(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Engineering service firm Bluestone Energy Services (www.bluestoneenergy.com) recently helped a biotech firm to receive incentives from the local utility for achieving energy efficiency measures in its Boston area-based data center, according to a report by DatacenterDynamics.
helped the company optimize the data center in order to qualify for the energy-efficiency rebate, just as it has helped many other data centers around the US accomplish.
Bluestone says it has participated in utility programs for over 18 years. In the ast year alone the company has helped attain over $3 million of incentives for efficiency projects at its customer facilities.
The company also has LEED Accredited Professional engineers on staff and provides LEED certification services for existing buildings.
At the Cambridge-based data center, whose owner wanted to remain anonymous, Bluestone installed new CRAC units that are able to use free cooling.
The company also installed a system of floor trays that increases cooling in specific areas where it is needed, as well as overhead return units, said Adam Fairbanks, Bluestone VP of engineering and business development.
Additonally, Bluestone helped the biotch firm qualify a data center virtualization project for a rebate from local utility, Nstar.
All of the ActiveCool-manufactured floor trays feature a variable-speed fan that distributes air into the nearby rack to increase cooling capacity locally.
These trays take the place of perforated floor tiles where needed and the system can scale up along with the data center.
Meanwhile, the overhead return units use motor fans to distribute air through ductwork from the hot aisles. The system works with the new strategically placed air barriers to increase overall temperature inside the computer room from 67 degrees to 72 degrees Fahrenheit.
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