Energy Efficiency

How Pico Technology is reducing its energy bills

Tags: development

11/03/08 | by Jeff

| Categories: Temperature

The development area was too warm, so we dropped the target temperature from 22 C to 19 C.

18/02/08 | by Jeff

| Categories: Temperature

We changed the setup of the development area air conditioning.

In the afternoon, we installed an air blower in the plant room to keep the servers cool.

Follow Pico Technology's journey from energy hog to energy saver.

News
- April Fool!
- Energy-saving coating
- The energy-saving project has begun!
- The EnviroMon dynamic web pages are now live
Temperature
- 7-day timers for small heaters
- A graph from EnviroMon
- A misplaced sensor causing erratic temperatures
- Air con current test; redundant fans
- Another poorly insulated room
- Board room temperature sensor
- Development area temperature
- Even buildings have fan belts
- Keeping the servers cool
- Kitchen heater
- More air conditioning changes upstairs
- Production temperature
- Production temperature
- Production temperature again
- Production temperature again
- Temperature sensor moved
- Various adjustments
Lighting
- Another £100 per year saved
- Going down
- How to save 6926 kWh per year
- Saving £1000 per year on lighting
Energy
- Increased consumption
- Latest meter readings
- Meter readings still falling
- Meter readings update
- Meter readings: lower still
- Monitor power usage
- New TFT monitors
- Our bills are going down at last!
- Plug-in energy meters