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HP recognizes the important role that the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sector will play in enabling carbon dioxide (CO2) reductions across a variety of sectors. We are committed to reducing our own contribution to climate change as well as developing IT solutions that can help lower or reduce the release of greenhouse gases (GHG) such as CO2 into the atmosphere.
Below are just a few of our low carbon solutions for our customers and the successes they have achieved in lowering their footprint.
In most countries, buildings are the largest driver for both energy use and CO
2 equivalent (CO
2e) emissions. The 160 million buildings of the EU, for example, are estimated to use over 40 percent of Europe’s energy and to drive over 40 percent of its carbon dioxide emissions.
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HP’s Intelligent Building Competence Center (IBCC) offers the BuilDog solution for the next generation of fully managed and optimized buildings. BuilDog can intelligently manage a buildings heating and cooling and electricity use as well as security, facilities, inventory, telecommunications and more. Smart management of a building’s utility consumption can result in reductions of 25-35% (in cost) through optimization of the facility as well as resource use and purchase.
Swedwood, a division of IKEA, reduced their energy consumption by 11.3%. In an average manufacturing facility, this would result in an annual emissions savings of 631 tonnes CO
2e
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More case studies.
In an estimate made by HP, the abatement potential due to minimizing overruns of books, magazines and newspapers through digital printing services is on the order of 114 to 251 MM tonnes CO
2e (this estimation includes a rough estimate of the embedded carbon and energy use of the printers as well as the paper production) – at the low end similar to the Smart 2020 report’s estimate for global implementation of automated lighting systems, and at the high end almost as great as the same report’s estimate for a large scale shift to telecommuting. Read HP’s
white paper for details on reducing the greenhouse gas emissions of commercial print with digital on-demand technologies.
For every $1 of printing, there are $5-8 of other costs, including warehousing, distribution and inventory obsolescence. Each of these has an associated energy use and emissions footprint, and each can be reduced through the creation of marketing collateral ‘on-demand’.
Find out more information on HP's Collateral on Demand solutions.
Marketrend eliminates the need to store vast quantities of materials and decreases operational costs through collateral on demand services. Furthermore, collateral on demand gives Marketrend
the ability to rapidly generate material specifically for customer,
minimizing the amount of wasted material - an estimated 30% of material
is thrown away once it is printed using conventional offset printing due
to obsolete information. Collateral on Demand can also have a
significant effect on reducing the amount of wastage and emissions from
storage and transportation.
HP and Amazon are working together to use digital color printing to reduce book publishing overruns. With HP Indigo presses at their fulfillment centers, Amazon can provide unmatched selection of books, including those small-volume and rare.
Find out more information on Marketing Collateral on Demand.
Tools: HP’s Carbon Footprint Calculator for Printing.
HP can deliver end-to-end
Utilities Industry Solutions that will change the industry ‘s landscape through hardware, software, consulting and IT services. With over 65% of the worlds power transmission controlled by HP and its partners,
HP has the experience and proven methodologies to plan, design, build and test utility projects.
Learn how British Energy, the United Kingdom’s largest producer of electricity and the lowers carbon emitter of the major UK electricity generators, uses HP technology to increase efficiency and streamline their business.
Telepresence solutions have the potential to dramatically reduce business travel for one-on-one and small group meetings significantly reducing carbon emissions while maintaining effectiveness and quality as well as producing substantial cost savings.
HP Halo Telepresence and Video Conferencing solutions create a lifelike encounter that can replace the need for emissions heavy and expensive business travel.
We’re working on making an assessment of embodied carbon; find more information
here.
Business travel has been reduced by roughly 43 percent in some HP business groups by using
Halo systems.
Between April 2007 and March 2009, HP Halo studios at both HP and customer facilities have saved over 66,000 metric tons CO2e.
This is equivalent to 880 tanker trucks worth of gasoline or 12,000 U.S. passenger vehicles off the road for one year3.
