UK Grid directors posing in front of their new Peugeot iOn electric cars
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — A couple of UK Web hosting providers recently announced via separate press releases their individual green efforts.
Manchester-based UK Grid (www.ukgrid.net) is moving from turbo-charged to re-charged as its directors have traded their company vehicles for electric cars.
Rob Garbutt, Patrick Doyle and John Sweeney have all swapped their existing company vehicles – two Porsches and a Mercedes – for three Peugeot iOn electric cars.
The battery powered iOn cars cost only $1.61 to charge, working out to about $0.02 per mile to run.
UK Grid will also install three charging points at its Manchester Science Parks headquarters which will allow any users of electric cars to charge their vehicles.
The hosting provider also planted trees in 200 acres of woodland in Scotland three years ago in anticipation of its data centre energy consumption in a bid to become carbon neutral.
The company is also in the early stages of building a wind farm in Kirkcudbright in Dumfriesshire, which will provide 12 mega-watts of electricity to The National Grid.
In a separate press release, UK-based hosting provider iomart Hosting (www.iomart.com) announced it is the headline sponsor for this year’s 2011 UK Green IT Awards (www.greenawards.co.uk).
The inaugral event showcases and rewards the technology, tools and solutions as well as the companies and organizations that have contributed to improving the IT industry’s environmental performance over the past 12 months.
The finalists in each category were announced last week, with some winners to be determined by a public vote and the remaining category winners to be selected by a cross industry panel of judges.
The winners will be unveiled at a gala ceremony to be held at London’s Regents Park Zoo on May 19.
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