Energy efficiency

Company information

Energy efficiency is an increasingly important issue affecting society and today's global economy. Related to this issue is mounting pressure from consumers, the business community, policy-makers and NGOs to address energy demand and resource conservation.

HP’s position

HP understands and recognizes the significant and growing importance of energy consumption and energy efficiency in terms of impact on the environment, and as part of social responsibility. This recognition is reflected in the design of HP products as well as the way the company does business day to day. HP has a long history of research and innovation, holding internal operations and supply base to high standards, and bringing products to market that help increase energy efficiency and conserve finite energy resources.

Investing in responsible energy use and delivering value to customers is not new to HP. HP has a long history of demonstrating leadership in operational energy efficiency and the company's broad portfolio of energy efficient products and services offer both sustainable growth for large-scale customers and a distinct competitive advantage overall.

HP has:

	•	A Design for Environment (DfE) program (since 1992) including a product steward network
	•	Over 10 years of focus and investment in energy efficiency related programs
	•	A dedicated HP labs power and cooling research team with over 1000 patents
	•	Participated in the Carbon Disclosure Project, the world's largest institutional investor collaboration on the business implications of climate change-for the past four years- demonstrating the company's transparency in disclosing trends in energy use and GHG (Greenhouse gas) emissions

Global citizenship is a key HP corporate objective, encompassing social and environmental goals. Energy efficiency is a key aspect of HP's environmental strategy.

As such, HP supports:

	•	Continued investment in basic research and product engineering collectively aimed at bringing innovative and cost-effective products to market that deliver improved energy efficiency and superior customer Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
	•	Transparency and reporting of GHG and energy performance
	•	A harmonized global approach to energy efficiency standards and/or voluntary agreements, such as the

Energy Star program

	•	The development of standards with scientific support and based on input from industry and other relevant stakeholders
	•	Standards that are performance-based, rather than prescriptive specifications, that take into account a range of factors including life-cycle environmental impacts, product performance, features and cost, future innovation, and that impose only a limited administrative burden

HP's commitment to energy efficiency and innovation is driven by a three-tiered approach, addressing energy reduction at the product, process and societal levels.

HP takes a holistic approach to deliver an energy efficient infrastructure that gives customers a full range of innovative energy saving technologies to reduce TCO and address environmental factors as part of the buying decision.

For consumer and SMB customers HP offers a range of printing and computing products:

	•	Approximately 1000 HP products qualify for Energy Star
	•	Instant on Fusing - this technology saves energy because the printer fuser heats up quickly and avoids the need to maintain power when the machine is idle
	•	All HP computing products (Windows) and monitors ship with “power management” enabled.  Annual emissions of one car is eliminated for every 12 uses for those that make use of power management in their HP computer and monitor

Utility bills can rival the operating cost of IT systems.  HP addresses this issue by providing Enterprise customers with:

	•	Efficient systems: processors, servers, and storage designed to minimize power consumption
	•	Flexible design: a range of infrastructure products to more efficiently power and cool systems resulting in more efficient use of data center space and energy: • Modular Cooling System  -  3x the cooling capacity in a single rack • Virtualization and consolidation expertise • Data center design services • Smart Cooling  -  Smart Cooling thermal assessment services can cut data center energy expenditures by 25 percent
	•	Energy-aware provisioning: to optimize power utilization from rack to data center

	HP's internal operations

In addition to helping customers reduce their costs and GHG emissions by offering more energy efficient products, HP also actively manages the impact of its internal operations.  HP measures and verifies GHG emissions caused by the use of fossil fuels and electricity in HP's internal operations.  Goals for 2006 include conducting energy audits of 53 largest facilities and reducing HP on site GHG emissions by 18 percent.  Energy use and GHG emissions are monitored and reported regularly using international protocols.