Computer equipment can make up about 5 to 10% of your office energy usage. Follow these simple steps to reduce how much energy your computer equipment uses.
Turn Off:
• Your monitor when you leave for more than 15 minutes.
• Individual printers at night and on weekends.
Avoid Screensavers
Originally used to prevent images from being burned into older monitors, they actually cause newer ones to use more energy by preventing them from going to sleep.
Reduce Brightness and Bump Up Contrast
Dropping brightness to the lowest setting can reduce power usage by up to 50% – just make sure that you can still easily read the screen by boosting contrast!
Disable Bluetooth and AirPort
Save battery power by turning off the wireless Bluetooth and AirPort when not in use and make sure to fully charge and fully discharge your laptop battery once a month.
Enable Energy-Saving Features
Make sure the Energy Star or EPEAT features are turned on. Ask IT staff if you don’t know.
Keep Vents on Your Computer Clean and Unblocked
This keeps the fans that cool your machine working more efficiently and can extend the life of your computer.
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Take Advantage of the Power of Your Network
Many printers and multi-functional devices (combining copying, printing, and scanning functions) are easy to network together so multiple people can use them.
Ask IT Staff
See if backups and updates could be regularly done on the same day of the week, so that computers could be turned off the other days.Virtualize Your Servers
Consider moving your servers to the campus data center, which can reduce the total amount of energy used through virtualization and other actions. Click herefor more information.