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Lightening Talks

•  5 Slides per project •  Speak for two and a half minutes

•  Slides on screen for 30 seconds each •  Slides automa<cally advance

•  You’ll know when it’s <me to go!

Virtually Sustainable Peter James and Lisa Hopkinson SusteIT, University of Bradford

Videoconferencing (VC) and other virtual meeEng technologies as a means of reducing travel-‐related energy and carbon Builds on 15 years previous research

CollaboraEon with WVN

Surveys Surveys in 5-‐10 universi<es on staff use of virtual mee<ng technologies – quan<fy travel impacts Survey of university travel managers from over 40 universi<es and colleges

Survey of JANET VC users

Virtual Events Conferencing, Edinburgh, Aug 2010

The V-‐Factor, 4 Welsh sites, Feb 2011 (with Welsh Video Network)

E-‐learning best pracEce, Bradford, April 2011

Cases & Briefing Papers Coleg Meirion-‐Dwyfor/Llandrillo -‐ un<l recently ~25% of all the UK-‐wide calls handled by the JANET VC Service.

University of Bedfordshire -‐ uses VC to reduce travel and improve communica<on between 5 campuses.

Glenda Davies

John Wells

Final Report Provisional UK conclusions: Considerable use, but JANET a minority

Hunger for more

Key barriers – ease of use, informa<on, technology focused support

Carbon Management Plan

JISC Greening ICT Programme (Phase II)

Computer Room Efficiency Improvement

Carbon Management Plan Background

•  Our Computer rooms (Data Centres), host around 2,500 servers

•  They support; Imperial College, Natural History Museum, Royal College of Music and Janet-‐LMN

•  This project focuses on our primary Data Centre (two main rooms), housed in a tradiEonal 1960’s building

•  Annual consumpEon is circa:

7,500,000 kWh £500,000 4,000 tCO2

•  Room One PUE = 1.32 Room Two PUE = 1.52

•  Target 5% reducEon in PUE

Carbon Management Plan Project Approach

•  Phase 1 – DefiniEon, modelling & recommendaEons –  Document current baseline

–  Use of thermal imaging and data logging

–  Model potenEal soluEons and make recommendaEons

•  Phase 2 – ImplementaEon recommendaEons & measure effecEveness –  AnEcipated implementaEons include

•  Cold aisle containment

•  Free cooling •  Elevated computer room temperatures etc

•  UPS usage review and re-‐deploy –  Measure effecEveness of improvements

•  Phase 3 – ReporEng & disseminaEon –  Document analysis of outcomes and place in public domain

Carbon Management Plan Data Centre Photos

Present Cold Aisle Containment High density CO2 Cooling

Extend Cold Aisle containment (further 56 racks)

Low Ceilings: Challenge to Return Hot Air to CRACs

Free Air Cooling Option: Supplement Existing Chilled Water

SusTEACH: Sustainable Tools for the Environmental Appraisal of the Carbon impacts of

Higher Educa<on teaching models using ICTs.

Professor Andy Lane and Dr Sally Caird

HE teaching systems use energy in a variety of ways

How can ICTs reduce energy use in HE alongside other factors?

Developing a toolkit for helping reduce energy use

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CUSTOMER

STudents

Optimisation and Management Energy Resources

DUALL DeliberaEve approach to the living lab

Dr Richard Bull and team.

March 7th, 2011

Aims: •  To understand the role of ICT in reducing energy consump<on of a

large scale public building through the design of an ICT interface connec<ng building users to their electricity consump<on.

ObjecEves: •  To design and test an ICT tool connec<ng building users to their

energy consump<on.

•  To engage in an innova<ve, delibera<ve upstream approach in the design of the applica<on.

•  To understand the extent to which building users can impact the performance of the environment they are in.

•  To understand the impact of ICT interfaces on user behaviour

Baseline Evalua<on & Switch off

Delibera<on/Engagement with users

Cool IT

PROCO2 Re-‐engineering procurement (PRO) Reducing carbon dioxide emissions (CO2) and enabling

sustainability

Dr. Richard Bull & team.

