The Green Grid membership now open to Individuals

The message :

We are pleased to announce a new membership opportunity for individuals to join and contribute to The Green Grid’s valuable work! The Green Grid provides a great way for you to get to know and work with industry experts on IT, facilities, and operation of efficient computing infrastructures.

Individual membership is open to individuals who are passionate about resource efficiency in business computing, saving money, and saving resources. Employees of a TGG member company are already eligible to receive membership rights through their companies so they are not eligible for Individual Memberships. You can check the Members List to see if your company is a member. To learn more, read the press release and visit the Become a Member page to watch the Executive Director’s short video about this new level of membership!

For an annual fee of $400, Individual Members of The Green Grid receive the following benefits:

v One complimentary registration pass for The Green Grid Forum 2012 (a $250 value)

v Admittance to the members-only Web site with exclusive, early access to documents before they are published to the public as well as access to members-only resources at no additional cost

v Participation in committee and work groups, as well as global expansion initiatives

v Participation in all General Meetings of The Green Grid

v Participation in members-only webcasts on technical topics such as technology, market studies, and roadmaps

v Exclusive use of The Green Grid Individual member logo

The Green Grid

Few days back I blogged about Green Cloud .. how Cloud Computing is indirectly promoting Green Computing.

Here is an interesting group of influential members which aim to bring energy efficiency to data centers.

The Green Grid is a non-profit, open industry consortium of end-users, policy-makers, technology providers, facility architects, and utility companies collaborating to improve the resource efficiency of data centers and business computing ecosystems. With more than 175 member companies around the world, The Green Grid seeks to unite global industry efforts, create a common set of metrics, and develop technical resources and educational tools to further its goals.

http://www.thegreengrid.org/

The Outlook for Energy – A view to 2040

Apart from discussing topics related to Enterprise Architecture, Industry specific outlooks and architecture is also something which every CIO or EA should be aware of.

ExxonMobil has recently released their outlook on Energy – a view to 2040. Here are some interesting details:

• Global energy demand will be about 30 percent higher in 2040 compared to 2010.
• In the countries belonging to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) – including countries in North America and Europe – we see energy use remaining essentially flat, even as these countries achieve economic growth and even higher living standards.
• The need for energy to make electricity will remain the single biggest driver of demand. By 2040, electricity generation will account for more than 40 percent of global energy consumption.
• Oil, gas and coal continue to be the most widely used fuels, and have the scale needed to meet global demand, making up about 80 percent of total energy consumption in 2040.
• Gains in efficiency through energy-saving practices and technologies – such as hybrid vehicles and new, high efficiency natural gas power plants – will temper demand growth and curb emissions.
• Global energy-related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions will grow slowly, then level off around 2030.
• Read full report : http://www.exxonmobil.com/Corporate/energy_outlook.aspx
• Read IEA (International Energy Agency) Energy Outlook here : http://www.worldenergyoutlook.org/