in all major conversations about the emerging energy economy. Whether it's policy-makers, investors, entrepreneurs or executives, the realistic and pragmatic environmental voices are beginning to zero in on what's possible.

Energy efficiency is very possible -- and very real. It's seen as one of the least expensive, most effective and immediately adoptable action items for dealing with the environmental challenges we face. If you're generating less energy, you have fewer power plants, fewer pollutants and fewer problems."

VAR Business
June 7, 2007
Verdiem Woos Channel With PC Power Management Software
"One VAR familiar with the software says the product is an easy sale that can open the door for sales of other services and products.

"It's so easy to do -- it's just a little thing you can do that pays for itself,' says Terry Joslin, president and CEO of Western Blue, a VAR in Sacramento, Calif., with revenue in the neighborhood of $100 million. 'Once it's installed, we can do a network energy assessment every six months to make sure [customers] are still getting savings...it's just a basic health check, and it keeps us in front of them and keeps the savings data fresh."

CIO
June 6, 2007
Energy-Efficient IT Leadership
How CIOs can become champions of environmental sustainability. And the business case for why they should.

Nothing big happens without a leader to champion it. Whether motivated by the bottom line or concern about the planet (hopefully both), CIOs and IT managers play a critical leadership role in putting their companies on an energy diet.

We wanted to know how IT leaders can go about leading the charge to reduce corporate energy use. So we asked six experts to assess the impact IT can have on energy consumption and weigh in on best tools and techniques for capturing the value of greener computing. Our panel of technology leaders, researchers and vendors includes:
  • Marv Adams, CIO, Citigroup
  • John Davies, VP, Green Technology Research, AMR Research
  • David Douglas, VP, Eco-Responsibility, Sun Microsystems
  • David Kepler, CIO, Dow Chemical
  • Kevin Klustner, CEO, Verdiem
  • Jonathan Koomey, Staff Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Consulting Professor, Stanford University

The group met over e-mail during a week in May. A transcript of the conversation follows, along with links to more information you can use to build your own case for a greener, more energy-efficient company.

InformationWeek
May 23, 2007
The Greening Of Interop
"According to Harvey, credibility vis-a-vis environmental impact almost has more weight with companies than dollars. 'If you tell a Fortune 100 bank, 'We can save you a million dollars,' they'll say, 'Well, that's interesting.' What they really want to do is have a sustainability report that proves they're doing something for the environment."

NetworkWorld
May 10, 2007
Energy bills rising? These tips may help
"Verdiem's Surveyor software helps businesses measure, manage and reduce the energy usage of PCs on their networks. The tool centralizes control of the power settings of networked PCs; IT managers can create power-management policies and schedule preset shutdown times for PCs, for example."

EcoTalk - radio
May 9, 2007
Verdiem makes computers more energy efficient.
The city of Boston has cut its PC energy use by an astonishing 44 percent with the help of power management software company Verdiem. With power management something we need in every city, Verdiem Vice President of Business Development Dave Harvey tells Betsy what they can offer to any City or Company in the land. Listen to the interview (link above).

O'Reilly Radar
May 7, 2007
Verdiem: Smart Power Management for Your Machine
"It's common to leave computers on all the time. People want their machine to always be there for them. The problem is PCs consume a lot of power -- whether or not they are actually being used. Verdiem has developed SURVEYOR, a product that aims to help PCs be smart about power, save businesses money, and still keep PCs responsive."

CIO Green IT Blog
April 18, 2007
Energy Efficiency Is Very PC
"...While I'm not about to assume any IT department is going to start making their own earth friendly PCs from scratch, it's still an interesting read. You might even discover a new hobby.

Perhaps a more practical way to make your PCs more energy efficient is through a third party vendor like Verdiem. Its Surveyor product monitors a user's habits and places the PC into lower energy settings, such as hibernation and standby, when it's not being used."

TreeHugger
April 5, 2007
Interview: Verdiem, Making Computers Use Less Energy
"It's smart. SURVEYOR works by intelligently placing PCs into lower power settings when not in use. SURVEYOR's Adaptive SmartProfile (TM) analyzes the behavior of the user. This information is used to control the power settings, ensuring that networked PCs are in right power state (on, hibernate, standby, etc.) at the right time. This maximizes energy savings without interfering with end-user productivity. SURVEYOR also features reporting capabilities to quantify savings."

Seattle Times
March 19, 2007
The Business of Energy Conservation
Because corporations are looking to reduce their environmental footprint, they're forcing all areas in their companies to participate...but there hasn't been a lot of attention paid to the IT-device side yet,' he said.

Workers often don't turn off PCs, Klustner said, because they have misconceptions about lower power modes; don't want to wait for the PC to turn on in the morning; or are told by the IT departments to leave the computers running."

