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Firms failing to educate staff on PC shutdown

Report suggests better PC use will cut carbon emissions

Nearly nine out of 10 employees have never been asked to shut down their PC at night, according to a survey by the National Energy Foundation (NEF) and software vendor 1E.

The PC Energy Report also found that one in five office workers left their computers on at night three times a week, wasting more than £100m a year and emitting an extra 700,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere.

‘If all UK businesses shut down their PCs at night, the CO2 saved would deliver 10 per cent of the government’s climate change levy (CCL) targets,’ says the report.

The CCL is a tax on the use of energy in industry. The government hopes it will lead to reductions in emissions of at least 2.5 million tonnes of carbon a year by 2010.

‘A lot of PC users, especially in large organisations, do not shut down their PCs at the end of the day and do not have their hibernation settings turned on,’ said 1E chief executive Sumar Karayi.

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