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BroadLeaf now Energy Saving Recommended
BroadLeaf has become the first desktop PC to gain the Energy Saving Recommended certification on the new 5.0 version of the standard. Version 5.0, which supersedes the previous 4.0 standard on the 1st of March 2010 requires significantly lower power consumptions and reduced standby power expenditure over Energy Star 5.
The following models of BroadLeaf have received the certification to date: BL32-B-E53 BL32-B-E84 BL32-H-E53 And can be found listed at the Energy Saving Trust under "Desktop PCs". To find out more about Energy Saving Recommended products, please click here
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Low Carbon Innovation Network profile VeryPC
VeryPC MD, Peter Hopton has been interviewed by Low Carbon Innovation Network's Tristan Parker for a company profile published by the Network. Peter explains the VeryPC ethos:
it's about reducing that massive carbon footprint of IT which, globally, probably outweighs the carbon footprint of aviation
, as well as giving us some insight into where VeryPC came from, and where it is heading next. To read the article, visit the Low Carbon Innovation Network. -
VeryPC PROVIDES EVOLUTION FUNDING WITH ENERGY EFFICIENT PCs USING CARBON TRUST 0% LOAN
VeryPC saves Evolution Funding £1,800 a year in Big Business Refit upgrade
March 23, 2010, SHEFFIELD. VeryPC, one of the UK’s leading manufacturers of energy efficient desktop computers is one of the first companies to replace PCs with the Big Business Refit, an equipment scrappage scheme run by the Carbon Trust.
The scheme offers UK small and medium-sized businesses between £3,000 to £500,000 in government-funded interest-free loans to help replace older, inefficient equipment. VeryPC is replacing lease finance specialist, Evolution Funding’s old PCs with Energy Saving Recommended Broadleaf™ PCs.
The Carbon Trust energy efficiency loan scheme allows customers to borrow against their calculated energy savings with no interest for up to four years, as long as certain carbon targets are met. The trust will consider projects to replace hardware which will save at least 1.5 tonnes of CO2 emissions per £1,000 borrowed. The loans are designed to pay for themselves over one to four years through direct energy savings, so once the loans are repaid; savings go straight onto the bottom line.
In one of the first IT deals signed through the scheme, Evolution Funding, the lease finance specialists, purchased 11 VeryPC BroadLeaf
Energy Saving Recommended
machines - currently the only computers from any manufacturer to be endorsed by the Energy Saving Trust scheme - as part of an energy efficiency overhaul. The new PCs are expected to save nearly £1,800 a year in energy bills; these savings will pay the loan off within four years. After this point the savings will go directly back onto the bottom line.Jeremy Levine from Evolution Funding said:
We worked with Very PC to successfully obtain a 0% loan of over £5,000 from the Carbon Trust, payable over four years to finance our PC upgrade. The machines were installed swiftly and are already generating energy savings. We expect the energy savings will easily exceed the monthly repayments on the loan so in effect the machines will pay for themselves. It’s a fantastic deal for a business like ours that wants to minimise cost while reducing our carbon footprint
.Very PC is offering a service to help customers estimate possible savings, and assist with the loan application, which could result in new computing equipment paying for itself over the payback period. Peter Hopton, chief executive and founder of VeryPC, said:
We’re passionate believers in energy efficiency and we’re delighted to be one of the first companies to provide replacement desktop computers as part of the Big Business Refit.
IT typically accounts for almost 40% of the energy consumed by a small business* so upgrading to more energy efficient PCs and servers can make a massive difference to a company’s energy usage. Given the current economic landscape, this deal not only provides an easy way for businesses to finance their IT renewal programmes, it also helps radically reduce their energy consumption for longer term savings,
he added.The Big Business Refit was launched by Dragons’ Den star, Theo Paphitis, to promote the £100m scrappage scheme after Carbon Trust research revealed that:
- 52% of British businesses don’t have the cash to upgrade old, inefficient kit.
- 46% are unaware that they can cut energy costs by replacing old equipment.
- 60% of British firms wait until their kit breaks down completely before replacing it.
Our energy efficient ranges of home and business computers are built with smaller, cleaner components to reduce the embedded carbon footprint too. This offer with the Carbon Trust makes it easier than ever for businesses to go green,
added Hopton.Hugh Jones, Director, Solutions at the Carbon Trust, said:
Evolution Funding’s use of a Carbon Trust loan to pay for the installation of their VeryPC Broadleaf systems has created a win – win situation. Evolution Funding has slashed its energy spend without having to spend company cash upfront on the installation. We’d urge all other businesses to check their eligibility for the £100m fund available, and to start saving money now.
*Colin Patterson at Leeds Met.University
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TechnologyWorld09
23rd and 24th November 2009
Ricoh Arena, Coventry
Stand number 6
No sooner are we unpacked up after getting back from GreenIT Expo, than we’re bundling all our wares back into the truck and heading out to TechnologyWorld09 (well, it feels like that anyway). This time we’re manning stand number six and also speaking (13.05, Monday 23rd November ‘Digital Systems KTN - Smart and Green @ Home’). We’ll have our brand new BroadLeaf™ and PecoBOO™ on display again. We’re looking forward to showing potential new resellers just how we can help to keep business thrumming by supplying our high performance energy efficient machines.
TechnologyWorld09 is a fantastic opportunity to meet suppliers within the UK and global IT industry. It brings together the best of UK innovation to carefully selected buyers and potential partners from across the globe to do business via a two day meeting focussed event. Registration can be arranged at the TechnologyWorld09 website.
