Mar, 2009 : RagingWire Given $150,000 For Green Practices

📅 March 26, 2009 - Northern California colocation and hosting provider RagingWire Enterprise Solutions (ragingwire.com 👉 Total Reviews: 1
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In addition to RagingWire's already environmentally friendly design, according to RagingWire's announcement this week, the rebate was also the result of efforts including installing waterside economizers, over-sized cooling towers, variable speed pumps, and highly efficient chillers. This past year's efforts alone have created additional energy savings of more than 2,000,000 kWh of electricity per year, saving 1.6 million pounds of carbon dioxide from being released into the atmosphere, equivalent to a family car taking more than 100 trips around the circumference of the Earth.

"[B]y being a partner in SMUD's Saving by Design program, RagingWire implemented energy efficiency measures that are good for our environment, good for their business and will help SMUD achieve our ambitious energy reduction goals,"Program Manager for SMUD's Savings By Design, Steve Oliver said in a statement.

As SMUD's largest single building customer and one of its top 10 customers overall, RagingWire has developed a strategic working partnership with SMUD by incorporating energy saving technologies. Moreover, industry estimates demonstrate that using outsourced data centers is highly efficient, and can result in overall power reductions of up to 50 percent.

Being awarded this incentive rebate is a significant achievement for RagingWire, according to George Macricostas, who is RagingWire's CEO and Vice Chairman, as well as a board member of the Jane Goodall Institute. "Social and environmental responsibility is in RagingWire's DNA," Macricostas said in a statement. "From the inception of our design, we knew that investing up front in environmentally responsible technologies was the right thing to do, and we have enjoyed those benefits for over eight years. It was right not only for the long term operational efficiency of our business, but more importantly it was the responsible decision for our community, and for generations to come."

RagingWire is using its knowledge and experience gained by working with SMUD when it expands its operations with a new LEED certified 200,000 square foot data center.

In July 2008, RagingWire launched a program to give customers the option of using 100 percent green power from renewable sources to power their high density equipment through a partnership with SMUD to offer customers clean power from renewable energy sources, priced at one additional one cent per kWh.