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Verdium offers a PC energy management tool that offers the two-pronged value add needed to be a viable carbon Dioxide reducer: save money, and save energy. That ROI of 18 months is going to have to come down a lot before this product and technology will hit the mainstream.

Verdium's Surveyer product works by using the existing energy management features built into personal computers; it's the low hanging fruit. PC power management offers one of the fastest and easiest ways to reduce a significant percentage of elecricity usage (estimates range from 20%-40% per PC) and money. And MS Windows offers some nice features that are very underutilized.

According to the Verdium website : 'SURVEYOR works by intelligently placing PCs into lower power settings when not in use.' This means, that for an office organization of 1,000 PC's that are are never shut down (user habit, or IT enforced to deliver maintenance and updates during off-hours), the energy habits can be controlled from a central location.

Other products in this space:

• Shutdown Vaccine from Horizon Datasys
• NightWatchman from 1E