It’s good to see that the approach outlined by JISC in the latest JISC inform issue agrees with our Green ICT strategy. To quote from the article:

“Essentially it is about providing more granular data on what’s being consumed and where it is being consumed, ultimately to try to identify why it is being consumed, and then to provide something in the system to encourage people to want to do something about it,” 

This backs up our approach of using measurements and informed estimates to populate the SusteIT  spreadsheet. This has then given us the granular data needed to understand where energy is being used in the ICT estate and which priority areas to address. We are now working on the 3 key priority areas of desktops,  networks and servers.    Incentivisation is harder in a a university with a centralized energy bill be we are working on a variety of approaches to ensure that those who control each are of the ICT estate are aware of it’s energy cost and include them in any forward planning.