March 7th, 2011

DE MONFORT UNIVERSITY World-‐class university situated in Leicester, with more than 18,000 students and 3,000 staff, five facul<es offering around 400 courses and an annual turnover in the region: £132.5 million

INSTITUTE OF ENERGY AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Leading research ins<tute conduc<ng innova<ve and groundbreaking research into renewable energy, sustainable development and public engagement

ARUP

Mul<disciplinary, engineering, design, planning and environmental consultancy. Widespread experience on scope 3 emissions analysis, stakeholder engagement and change management

DMU Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Sector and by Scope (2008/09)

Aim: To develop an ICT based decision making tool to enable DMU to reduce scope 3 emissions, notably procurement

Objec<ves: –  Link financial and environmental accoun<ng for procurement in the ICT tool

and database

–  Increase awareness on the environmental impacts of purchasing goods/services and support decision-‐making towards sustainable procurement

–  Understand issues of organiza<onal learning and ins<tu<onal change. –  Contribute to the financial and environmental sustainability and resilience of

the organiza<on through reducing procurement spend and their associated GHG emissions by reducing consump<on.

U-‐CARE: UniversiEes’ CollaboraEve Approach to Reducing Energy

A collaboration between IT Services and Estates Services

An investigation into excess energy consumed to regulate the temperature in:

• Lab environments

• Server rooms

U-‐CARE Aim

•  Occupancy levels

•  Machine usage

Currently, overshoots in energy usage are common due to heating/cooling triggers being based on thresholds

Reduce energy usage and carbon emissions generated by ICT and users of ICT in specific environments by programming heating controls based on:

U-‐CARE Methodology 3 main work packages:

WP1: Establish benchmark energy consump<on levels, (before and awer technical development)

WP2: Monitor facility usage, occupancy levels and user sa<sfac<on

WP3: Develop a sowware applica<on in line with requirements (trended and analysed data etc)

U-‐CARE Outputs/Deliverables •  Sowware applica<on capable of interopera<ng with hea<ng/

cooling system to reduce overshoots in energy usage •  Open source sowware where possible •  Scalable solu<on across Strathclyde’s estate •  Transferable to other ins<tu<ons?

•  Suppor<ng informa<on, FAQ, installa<on guide

•  Reports •  Metering and monitoring data •  Evalua<on of outcomes including energy and cost savings, changes in user sa<sfac<on levels

•  Feasibility of informing building usage op<misa<on and mobile phone applica<on development

U-‐CARE Date of comple<on: 30th June 2012

Contact: [email protected] [email protected]

Tel: 0141 548 4753

Green ICT in London HEIs Baseline study of pan-‐London Green ICT issues

• 19 of 42 publicly funded London HEIs

• Suste-‐IT carbon footprin<ng toolkit

• Case studies of best prac<ce

• Explore work outside of HE sector

• Recommenda<ons on funding priori<es

• Officers

Why?

•  Changing aztudes towards energy consump<on

•  Cut energy bills •  Reduce impact on the environment

Building on Greening Events 1

Greening Events II

Stakeholder Engagement

Baseline ‘scope 3’ data

Toolkit Produc<on

Culture Change

Measuring Data Centre Efficiency

Colin Paznson, Roland Cross Leeds Metropolitan University

OOPS! A perfect example of the difference between precision and accuracy. The grid reference … is precise to within 10m however its accuracy is somewhat limited! TL9137 9726 is near the village of Thompson in Norfolk. Even allowing for the typo on the sheet letters it would be about 74m out. If the sign had said “somewhere in Essex” it would have been accurate but not precise

•  Inverness College – Longman Campus –  Limited life building – five years max before move to new out-‐of-‐town

campus –  Largest of the three sites – most poten<al to use recovered energy ? –  Urban 1960’s style technical college and now a UHI datacentre

Sites

•  UHI – Ness Walk building o  HQ building – under 100 occupants

o  Original UHI datacentre – largest potential source of recoverable energy ?

o  Three heating plants (one per floor)

o  Basic design: 1802 listed building shell, refurbished 2005

•  Lews Castle College – Stornoway campus o  Small semi-rural further education college o  Basic design: several standalone buildings from 1960’s to present day o  IT energy use planned to shrink and move away to main UHI datacentres

•  Perth College – Brahan Building, Crieff Road Campus o  Longer planned life building, with no recent flooding o  Largest of the three sites – most potential to use recovered energy ?

o  Urban 1960’s style building will be a UHI datacentre

Heat and Light by Timetable

Colin Paznson, Roland Cross, Mark Warner, Jim Fisher

Leeds Metropolitan University

P A W S

What is it?

