Electricity consumption burns is a costly affair for a business. It is a cost that no business can avoid but one can definitely use the electricity smartly so that you could do to slow down the manically racing meter. The use of air conditioners burden the cost even more so using ceiling fans instead of air conditioners whenever possible should be encouraged. If air conditioning cannot be avoided then the recommended temperature is at  25° Celsius, which is both comfortable and cost effective. Multi-coating windows help in restrains air escape. Apply weather-strips under doors, win and ducts to avoid air leakage. Multiple coated glazes on glass windows also reduce air conditioning energy usage by about 40 percent.

Having large number of plants with irrigation also helps to reduce heat. Central air conditioning is not advisable as it is a single unit that has to be run for the entire office, respective of selective places where it is required. The power back up system is also important and for a new setup, there are three basic assessments when it comes to buying power backup solutions.

1. It should not disturb critical continuity.
2. It should have scalability.
3. The payback time should be apt in terms of productivity or finances.
 
The generator is often used for the power backup but has many drawbacks. When any electrical equipment starts, it uses current that three times more than what it takes when it has started. Furthermore, irrespective of the load, the consumption power by a generator is constant there is an added cost on employing a person to manage it. Generators emit a lot of carbon, which is unhealthy. The trend off late is shifting from genera¬tors to invertors, and other alternative backup solutions.

Did you know that a computer that is on for 24 hours uses more power than monitor alone? Approximately 40% of energy costs can be cut down if one were to put computers and pe-ripherals like printers and copiers on sleep mode when not in use. Electronic devices, such as battery chargers for laptops, phones, cameras, etc, keep drawing power if plugged in.

Artificial building should be avoided wherever it is possible. Studies have also shown that working in natural light increases productivity and reduce lethargy. If employees fall ill regularly or are not at their productive best, the company actually pays for it through lifecycle costs. A typical thermal design power (TOP) processor in use today is between 80 and 103 watts (91W average). For a price premium, processor manufacturers provide lower voltage versions of their processors that consume on average 30 watts less than standard processors. As with processors, many of the server power supplies in use today are operating at efficiencies below what is currently available. Best-in-class power supplies are available today that deliver efficiency of 90 percent. Use of these power supplies reduces power draw within the data center by 124 kW or 11 percent of the 1127 kW total.

Data centers are sized for peak conditions that may rarely exist. In a typical business data center, daily demand progressively increases from about 5 am to 11 am and then begins to drop again at 5 pm. The inbuilt power management features are disabled because of concerns regarding response time. With this scenario, power management can save an additional 86 kW or eight percent of the non optimized data center load.