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April 1st 2010 Data centre provider Telehouse is a large energy user and by teaming up with
EnergyQuote incorporating John Hall Associates has been able to reduce costs and
comply with forthcoming legislation
Telehouse offer data centre
facilities and connectivity,
providing a secure and
resilient platform for mission critical
IT systems for some of the world's
biggest brands.The energy market
has been very unpredictable over
the past few years, with regards to
price and availability.This instability
coincided with a contract transition
phase for Telehouse and required
them to adjust to sudden price
increases, with very little warning.
These factors were really affecting
Telehouse's growing energy needs
brought about by demand from
customers for high-capacity services
to support improvements in
technology.Telehouse is meeting
this demand with the introduction
of its newest facility,Telehouse West.
The data centre offers the same
capacity of Telehouse North and
Telehouse East combined and draws
2KVA of power per rack.
Suzanne Lee, senior manager at
Telehouse said,"The very nature of
the global data centre business is
highly energy dependent.
Ultimately, our energy requirements
are driven by our customer's needs
and demands which in turn are
directly correlated to the power and
cooling required for their IT
equipment. In addition, as a forwardthinking
company,we further build
our requirements around provisions
for the future, in terms of predicted
growth and advancements in
technology."
Lee comments on the market's
evolution over the next few years.
"We feel that the market demand for
energy, although slowed down
recently due to the global recession,
will continue to grow in the longer
term. Even in the current market,
factors from the data centre
industry, such as the emergence of
virtualisation technology and
availability of bespoke solutions,
continue to demand greater power
requirements."
"Due to the energy requirements
involved with running a data centre
we were conscious of the
forthcoming government Carbon
Reduction Commitment Energy
Efficiency Scheme (CRC).As such,we
decided we needed to work with an
experienced energy consultancy to
ensure that we met the requirements
of the legislation,"explained Lee.
When Telehouse's contract with
its existing suppliers came up for
review, the company decided to put
the contract out to tender to several
suppliers and consequently selected
EnergyQuote incorporating John
Hall Associates.
EnergyQuote trades more than
£3billion of energy contracts each
year, it structured all purchasing and
energy strategies for Telehouse to
ensure that purchases adhered to the
company's low risk appetite.By
monitoring the energy market,
Telehouse is able to become more risk
adverse and cost efficient, helping the
company maintain its position as a
financially robust data centre provider.
Working with EnergyQuote,
Telehouse has vastly improved
against its purchasing targets:
energy costs in 2009 dropped to £7
million compared to £11 million the
previous year, a saving of over 36%.
The CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme
EnergyQuote was also able to assist
Telehouse in complying with CRC.
The CRC involvement is an important
focus for Telehouse, and as a
colocation provider, it falls within
their defined criteria to comply.The
company has implemented
numerous initiatives in order to help
it become energy efficient including:
transforming waste heat from
Telehouse West, its newest facility,
to provide up to nine megawatts of
energy to the local neighbourhood.
Effectively, with its CRC policy
Telehouse is a good choice for current
and potential customers when
outsourcing their energy consuming
business areas into its data centre
facilities. Explained Lee:"There are
particular opportunities for customers
on the threshold of being within the
scope for CRC Compliance to
outsource their energy consuming
equipment to a Green Data Centre
such as Telehouse West."
Moving forwards,Telehouse will
be utilising the expert knowledge of
EnergyQuote inc. JHAL to help it
achieve CRC League Table status, as
well as accreditation from The
Carbon Trust. Furthermore the data
centre and managed ICT provider
will continue to pass cost savings on
to its customers as part of its
commitment to provide excellent
customer service.
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