KCTS Televsion
March 6, 2007
All About the Money: CEO Spotlight
Verdiem CEO Kevin Klustner spoke about the product that will save energy, money, and the planet.

KIRO News Radio 710
March 6, 2007
Energy bills have skyrocketed at companies as we've come to rely on computers more than ever. In this CEO Spotlight, Jason Brooks talks to a company that's helping computers go green.

ITP Report
February 28, 2007
Faster, greener, cheaper? "Kevin Klustner, President and CEO of Verdiem, a leading developer of power management software for PC networks, observes that 'it is just starting to dawn on companies and individuals how much energy is used and wasted by PCs and servers. The first generations of the products were all about increasing performance. I think we'll see a shift to an increase in efficiency, especially as a result of the legislation being passed in the US and Europe."

AMR Research
February 26, 2007
Do PCs Dream of Electric Sleep?
"Verdiem has created a software utility called Surveyor, which allows companies to centrally measure and manage PC power settings. The Surveyor software allows network administrators to measure PC power usage and then centrally administer energy saving strategies. For example, companies can transition to low-consumption energy states based on time of day or user activity. Managers can also schedule PCs to wake up at night to administer software upgrades without interrupting users during the work day."

"In discussions with managers at several large educational institutions, each claimed paybacks within 18 months. A school district close to Microsoft's Redmond campus uses 11,000 PCs in 45 schools. As the district's Resource Conservation Manager noted, 'telling people to do the right thing doesn't work.' While the district had been struggling to get energy use down, automating PC energy savings 'was a touchdown."

eWeek
February 26, 2007
Going Green: Taking the Eco-Friendly Path
"In the past, users largely paid little attention to the operations side of the equation. 'Historically, there hasn't been a lot of attention to energy use because IT doesn't own the plug,' said Kevin Klustner, president and CEO of Verdiem, a software vendor in Seattle that makes energy management software."

"However, as electricity prices rise, utility costs are eating up an increasingly larger percentage of budgets, and customers are starting to look for power savings from the desktop to the data center. 'Energy costs have gone sky high, where they used to run 5 percent of budget and now they're as high as 30 in some cases,' said Warren Mootrey, senior director of volume SPARC systems for Sun Microsystems, based in Santa Clara, Calif."

Energy and Power Management
February 1, 2007
CUNY Manages Computer Energy
"Many facilities managers do not realize the hidden high cost of energy use by their organizations' PCs. During the past decade, PCs have grown in their power and size, translating into increased energy usage in the office. According to a 2002 study by Arthur Little (now known as TIAX), PCs and related equipment accounted for 9% of all energy used in offices, and were on their way to becoming the third largest source of power demand in the commercial sector."

WorldChanging
January 26, 2007
Can PC environments be green?
"So how does Surveyor work? It is a system that allows IT managers to monitor energy usage, manage it, and eventually reduce it. With a better understanding and reporting of energy usage patterns, it becomes possible to set up time-regulated power schemes. Additionally, it makes sure that network resources are being used efficiently, for example, in an office building where most people go home at night, an automatic power scheme could shut off all computers not being used."

2006 News

Public CIO
December 2006
Energy Hogs on the Server Farm - Side Bar: Greening the IT Department
"In 2004, the Lake Washington School District in Washington state installed power management software on its 12,000 PCs and 85 servers. The Surveyor product, developed by Seattle-based Verdiem Software, lets IT groups monitor power usage and put PCs to sleep when not in use."

'We leave our computers on 24/7 because we often work on them at night," explained Bob Siemers, a senior network engineer for the district. "This software gives us the best of both worlds, because we can leave them on, but when we're not working on them they are using much less energy. The savings are significant.'

Internews.com
December 2006
Enterprise interview
"Most PCs do have the ability to turn off into a hibernate state, but we've found that at most 25 percent really do and it's usually more like 10 percent. We solve this problem by letting IT managers profile users based on usage patterns and their time in and out of office to figure out the best time to have the PCs hibernate.

For example, if your users generally all leave at 5:30 p.m., you can have the hibernation set for 6:30 p.m. and come back up the next morning at 6:30 a.m. Also, when IT wants to distribute a software patch, the PCs can be all brought up at once and the patch distributed, which IT departments like because they don't want to have to deal with individual PCs."

Business 2.0 - Green Wombat
December 19, 2006
Verdiem: Energy-Savings Software Sales Boom as Corporate America Goes Green
"A running tally on Verdiem's site, for instance, trumpets that its clients have saved nearly $18 million and cut their greenhouse gas emissions by about 146,000 tons - the equivalent of taking 19,000 cars off the road. Such numbers give companies green bragging rights, of course, but also could potentially prove valuable as limits on greenhouse gases are imposed and carbon trading markets emerge in states like California."

