Many Climate Savers Computing members are actively involved in research around green computing and sustainable IT issues. The following reports were sponsored by one or more Climate Savers Computing member companies.

Research: Climate Savers Computing Initiative – 2010 Progress Report

Research: 1E – PC Energy Report 2007
Research: Hewlett Packard – Go Green PC

Learn best practices for deploying aggressive power management across your entire organization. The following case studies outline steps companies are taking to save money with computer power management.

Case Study: Faronics – Faronics Power Save and ADT Fire & Security

Case Study: Verismic – Harnessing the Power of Change Across One Community

Case Study: Verismic – PC Power Management on a Global Scale

Case Study: Energy Star – Energy Savings from Energy Star-Qualified Servers

Video Case Study: National Instruments – Power Management Implementation

Case Study: EDS – Power Management Implementation

Case Study: Verizon – A “Greener” Solution

Case Study: Dell – Energy Efficiency

Case Study: 1E – UK Government

Case Study: 1E – Peterborough City Council

Although power management can be standard to implement on individual desktop and notebook computers, adopting power management across an enterprise computer system requires a more thoughtful approach. These papers address power management solutions and strategies for the enterprise, its associated benefits and how to make power management more efficient.

Paper: U.S. EPA ENERGY STAR – Activating PM in Enterprises
Paper: U.S. EPA ENERGY STAR – Implementation for Enterprises
Paper: Intel – Save Energy, Increase Productivity
Paper: Microsoft – Saving Costs and Energy
Paper: Microsoft – Sustainable IT Success Guide
Paper: 1E – PC Energy Report 2009

The Energy Efficient Networking white paper from Broadcom builds upon the requirements of the standard by adding control policy as well as hardware and software subsystems in a standards-friendly way.

The Networks Go GrEEN white paper looks at energy efficiency in the data center.

The Power Management in Windows 7 Overview white paper from Microsoft outlines updates to power management in Windows 7.

The Climate Savers Computing white paper provides a program overview, detailed technical specifications and answers to frequently asked questions.

The CSCI Power Management System Design Guide addresses specific reliability challenges of sleep state standby (S3) technology and offers instructions on how to build energy-efficient, power-managed client platforms.

The Drive Toward Energy-Efficient Computing through AC DC Power Supply white paper focuses on the AC DC power supply as an item identified as an area where big, near-term improvements can be made in energy-efficient computing.

The Motherboard Power Efficiency Measurement Process white paper outlines how manufacturers can start measuring the efficiency of the computers they build.

The Building a Long-term Strategy for IT Sustainability white paper from Intel analyzes the business case for IT sustainability.