By Justin Lee, theWHIR.com
July 15, 2008 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Data center operator and hosting provider RagingWire (ragingwire.com) announced on Tuesday it has launched a new program designed to give customers the option of using 100 percent green power from renewable sources to power their high density equipment.
“This is an important initiative for RagingWire,” says George Macricostas, CEO and vice chairman of RagingWire. “We have always engineered and built our practices and facilities for resource conservation, operational efficiency, and environmental sustainability. This program invites our clients to join us in these efforts.”
RagingWire provides colocation and managed server hosting solutions. A core service provided by RES at its Enterprise Data Center is delivering high power densities to meet customers’ power-intensive computing requirements.
The company is collaborating with electric utility provider Sacramento Municipal Utility District (smud.org) to offer customers clean power from renewable energy sources.
These green sources of energy include wind, solar, landfill gas and small hydroelectric. The green power option is priced at one additional one cent per kWh.
The web host says it uses only renewable energy through SMUD’s Commercial Greenergy program to power its corporate operations.
RES says it is also aggressively pursuing energy saving strategies. The company has so far saved more than 4,000,000kWh of electricity, which is enough to power about 580 households for a year.
RagingWire and SMUD are also working on a joint project to implement further energy efficiency measures, and hopes to decrease cooling requirements to the RES data center by more than 20 percent.
This is part of RagingWire’s initiative to exceed American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers and Environmental Protection Agency standards, with the goal to achieve a power utilization effectiveness rating below 1.35.
In other green news, IT solutions provider BlackMesh announced last week that e-business solutions developer CommonPlaces selected the company to host its Waste Management-owned collaborative ‘green’ social networking website Greenopolis.com.
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