Join with Emerson Network Power, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Energy in our efforts to develop a meaningful national database on data center energy performance.

Energy Star for Data Centers Mission:
The EPA’s mission is to develop and implement a data collection energy strategy that will benefit everyone involved by defining a range of criteria applicable to an Energy Star performance level for data centers. Emerson Network Power is proud to support and participate in this program.

Who Should Participate:
Anyone interested in improving the energy efficiency of the IT equipment, data center infrastructure, and operations is strongly encouraged to develop the necessary reporting mechanisms to participate.

What In This For You:
Involvement by a large number of data centers is critical to this program. Advantages of participating in this program include:

• Exclusive access to EPA data
• Ability to benchmark your company against others in your industry
• Learn how to better manage our data center energy consumption and make more informed energy use decisions.
• Earn a solid return on your time investment, in some cases leading to a 50% or greater reduction in total power consumption within your data center.

Next Step:
Download and complete the Participant Expression of Interest Form and return it to ENERGYSTARdatacenters no later then June 1, 2008. Or Request Liebert Assistance if you need help getting started.

Request Assistance
Emerson Network Power is available to assist you in developing data collection processes and procedures. In addition, our Energy Usage Assessment services may identify simple energy saving strategies than can easily be deployed today.

Data Collection, Monitoring & Reporting Policies - Request assistance with participation in the EPA Energy Star Data Collection process. We will help get you launched with data collection, reporting, monitoring, and reporting policies.

Energy Usage Assessment - Request a Liebert Energy Assessment in addition to data collection & reporting policies, and develop a comprehensive energy policy with actionable strategies to reduce total energy consumption within the data center.

Background
More than 62,000 buildings already measure and track their energy performance using ENERGY Star’s Portfolio Manager on-line tool. These include hotels, groceries, cement, and numerous process and industrial industries. The data is confidential. Merely participating in the program and developing the measuring, monitoring, and reporting policies to track energy consumption often leads to significant energy saving opportunities.

• ENERGY STAR labeled buildings use about 35 percent less energy than average buildings.
• More than 4,000 buildings have earned the ENERGY STAR label for energy efficiency

Energy Star for Data Centers Goals:

• Develop and implement a data center energy collection energy strategy that builds on the existing ENERGY STAR methods and platforms.
• Use a methodology similar to the existing ENERGY STAR 1-100 scale.
• For use with stand-alone data centers or data centers housed within office or other buildings. Minimum size is 1001 square feet and above.
• Solicit participation from as many North American data centers as possible.
• Assess energy performance at the building level to explain how a building performs, not why it performs a certain way.
• Use the information within the data base to define a range of criteria applicable to an Energy Star performance level for data centers
• Much like miles-per-gallon is an efficiency benchmark with cars, an additional goal is to develop a similar benchmark for data center energy efficiency.
• Provide users with information and links to additional resources to aid in their efforts to determine next steps after receiving an energy performance rating for their building.
• Offer the ENERGY STAR label to data centers with a rating of 75 or higher.