Colorado Business Incentives: Xcel Energy Launches Incentives for IT Managers to Go Green

Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Xcel Energy Launches Incentives for IT Managers to Go Green

Source: GreenerComputing, Published July 13, 2009

"MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. -- Xcel Energy is hoping to lighten the load on its grid by encouraging IT managers to implement energy efficiency programs.

The company's new Data Center Efficiency program, currently available in Minnesota and Colorado, will offer significant incentives to cutting the energy drawn by servers, storage and cooling.

Xcel will pay for up to 75 percent of the cost of a company's data center energy efficiency study, and will refund up to $400 per kilowatt saved by the data center energy efficiency projects implemented by a firm..." [link to remainder of this article]

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