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Third-Party Research Reports
Several third-party organizations have reviewed, validated and quantified SURVEYOR's potential energy savings. Below is a sampling of these reports.
Lawrence Berkeley National Labs
LBNL is the premier resource for data on the energy use of office equipment. A new multi-facility survey published by LBNL in 2004 shows that the problem of efficient energy use in PCs is not getting any better: The number of PCs left running after hours remains high at 60%, and the number of machines using some level of power management technology remains low at 6%.
Lawrence Berkeley Labs Information Technology Resources Page
2001 Report on Electricity Use by Office Equipment in the Commercial Sector
2004 LBNL Multi-Facility Study
Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance
A brief technical paper by Ken Anderson of the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance that summarizes SURVEYOR's savings potential in PC networks, citing recent research.
Savings Methodology for SURVEYOR
U.S. Department of Energy Funded Study on PC Energy Consumption
TIAX carried out a "bottom-up" study to quantify the annual electricity consumption (AEC) of more than thirty types of non-residential office and telecommunications equipment. The Office of Building Technology, State and Community Programs at the U.S. Department of Energy commissioned the study to develop technically-detailed and carefully laid out AEC estimates for the major equipment types to assist in the planning of future research and development, deployment and standards programs.
Energy Consumption by Office and Telecommunications Equipment Volume I, January 2002
Energy Consumption by Office and Telecommunications Equipment Volume II, November 2004
RAND Science and Technology
RAND Science and Technology has released a study that projects a 10% increase in the energy consumption of information and communications technologies in the commercial sector by 2006. The study goes on to project that the year 2021 could see increases as high 100% over current usage, depending on prevailing sociological and political trends.
RAND Science and Technology: Forecasts for Office Equipment Energy Use
A History of Power Management
An Intel document that outlines the development of power management through the ACPI and IAPC standards.
Intel's History of Power Management
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