Office printing represents a significant area for energy and paper reductions through managed print services.
HP Managed Print Services helps companies streamline and minimize the cost of office printing through a complete hardware and service offering. Assessment, implementation and management services leverage
HP’s expertise in reducing energy and paper waste in offices.
In addition to paper savings, an optimized printing infrastructure can yield substantial energy savings – we have observed 30% to 80% reductions with some HP Managed Print Services customers4. Furthermore, managed print services reduce the number of printers and replaces less efficient printers with newer high-efficiency models. This is especially relevant as HP printing products become more efficient,
and by 2011, HP has a goal of improving the overall energy efficiency of high volume Inkjet and Laserjet printers by 40% relative to 20055.
Ready to evaluate your own printers? Check out HP's Carbon Footprint Calculator for Printing tool.
Viacom slashed their energy use for printing with HP’s managed print services by 62.5%.
Swiss Post reduced their 17,000 printers to 6,000 and from 140 models to just six.
GES Exposition Services trimmed their fleet of printers and realized an actual savings of 31.8%.
More case studies.
HP Critical Facilities Services align IT and critical facilities requirements to create optimized data centers that maximize energy efficiency while meeting performance requirements.
HP does this through subject matter specialists that are responsible for the implementation of Moving Towards Sustainability, and our Energy and Sustainability program, which is focused on research, development of proprietary assessment tools and implementation of sustainable, energy-efficient and environmentally responsible design strategies for data centers and other high-performance building types. HP has designed and commissioned over 50 million square feet of raised-floor environments.
Get more information
here on our EYP MCF teams who deliver HP Critical Services.
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Smart consolidation, managed services and facility design can reduce the power and cooling demands by 10% to 45%6.
HP has put efficient data center design to work
in our own facilities. In one application alone, virtualization and consolidation reduced our server power consumption from 5 million kWh to 1.8 million kWh. Using the worldwide standard 0.51 kgCO
2/kWh, this is an annual reduction of 1632 metric tons CO
2e.
Power management services can also lead to significant energy and emissions reductions for large corporations. As an example, EDS (an HP company) incorporated power management in over 90,000 computers resulting in an estimated reduction of 3,048 tonnes of CO2e7.
Syngenta uses fewer servers than in the past, so it also uses less power, cutting the company’s energy costs.
- HP’s Low Carbon IT Solutions white paper.
- An average manufacturing facility may consume 2 MW and could operate 5475 hrs/yr (15 hrs/day, 365 days/yr). An 11.3% reduction in this type of facility would result in an annual emission savings of 631 tonnes CO2e (using the worldwide average of 0.51 kg CO2e/kWh). Energy savings includes the IT infrastructure.
- Methodology: HP Halo studios were used for a total of 263,000 hours between April 2007 and March 2009. This interval covers a time period of early and incremental adoption of Halo rooms, thus the calculated CO2 saved is a conservative estimate. Assuming 35% of meetings avoid travel (depending on the company's travel and meeting policy), and 1.4 person avoid travelling per meeting, as meetings frequently require travel for more than one participant, this corresponds to 99,180 trips avoided over two years. With an average of 1,609 miles per round-trip (average of short, medium and long haul business trips at HP), and a CO2 footprint per mile of 199g CO2e.(http://www.cleanairconservancy.org
) this results in a net emissions savings of 63,554 metric tons CO2e.
Each avoided trip also saves CO2 from car travel (to/from airport at both ends), resulting in an additional 3,483 metric tons CO2e saving on average.
In addition, HP Halo studios were responsible for approximately 675 metric tons CO2e from electricity use over that time period (based on a global average of 0.510kg/kWh).
The net total CO2 emissions savings from all HP Halo studios over this two-year time period was therefore 66,362 metric tons CO2e.
- Reducing the Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Commercial Print with Digital Technologies
white paper.
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HP Global Citizenship Report.
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HP Services for Data Center Transformation brochure
- This calculation is an EDS case study.
