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Date	Title	Files and Links
06/06/2019	Excellence in Design & Operation through Electrical Infrastructure	4 Des & Ops Excllnce_Mr Pritam Goyal.pptx
03/19/2015	Executive Order 13693 -- Planning for Federal Sustainability in the Next Decade Executive Order (E.O.) 13693 mandates for data centers: Ensuring the agency chief information officer promotes data center energy optimization, efficiency, and performance -- Section 3(a)(ii)(A); Install and monitor advanced energy meters in all data ce
09/01/2012	Fact Sheet: Improving Energy Efficiency for Server Rooms and Closets Document outlines the best practices for improving energy efficiency for server rooms and closets. Author(s): Cheung, H.Y., R. Mahdavi, S. Greenberg, R.Brown, B. Tschudi, P. Delforge, and J. Dickerson	SmallServerRoomFactSheet2012.pdf
10/30/2015	Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP) Data Centers Overview of FEMP's data center work including CoE.
07/08/2014	FEMP Dashboard Guide Dashboards help to track energy use, inform decisions for taking corrective action and can be used to track the performance of energy-efficiency improvements once they have been implemented.	FEMP Dashboard Guide -Mahdavi-July 2014.pdf
02/02/2017	FEMP's Covered Product Categories searchable table Federal agencies are required to purchase energy-efficient products.
10/05/2016	FEMP's Energy Efficiency Resources for Data Centers Presentation slides covering the Federal Energy Management Program's data center-related resources. By Dale Sartor at the Data Center Optimization Initiative's Community of Practice meeting, October 2016.	EEDCResources093016.pdf
07/16/2019	Free Cooling to Optimize Operational Expenditure Presentation made during the July 2019 Hyderabad Green Data Center Workshop.	Free Cooling to optimize Operational Expenditure.pdf
04/30/2015	Free-Cooling Calculator Based on environmental factors, and variables related to datacenter cooling infrastructure and IT energy use, this tool calculates potential savings attributable to the use of free cooling. From Green Grid.
07/30/2009	Gaseous and Particulate Contamination Guidelines for Data Centers ASHRAE white paper on data center airborne contamination developed by members of the TC 9.9 committee representing the following IT equipment manufacturers: AMD, Cisco, Cray, Dell, EMC, Hitachi, HP, IBM, Intel, Seagate, SGI, and Sun	ASHRAE_Contamination_Whitepaper_30_July_2009.pdf
01/12/2013	General Recommendations for High Performance Computing Data Center Energy Management Dashboard Display Within the past decade, there has been an increasing focus on improving energy efficiency in High Performance Computing (HPC).	General_Recommendations_for_High_Performance_Computing_Data_Center_Energy_Management_Dashboard_Display.pdf
09/20/2016	Getting Data Center Management Started with Profiler Tools Presentation slides that introduce the Data Center Profiler (DC Pro) Tools available to help data centers estimate Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) without sub-metering.	DCProTools_09202016.pdf
08/19/2019	Getting Started: Identifying and Assessing Energy Efficiency Opportunities in Your Data Center This slide deck was presented at the Energy Exchange 2019 pre-conference workshop "Getting Started: Identifying and Assessing Energy Efficiency Opportunities in Your Data Center" on August 19th, 2019. The workshop covers:	EEx 2019 - Getting Started_ Identifying and Assessing Energy Efficiency Opportunities in Your Data Center_final.pdf
10/01/2020	Getting to "Yes" for Energy Efficiency Implementing a cost-effective energy efficiency project requires passion and a willingness to invest some time and little money. Even if you are the key decisionmaker, making an energy efficiency project happen can be complex. This Guide offers a variet	YesforEnergyEfficiencyGuide_000.pdf
01/13/2020	Global Experiences with HPC Operational Data Measurement, Collection and Analysis As we move into the exascale era, supercomputers grow larger, denser, more heterogeneous, and ever more complex.	Global Experiences with HPC Operational Data Measurement, Collection and Analysis.pdf
08/07/2011	GovEnergy 2011 - Data Center Efficiency Workshop Presentation from the Data Center Efficiency Workshop Data Center Efficiency workshop given at GovEnergy in Cincinnati. Author(s): Sartor, D.	data-center-workshop-2aug11.pdf
02/29/2012	Government Information Technology Executive Council Best Practices for Data Center Energy Efficiency - D.C. 2012 Presentation given to the Government Information Technology Executive Council in Washington, D.C. Author(s): Sartor, D.	gitec-dc-workshop-0212.pdf
02/13/2019	Green DC Initiative of IGBC and LBNL US for Enhanced Energy efficiency In Indian Data centres - Electrical Recommendations	Electrical_Recommendations_ECBC User Guide for DCs_13 Feb19_Mr Pritam Goyal.pdf
10/01/2019	Green Procurement Compilation Tool This green procurement compilation tool helps federal agencies identify green data center equipment and products,
01/13/2019	Grid Accommodation of Dynamic HPC Demand Sudden and short-duration power swings in modern supercomputers can have a challenging impact on the voltage of the adjacent power grids.	Grid Accommodation of Dynamic HPC Demand (1).pdf
12/20/2018	Growth in Data Centers and Recent Advancement in IT Load Presentation from the one day national workshop on “Enhanced Energy Efficiency in Indian Data Centers,” held in July 2018.	CII Workshop_Mumbai July 2018_Vivek (1).pdf
05/01/2013	Guide to Minimizing Compressor-based Cooling in Data Centers Best practice guide part of a series created by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory for the Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP), a program of the U.S. Department of Energy.	dc_compressorguide.pdf
12/01/2013	Guideline for Water and Energy Considerations During Federal Data Center Consolidations Consolidation presents data center owners with opportunities to employ industry energy efficiency best practices to lower both capital and operating costs, while ensuring sustainability through reduced energy and water use.	Consolidation Guidelines_2013.pdf
08/01/2014	Guidelines for Data Center Energy Information Systems The purpose of this document is to provide structured guidance to data center owners, operators, and designers, to empower them with information on how to study, specify and procure data center energy information systems (EIS) for managing the energy ut	Guidelines for Datacenter Measure and Manage-Mahdavi- August 2014.pdf
06/07/2004	Guidelines for Field Data Collection to Benchmark Data Center UPS Efficiency The purpose of this procedure is to provide instructions/guidelines for reporting the efficiency of UPS systems that are installed in data centers.	UPS_Field_Data_2004.pdf