IBM Saves $43M Turning Green
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It may not be easy being green, but it can certainly pay off, IBM would like you to know. The company says energy saving programs saved it no less than US$43 million in 2011 and it’s on track to double that in 2012.

Big Blue said that conservation projects at more than 364 IBM facilities around the world not only saved on electricity bills, but also conserved 378,000 megawatt-hours of electricity – enough to power almost 34,000 average US homes for a year.

Altogether IBM’s energy conservation projects delivered savings equal to 7.4 percent of the company’s total energy use, executives said.

From 1990 to 2011, IBM claims to have eliminated 5.8 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity consumption and nearly 3.8 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions, and saved the company $442 million.