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Increase Supermarket Sustainability and Profitability with CoolSave

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Our new grocery incentive program, CoolSave, helps medium to large grocery stores implement energy-saving projects which boost the bottom line and have a big impact for stores operating on razor thin profit margins. CoolSave is open to eligible PG&E customers and offers free consulting services, helpful tools, and generous incentives to achieve energy savings through […]

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Common Energy Savings Opportunities for Data Centers

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Data centers connect our world, but at a massive energy cost. The critical equipment that they house and protect can easily make energy savings sound unimportant, but this type of thinking will miss fantastic cost savings opportunities. High energy consumption, high energy density, and 24/7 cooling loads make data centers gold mines for energy efficiency.

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Reduce Your Data Center Energy Consumption with EC Plug Fan Retrofits

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EC plug fan retrofits are one of the most common and impactful ways that I find to reduce data center energy consumption. This article is meant for data center owners and operators of facilities served by CRACs or CRAHs[1] with constant speed fans. Here are some helpful tools for determining when you should consider a

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Saving Energy in High Efficiency Data Centers

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There is an understandable temptation to overlook highly efficient data centers when searching for energy savings. Maybe you’ve gotten your PUE down to 1.2 so why not just focus all your efforts on facilities that are performing poorly? That may be the case, but I continue to find examples of highly efficient data centers presenting

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