WKOW 27 News/Madison Metropolitan School District Press Release
October 30, 2006
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"The award was for the school district?s ongoing commitment to becoming more energy efficient and the financial incentive check was given to help fund its recent implementation of PC network controls and high efficiency lighting throughout the district. The PC network controls software provided by Verdiem was installed to address unnecessary energy consumption in the operation of the MMSD?s computers."

CNET
October 20, 2006
Putting the electric motor on a diet

"Verdiem, meanwhile, has come up a remote system that puts idle PCs to sleep: So far, 300,000 machines are under its spell."

Optimize
September 2006
Executives Reflect A Mix Of Jitters, Confidence

"Twito says his confidence is spurred by the fact that his company benefits from new growth opportunity arising from today's tougher macroeconomic conditions. 'Because of the higher energy costs, there's a lot of interest in our products,' he says. 'Business is growing, and we're expanding our product-development efforts."

Network World
September 28, 2006
Google's energy savings push may power larger industry initiative

"Network power management savings can be double or triple what you get with the efficient power supplies' Google is talking about, Dunn says. He says in combination the two things could virtually eliminate energy waste in PCs.' In the aggregate, we are talking about extremely big dollar savings.'

And the savings can extend beyond just energy.

Verdiem CEO Kevin Klustner says his company has relationships with Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas and Electric, which provide rebates to users who deploy the Verdiem software."

ComputerWeekly
September 19, 2006
PC power management technology cuts CO2 emissions

"The City University of New York is installing Verdiem SURVEYOR on 28,000 PCs across 14 campuses. Ron Spalter, deputy chief operating officer of the university, says, "CUNY is always looking for innovative ways to operate more efficiently and reduce our 'environmental footprint.' With SURVEYOR, we can achieve both goals at the same time. The software saves money while reducing the greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to global warming."

CNET News
September 2006
Curbing the CO2 that comes from PC use

"The savings from SURVEYOR can be fairly substantial, according to Verdiem. The company has found that the software can cut power bills by $20 per PC and reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 440 pounds a year. Fifteen PCs can generate as much carbon dioxide annually as a typical midsize car, according to the company, although the exact figure depends on where and how the electricity is generated and other factors."

Distributed Energy
September 2006
Eliminating Energy Waste By PCs

"According to a 2002 study by Arthur Little (now known as TIAX), IT equipment such as PCs, monitors, and related office tools account for 9% of all energy consumed, and is on its way to becoming the third-largest source of power demand in the commercial sector"

"Reducing energy use of PC networks also helps reduce CO2 emissions, which is a leading cause of global warming. According to LBNL(Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories), an average PC is responsible for almost 1,000 pounds of CO2 emissions annually. As an example, 15 PCs alone can generate the equivalent CO2 that a typical mid-size car produces in a year. By adding power management software for its PC networks, an organization with 10,000 PCs can reduce its CO2 emissions by 3.2 million lbs yearly, equivalent to permanently removing over 225 cars from America?s roads."

Campus Technology
July 2006
Where Green and IT Meet

"...US colleges and universities spend nearly $2 billion each year on energy, according to the federal government, and the Department of Energy (DOE) estimates that the average PC wastes up to 400 kilowatt-hours of electricity per year simply by running at full power when no user is present."

"...perceptions-that energy consumption is a fixed cost, and that IT isn't involved-are both increasingly out-of-date. Computers are playing a growing role in energy management, as schools rely on sophisticated computerized energy management systems that rival the complexity of mission-critical systems on campus. Adopting a strategic approach to energy management, especially as new buildings are planned or retrofitted, can lower a university's energy bills by 30 percent or more, according to figures from the government's Energy Star website."

Enterprise IT: Planet.com
March 21, 2006
Power Savings Benefit IT

"...I decided to ... determine if there was a better way to manage the power consumption of the desktops, so I went to my friendly search engine and keyed in "PC Power Management". The first thing that popped up was a one liner advising me that I could save $15 to $30 annually per PC. In a split second I calculated a potential savings of about $300,000 for my environment. Not a huge chunk of change in the grand scheme things, but definitely enough to catch the eye of the skinflint down in the corner office. And it was about that time for an annual salary review, not that I had an ulterior motive.

Determine Feasibility
Further investigation revealed the product being touted was Verdiem's SURVEYOR, which is a power management product for Windows PCs that are networked. The system gives one the ability to manage the power state of all networked PCs..."



2005 News

Utility Automation & Engineering T&D
May 30, 2005
Utility Automation & Engineering Web Exclusive

"At a time when schools across America are squeezed for funding, Prince George's County Public Schools (PGCPS) has found an innovative way to cut costs without impacting its educational mission. The district, which serves over 135,000 students, has installed a software program from Verdiem Corporation that measures, manages, and reduces the energy consumption of over 17,000 of the district's PCs. The software is projected to save the district nearly $200,000 annually...."



