I am tackling the energy saving objectives in 2 ways, firstly I have installed ovationinternet.com PC Auto Shutdown software via group policies to all staff and student PC's (564 PC's), student and staff PC's shutdown if idle or logged off at end of the school day, they also attempt another shutdown at 6PM and 9.30PM after night school finishes. This software is on target to save me £16,000 in PC energey costs for the whole year which I can see from the real time reporting package. This software only costs £375 for a 500 PC site license. The second approach is to replace PC's with low energy units like VeryPC broadleaf which has an operating power rating of 40W.
My next target is to connect the data projectors to the data network and schedule power shutdowns using the vendors free management software as teachers just refuse to power them off when they leave the classroom.
