Sun Releases 2007 Corporate Social Responsibility Report (5-Oct-07)
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The report highlights how Sun has reduced both electricity and gas consumption and carbon emissions in their US buildings, the main reason for this being consolidation of data centres. In addition to this Sun has taken a number of other measures to cut energy use, such measures include having buildings cleaned in daylight so to avoid lights being turned on outside working hours, and also replacing light bulbs with lower wattage bulbs.
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Sun Microsystems has released its 2007 Corporate Social Responsibility Report.
According to the report, more than 90 percent of reported GHG emissions from Sun’s operations are from electricity use in its facilities. In total, the report says that Sun reduced electricity consumption in its U.S. buildings by 22 percent, gas consumption by 32 percent, and carbon emissions by 21 percent.
A major reason for the reduction is that by consolidating data centers, Sun reduced its “real estate holdings by more than 15 percent, or 2.6 million square feet in fiscal 2007,” according to the report.
Sun has taken a number of other measures to cut energy use:
- Introduced 27 low-cost or no-cost measures to optimize the operation of facilities, which include having all U.S. buildings cleaned during daylight hours to keep lights off outside working hours. A change Sun expects will save 334 metric tons of CO2 annually.
- Identified 45 projects that will reduce our overall energy costs by 4 percent annually. Replacing light bulbs with lower wattage bulbs at the campus in Menlo Park, California, is projected to save 90,584 kWh of electricity annually.
- Source: Environmental Leader
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