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02/22/2021	Contracting for Efficiency: A Best Practices Guide for Energy-Efficient Product Procurement Contracting for Efficiency: A Best Practices Guide for Energy-Efficient Product Procurement, provides guidance to agencies with regard t
02/22/2021	ISO 50001 Certification Designed to support organizations in all sectors, ISO 50001 provides a practical way to improve energy use, through the development of an energy management system (EnMS).
02/03/2021	NetApp Case Study COMING SOON!
01/21/2021	Energy Efficiency Toolkit Series: IT Equipment Energy savings at the IT Equipment level cascade through most energy consuming support systems in data centers hence multiplying the energy savings.	Introduction To The New IT Equipment Tool - Saving Energy At The IT Equipment Level - Final.pdf
12/23/2020	2017 ECBC User Guide Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the Confederation of Indian Industry – Indian Green Building Council developed this guide to aid data center developers, suppliers and operators in complying with the Energy Conservation Building Code of 2017.	USER GUIDE FOR IMPLEMENTING ECBC v8_091320_23Dec2020_CII.pdf
12/23/2020	Infosys Bangalore Case Study Infosys intended its Bangalore data center to challenge India’s data center design practices and inspire the enterprise data center industry by demonstrating best-available technology and world-class performance.	Innovation in Energy Efficiency - Infosys Bangalore DC_IGBC&LBNL_2020.pdf
12/23/2020	Half Day Workshop \| August 2020 Materials from the August 2020 virtual Half Day Workshop for the Energy Efficiency in Indian Data Centers Initiative	CII Workshop 2020 Aug_Vivek Rajendran Dell EMC (1).pdf Final Agenda 19 Aug - Workshop on Green Data Centers by IGBC and LBNL US (1).pdf 8Eaton _CII Untapped Potential 19th August_Eaton (1).pdf 1DC workshop - 19 Aug 2020_IGBC - Shivraj Dhaka (1).pdf 5Data Center Sustainability v1_NPCI (1).pdf 3Enhanced Energy Efficiency in Indian Data Centres by_Mr Sinhal (1).pdf
11/09/2020	IT Efficiency Tool IT equipment is at the core of energy consumption in data centers. Energy savings at the IT level will have an impact on essentially all energy use in these facilities.	IT Tool 9-28-2020 - Final Delivery (5).xls IT Tool User Manual 9-29-2020.pdf
10/22/2020	Half Day Workshop \| October 2020 Materials from the October 2020 virtual Half Day Workshop for the Energy Efficiency in Indian Data Centers Initiative.	DraftAgenda_Workshop on Green DCs by IGBC & LBNL_22Oct_v2.03 (1).pdf flyer_speakers.jpg Shivraj Dhaka_Green DCs workshop - 22 Oct 2020 (1).pdf Innovative Cooling Technologies for Densely Occupied Loads in Data Centers.pptx Efficiency through IT Hardware and Software.pdf ECBC Guide_DCD _102220v3 w notes.pptx Case study Infosys Data Center (003) (1).pptx Infosys Case Study Launch Slide Deck.pptx
10/07/2020	Energy Efficiency Toolkit Series: Air Management This webinar provided an overview of cooling air management (AM) in data centers; identification of typical energy-saving opportunities in air management; and selective demonstration of Berkeley Lab's air management tools, including introduction of the	Data Center Toolkit Webinar Series - Air Management (1).pdf
10/02/2020	Air Management Lookup Tables This report presents estimated energy savings for small data center chiller (refrigeration) and fan equipment in a new tabular format for various air management upgrade scenarios.	AM Package Lookup Table Final Guide 6-19-2020.pdf
09/20/2020	Data Center Electrical Power Chain Tool This Excel-based tool helps data center owners identify energy efficiency opportunities in the electrical power chain of a data center (transformers, generators, UPSs, power distribution units), plus lighting.	Power Chain Tool_v2.1 (2).xls
09/02/2020	Energy Efficiency Toolkit Series: Electric Power Supply Slide deck from the second of CoE's four part webinar series.	Power Chain Tool_091020_pub.pdf
08/13/2020	Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Model for Data Centers Data centers are mission-critical components of all large enterprises and frequently cost hundreds of millions of dollars to build, yet few high-level executives understand the true cost of building and operating such facilities.	(TUI3011B)SimpleModelDetermingTrueTCO.pdf
08/13/2020	Data Center Energy Efficiency Investments: Qualitative Evidence from Focus Groups and Interviews This study explores potential barriers to energy-efficiency investments in data centers through focus groups and interviews with data center managers, including split incentives, uncertainty about new technologies, and more.	EE Investments Qualitative Evidence from Focus Groups and Interviews.pdf
08/13/2020	Why your CFO needs to meet your IT department Article on the benefits of involving CFOs in IT decisions.	https://www.greenbiz.com/article/why-your-cfo-needs-meet-your-it-department
08/13/2020	Discovering hidden costs in your data center - a CFO perspective IBM report on what efforts forward-thinking CFOs are doing to properly account for energy costs and more efficiently manage their data centers.	Discovering hidden costs- CFO perspective.pdf
07/13/2020	DCEP Training	DCEP Training Page
07/13/2020	Best Practices for Modernizing Vintage Data Centers This white paper discusses the benefits and challenges of upgrading the data center’s infrastructure components and outlines best practices for successfully planning, implementing and testing those renovations.	Best practices for modernizing vintage data centers.pdf
05/20/2020	Opportunities for ESPCs in Data Centers This webinar, held by the CoE in May 2020, reviewed how energy savings performance contracts (or ESPCs) could be leveraged as a financing mechanism to reduce the barriers for energy efficiency in data centters.	Data Center ESPC Webinar-PPT_0.pdf Webinar Video Recording
04/08/2020	Lessons Learned in Achieving Data Center Efficiency Goals – 3 Case Studies Today, data centers account for roughly 2 percent of the total U.S. electricity use, and national computational demand is expected to grow at a fast pace. Data center energy consumption can be reduced by 20 to	2017_09_11_17_7x24 Exchange_Better Buildings Reyher_Breland_Sartor.pdf
03/23/2020	Recalibrating global data center energy-use estimates Data centers represent the information backbone of an increasingly digitalized world.	Masanet_et_al_Science_2020.full_.pdf
03/19/2020	Electrical Power Chain Tool This Excel-based tool helps data center owners identify energy efficiency opportunities in the electrical power chain of a data center (transformers, generators, UPSs, power distribution units).
02/22/2020	ISO 50001 FAQs FAQs on the practical implementation and benefits associated with ISO 50001 certification.
02/22/2020	EPEAT Registry The EPEAT Registry contains a searchable database of certified data center equipment available for purchase.

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