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Come and see us at Green IT Expo
10th and 11th November 2009
Barbican Exhibition Centre, London
Stand number 1
Things are getting hectic around here at the moment. We’re in the final stages of preparation for our presence at Green IT Expo on the 10th and 11th November, and this year it’s going to be big. We’re on stand number one, a great big space right by the front door and are playing host to the “VeryPC Village” with our partners Ncomputing, Scientia and Doxense. There will be plenty of our latest kit to try out, including BroadLeaf™, PecoBOO™ and GreenHive™. We’ll be there in force, so come along to meet the gang, have a chat and play with the products. It would be great to see you there.
As well as the VeryPC Village, we are also providing hardware for the exhibition’s internet café by partnering up with GreenIT Expo themselves.
Building on last year’s success, Green IT Expo provides a unique chance to get your own IT strategy in order and learn about the significant opportunities emerging from the new wave of sustainable computing. Attendance is free for delegates and can be arranged at the GreenIT Expo website.
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VeryPC launch most sustainable GreenPC yet
We've been manufacturing energy efficient computers for several years now. Our Chief Executive, Peter Hopton, decided that it was time to take the sustainability of our products a step further.
Introducing BroadLeaf™, our latest, and most sustainable desktop PC yet. With an all aluminium chassis, which is manufactured in Hull before the computer itself is built at our headquarters in Sheffield, no PVCs, no BFRs or other toxics, and of course fantastically energy efficient high performance, BroadLeaf™ is one of the most sustainable computers in the world.
BroadLeaf™ will not be available to purchase from VeryPC direct. We will be supplying BroadLeaf™ through our authorised partners and resellers, including Harrogate based CCI distribution. The mutually beneficial alliance comes as CCI Distribution move towards specialising in providing Green technology to the market.
Green IT is growing up. To read more on our latest product, please visit the BroadLeaf™ minisite
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SustainIT give Special Award For Outstanding Contribution To Sustainable IT to VeryPC
Having been nominated in two categories at the SustainIT National eWell-Being Awards: Greening Data Centres and Environmental Innovators, we were quietly confident that we'd walk away with a prize by the end of the evening. What we didn't expect was to be singled out for a special award that SustainIT had kept up their sleeve and not whispered a word of to anyone.
During the normal course of events, we won the Greening Data Centres category and were highly commended in the Environmental Innovators category (this being the category that we won the previous year). Enough to warrant a glass of champagne by any standards, but before the close of the ceremony, our MD Peter Hopton was surprised to hear the announcement that this year there was to be an additional, special award for
Outstanding Contribution To Sustainable IT
, and that the recipients were none other than VeryPC.We're quite amazed to be singled out by SustainIT for this accolade. It's honour enough to be nominated, and even more so to win our category, but this is something else entirely. I'm incredibly proud of the work all the staff at VeryPC are doing, and am sure that this kind of recognition will only spur us all on to providing even better energy efficient GreenPCs and GreenServers for our customers. Along with tonight's other winners and nominees, we've made a start in improving things, but there's still a lot of work for the green IT business community to do.
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VeryPC Nominated for SustainIT Award
Once again VeryPC have successfully reached the finals of the SustainIT National eWell-Being Awards.
VeryPC have been nominated in the Greening Data Centres category of The National eWell-Being Awards 2009 for their Free GreenServer Initiative, which offers medium and large organisations revolutionary servers that increase rack density while reducing energy overheads - for zero capital cost. This nomination is in succession to VeryPC's 2008 victory in the Environmental Innovators category.
The National eWell-Being Awards are designed to promote the tangible benefits that Information and Communication Technologies can bring to society, the economy and to the environment. The Greening Data Centres category is for hardware, software and system application innovations that reduce the direct environmental impact of ICT.
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University of Sheffield Choose VeryPC Supercomputer
VeryPC have just built and installed The University of Sheffield’s latest piece of hardware, an energy efficient supercomputer for The Department of Engineering Materials.
The "Beowulf Cluster Extension" was built from nine VeryPC Janus II GreenServers by the award winning technology company at their environmentally friendly factory in Sheffield. To get an idea of the performance of this custom made machine, consider what’s doing the work inside. Each Janus II GreenServer holds two server nodes, each with two quad core processors running at 2.5 GHz per core. With the nine GreenServers working together, this adds up to an impressive amount of processing power. It’s this kind of capability that makes the research of Alex Goncharov at The University of Sheffield possible, he says:
The computational demands made by the research of The Department of Engineering Materials mean we need an extraordinary amount of processing performance. Large scale simulations of the properties of materials at the molecular level can only be practically achieved with a supercomputer like The Beowulf Cluster Extension.
Alex Goncharov: Post Doctoral Research Associate – Electro CeramicsAs a graduate of The University of Sheffield in Electronic Engineering, the installation of his company’s equipment has particular significance for the MD of VeryPC, Peter Hopton:
The University of Sheffield is a world class academic institution, and it gives me great pleasure to know that a VeryPC built supercomputer is being used at the forefront of scientific research by The Department of Engineering Materials.
Peter Hopton: Managing Director of VeryPC
VeryPC Ltd is a registered producer under the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Regulations 2009. VeryPC's WEEE registration number is WEE/BE0198VR. Click here for more info about recycling your old IT equipment.
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