Standards Organisations
| # | Web Link |
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| 1 |
 Computers Off Australia The Computers off label is the computer industry's guide to help business, government and individuals quickly and easily identify organisations that are doing their part to reduce their power consumption and in turn reducing their CO2 emissions. |
| 2 |
Energy Star Australia ENERGY STAR is an international standard for energy efficient office equipment including computers, printers and photocopiers, and home electronics such as TVs, audio products and DVD players. |
| 3 |
The Green Grid The Green Grid is a global consortium dedicated to advancing energy efficiency in data centers and business computing ecosystems. In furtherance of its mission, The Green Grid is focused on the following: defining meaningful, user-centric models and metrics; developing standards, measurement methods, processes and new technologies to improve data center performance against the defined metrics; and promoting the adoption of energy efficient standards, processes, measurements and technologies. |
| 4 |
SPEC The Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) is a non-profit corporation formed to establish, maintain and endorse a standardized set of relevant benchmarks that can be applied to the newest generation of high-performance computers. SPEC develops benchmark suites and also reviews and publishes submitted results from our member organizations and other benchmark licensees. In particular relation to Green IT, SPEC has developed a Power specification for measuring energy use of servers. |
| 5 |
Energy Rating Australia In Australia it is currently mandatory to label a number of appliances including washing machines, refrigerators and air conditioners. The Australian Government has created MEPS (Minimum Energy Performance Standards) by which these appliances are governed. In late 2007 they assessed the viability of labelling computing devices for energy standards. Reports are available on this website which provide the results. A formal standard for computing energy labelling regulation has not yet been agreed upon in Australia but this website is the one to watch for changes in this. Additionally they assessed the regulation of close control airconditioners (i.e. for computer rooms) - again no standard has been defined yet. |
