My comments: Isn’t this plan a dilly? Clinton intends to reduce energy systems the in the world that are not renewable energy systems. In the United States that would leave us with about only 5% of our existing energy systems.

 Below is his clarion call:

Data Center Power Reduction Plan, 2006

Commitment By

RampRate

Commitment Details

·                                 Anticipated Launch September 25, 2006 ·                                 Commitment Duration Indefinite ·                                 Geographic Region Global ·                                 Geographic Scope Global

To reduce investment in non-renewable energy sources for corporate data centers by $10 million or more over the next year. This is equivalent to approximately 100 million fewer kilowatt hours and a reduction of:

 * 152 million pounds in CO2 emissions;
* 800 thousand pounds of SO2 emissions and
* 490 thousand pounds of nitrogen oxide emissions.

RampRate will track the investments made under its guidance relative to industry averages and identify the movement of cash away from non-renewable energy. These cash savings will then be translated into kilowatt hours based on US average pricing, and into greenhouse emissions based on conversion rates reflecting US average efficiency from typically used power sources.

Progress Updates

• Analyzed processor utilization in a distributed computing initiative of a major financial services provider. Uncovered highly inefficient CPU use, with vast majority of processors running at 0%-20% of maximum (and wasting energy on all the peripherals during low-use periods).

• Audited data center expenditures, including power, at a Fortune 100 high-tech company. Identified misaligned incentives for internal business units that encouraged excessive use of power relative to space and received buy-in for a remediation plan from top management.

• Identified significant deficiencies in data center design for major financial services firm using over 400 million kilowatt hours annually. Low density data centers and underutilized UPS/cooling systems are estimated to have remediable inefficiencies of as much as 10% of the total power usage.

• Spoke to head of green initiatives at a Fortune 100 financial services client and in process of scoping the resulting optimization project with data center staff.

• Introduced energy sustainability as a potential factor in site selection for location-independent projects.

• Assigned oversight of the CGI commitment internally and are hiring an external consultant to accelerate advancement. Also starting to create a formal research framework and gap analysis on what RampRate needs to learn in order to relate sustainable power sources to data center placement.
September – December 2006:

Background

RampRate will advise environmentally conscious clients on data center strategies that will allow them to reduce reliance on non-renewable energy. This will include the following strategies:

.Point of Contact

Tony Greenberg, Chief Executive Officer, RampRate
Alex Veytsel
Michael Hoch, Chief Strategy Officer

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Here is a good one. Solar panels providing lighting  for night school? Maybe the sun shines at night in Ethiopia. It does not shine at night in California. Ethiopia has very little electric energy and solar will not make a drop in the bucket for their energy. One large nuclear plant would supply enough electric energy for the entire country. 

On July 31, President Clinton visited the rural community of Rema, the first “solar village” in Ethiopia. After making a Commitment to Action at the Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting in 2006, the Solar Energy Foundation (SEF) and Good Energies, Inc. installed 1,100 solar panels in Rema, generating electricity for more than 5,500 people. Access to electricity has made night school and refrigerated medicine possible and has improved villagers’ eyesight. “Renewable energy is the economic opportunity of this century,” said Marcel Brenninkmeijer, chairman of Good Energies.

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