Sentilla Blog

A lot of green announcements have come down the wire this week, from IBM's "smart everything" to Cisco "EnergyWise" to Google's PowerMeter. With a number of emails questioning how the Google system works, I thought I'd explain it a bit.

Public Radio is taking a look at the future of energy, with a week long "Power Trip" around the country to find innovative technologies. John Hockenberry, an Emmy and Peabody award winning correspondent on The Takeaway, stopped by Sentilla to discuss the Sentilla Energy Manager. I gave John a demo of Sentilla's system, and it was exciting to watch the reaction of the producers as we showed them exactly how much all of their equipment consumes (and costs!). John also got a tour of our facility to see how we develop our products.

Sentilla is now a member of a data center energy efficiency consortium, known as The Green Grid. With data centers consuming over 1.5% of the United States' electricity according to the EPA, lots of people are interested in how to reduce demand in the data center. To better understand the task at hand, companies have joined forces to make data centers more efficient.

I'm pleased to see more attention being given to energy reduction, and specifically to energy reduction in data center equipment. An increasing number of announcements, news items and blogs are giving equal time to energy reduction – the lesser known sibling to alternative clean energy sources.