2004 News

SchoolFacilities.com
March 31, 2004
Weekly e-Newsletter of SchooLFacilities.com

"SURVEYOR is a software utility for PC networks that allows an organization to measure and forecast the energy consumed by the network, manage the power settings of their networked PCs, and minimize their energy consumption and operating costs..."

Energy & Power Management
February 26, 2004
Desktop Energy Users Add to Energy Bills

"Millions of Americans go to their offices every day, scroll through the night's email, and spend the rest of the day using the commercial sector's most rapidly increasing energy devices: a computer and its monitor.

"Folks paying attention are not surprised that personal computers consume an increasingly large piece of the overall energy pie. The last ten years of the "digital age" have seen a dramatic proliferation of PCs and monitors in every sector of commerce, including agriculture and industry. With this increase in office equipment—generally defined as PCs, monitors, servers, printers, faxes, and copiers-the corresponding increase in their energy footprint has been the subject of numerous studies, stirred a fair amount of controversy, and become a growing concern in energy circles..."

Electric Perspectives, Journal of the EEI
January 30, 2004
Where Does the Power Go?

Electric Perspectives, Journal of the EEI

"Office and network equipment eats up about 9 percent of the total energy consumption in commercial buildings, according to a study commissioned by the Department of Energy. Of this, personal computers and monitors consume about 43 percent, or 42 billion kilowatt-hours of energy.

"But a staggering reality is that the equivalent of $2 billion of this energy is wasted each year, according to a recent report by Verdiem, an energy-efficiency software provider. This wasted energy is equivalent to the total combined generation from all six of New York State's nuclear powerplants in 2001..."

CFO Magazine
January 11, 2004
Up All Night

"For all the corporate exhorting of workers to cut costs wherever possible, employees remain a decidedly wasteful group. This is particularly true when it comes to using office equipment. Copier machines, expensive appliances to operate under the best of circumstances, are treated as personal printers, reproducing requests for proposals and wedding invitations in nearly equal numbers. Printers, conversely, are used as copier machines, churning out reams of novella-length reports.

"But nowhere is this insouciance more evident than in employees' treatment of computers. Walk around any office after closing time and you'll invariably find the same scene: a phalanx of PCs left to run all night, fans humming, status lights blinking, screen savers conjuring endless journeys through asteroid-filled galaxies..."



2003 News

BC Hydro
December, 2003
Power Smart Success Stories: A Case Study from BC Hydro

"Edwin learned about a new energy management software tool called SURVEYOR Network Energy Manager, developed by Verdiem Corporation (formerly EZConserve). SURVEYOR allows for centralized power management of both monitors and computer units. It is designed to measure, monitor and manage computers individually and on networks. The development of SURVEYOR was partially funded by the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance in the U.S. The software has been shown to significantly reduce electricity usage, and it has been approved as a conservation measure by the Bonneville Power Administration and other utilities..."

Energy & Power Management
November 24, 2003
SCE Deploys Verdiem Software

"Verdiem, maker of a software utility that measures, manages, and reduces energy consumption in large PC networks, will release this month the enterprise-class Version 2.0 of its popular SURVEYOR Network Energy Manager. The updated product enhances the scalability, energy reporting ability, and deployment capabilities of a client-server tool that has been shown to reduce the annual energy consumption of each PC on a network by 200 kWh or more, or from 25% to 50% of their average energy usage.

"The new software release is set to meet its first test on the PCs of one of America's largest utilities, Southern California Edison..."

e-FFICIENCY NEWS
The monthly newsletter from the Alliance to Save Energy
November 18, 2003
Office Computer Networks May Hold Surprising Energy-Saving Potential

"According to studies from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, U.S. businesses waste more than $1.6 billion annually to power computers that aren't being used. Although almost all computers come with an energy-saving "sleep" mode, research indicates that 75 percent of PC users disable such features. Software that monitors computer energy use and implements standard energy-saving "sleep" protocols across large computer networks can save companies as much as $375,000 in annual energy costs, says one company specializing in PC network energy efficiency that recently licensed its energy-saving software to the New York Power Authority and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory..."

Seattle Post-Intelligencer
October 15, 2003
Start-up Powering Toward Profits by Powering Down PCs

"Forgetting to turn off the computer when you leave the office at night?

"It may be costing your company hundreds of thousands of dollars. About 30 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity is wasted each year when workers do not shut down their energy-guzzling computers. That translates to about $3 billion annually -- or more than $8 million every day.

"All that wasted energy is creating an opportunity for Verdiem, a tiny Seattle software start-up that helps companies, schools and government agencies cut power consumption on their personal computers..."

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