FatCow using thin energy supply

FatCow, a webhosting provider, announced yesterday that it has bought wind generated energy certificates from Community Energy to help reduce the amount of electricity that it currently needs to run data centres and offices.

The company plans to purchase 4,412,000KWHS of wind generated RECs each year with a volume that is equitable to the output of one wind turbine over an entire 12 months.

Compared to the energy costs from the national electric grid, the environmental benefit is large, as the wind power energy will reduce the amount of carbon dioxide emitted into the ozone by about 2,260 metric tons each year.

Since RECs are renewable energy sources that can continue to save developers and businesses money in energy costs each year.

The hope is that more developers will consider using RECs in the future and make the first financial investment.

Some critics say that RECs are only being utilised by companies so that they can avoid having to reduce their own carbon emissions and still reap the benefits of looking like a green friendly company.

Yet others debate the claim saying that even if RECs are not the best way to reduce carbon emissions, at least they are a step in the correct direction and show that a company is taking steps towards a better ecological footprint with the current resources.

FatCow’s marketing manager, Paul Bukhovko, said that its employers and customers were a large reason why they decided to go green and choose to use RECs, due to the fact that the staff make efforts to be environmentally friendly inside and out of the office.

Since the company knew that customers also felt the same way, it only seemed responsible to offer a solution where the company and its product use less of a carbon footprint.

Tags: data centres, FatCow energy supply, generated energy certificates

Category: Datacenters