How long is the project?

External institutions involved

What’s PAWS?

Why PAWS?

Commercial Products

Free products

Customise it to our requirements

Goals?

Open Source

Institutional benefits

View our blog at http://paws.aber.ac.uk

Build on Previous Green ICT Projects

Contact: Rob Johnson, [email protected]

Help meet CO2 reduction aspirations

The Growth of Unstructured Data

How much Power do Idle Disks Consume?

  NB: These disk arrays do not have “spin-‐down” features.

File Modifica<on Dates

How much Energy can we Save?

Helping people to demonstrate savings

  StorC (Storage Calculator)   Web-‐based modelling tool

  For:   Engineers   Decision Makers   IT Managers

  Shibbolized to simplify returning to previous work.

Open to Change

Open data + social capital = altruistic punishment

Do we believe this kind of graphic will persuade people to act?

Will this make it better?

What do individuals need to feel comfortable in doing their bit?

1. To believe others in their groups are contributing 2. To believe the contribution is meaningful in the real world

in other words:

•  To feel confident a few people are not cheating the system •  At least not enough to mean net energy consumption

continues to rise

Towards altruistic punishment by

University of Oxford: •  David Balch •  David White •  Howard Noble •  Ken Kahn

De Montfort University: •  Richard Hall •  Richard Bull

Lincoln University: •  Joss Winn

Greenview

Dr. Richard Bull & Prof. Mar<n Rieser

March 7th, 2011

DE MONFORT UNIVERSITY World-‐class university situated in Leicester, with more than 18,000 students and 3,000 staff, five facul<es offering around 400 courses and an annual turnover in the region: £132.5 million

INSTITUTE OF ENERGY AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Leading research ins<tute conduc<ng innova<ve and groundbreaking research into renewable energy, sustainable development and public engagement

INSTITUTE OF CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES The Ins<tute Of Crea<ve Technologies (IOCT) is a unique research environment which sits at the intersec<on of science and

technology, the arts and the humani<es.

Aim: To design a smart phone and web based applica<on enabling building users to understand the energy consump<on of the buildings across DMU.

Objec<ves: •  To help the extent building users impact the

performance of the environment they are in. •  To further understand the poten<al of

augmented reality tools to engage individuals in behaviour change ini<a<ves.

The principle idea is to reveal the level of energy varia5ons in near real 5me in precise university building loca5ons using augmented reality tools on common smartphones.

Empedia and Augmented Reality

The Empedia (www.empedia.info) platform has been developed under a KTP agreement between De Montfort and Cuttlefish Multimedia for iphone and Android platforms It will be enhanced with an Augmented reality browser for Greenview applications

Nicola Hogan, Project Manager JISC funded SUSTE-‐TECH project examining Sustainable ICT in UK FHE’s

Recruited 16 ins<tu<ons, mix of FE and HE, from Y&H, SW and SWa. Each submibed a completed Suste–IT Tool and/or an Ac<on Plan: Results of which indicated :

•  Servers , PC’s and Networks are the main consumers of ICT related energy.

Followed by Imaging, HPC, and VC equipment

RECSO -‐ Responsible Energy Costs in IT

David Aaron Thomas & MarEn Bennel Forum for the Future

Stage 1 Report •  Few IT centres or departments pay their own

energy bills or have a good knowledge of what their energy costs are

•  Crea<ng a situa<on where IT func<ons can benefit directly from reduced energy consump<on, either financially or otherwise, is vital if the sector is to develop greener IT

Stage 2 – Target Areas

•  Devolved energy budge<ng •  Shared savings schemes

•  Whole life cos<ng

•  Sub-‐metering

Stage 2 -‐ Outputs •  Guidance documents and case studies (from

within and outside the sector)

•  Working with partner ins<tu<ons to assist ac<on in the target areas

•  Organising events to highlight best prac<ce and develop prac<<oner networks

•  Developing linkages between key stakeholders, such as finance and IT

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Education