Washington, D.C. (PRWEB) June 27, 2013
Federal agencies could achieve considerable savings of energy and income via expanded use of data and communication technologies, according to a new report released nowadays by the Center for Climate and Power Solutions (C2ES).

If broadly deployed, information and communication technologies (ICT) could assist agencies meet half of their goals for cutting greenhouse gas emissions and could save far more than $ 5 billion in power expenses via 2020, C2ES estimated. These technologies consist of sophisticated power sensors and controls, GPS-primarily based fleet management systems, teleconferencing, and cloud-based information storage.

The new C2ES report, Top by Instance two.: How Info and Communication Technologies Support Attain Federal Sustainability Goals, documents how the adoption of these technologies is assisting federal agencies decrease expenses and emissions. It also recommends actions agencies can take to overcome barriers to their expanded use.

As President Obama emphasized in his new climate action program, the federal government has each the chance and responsibility to lead by instance in moving us in a much more sustainable path, said C2ES President Eileen Claussen. Smarter use of information and communication technologies is one particular very good way the nations largest landlord, fleet operator, and customer of goods and services can each shrink its carbon footprint and save taxpayers income.

Federal agencies have an overall purpose of decreasing their direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions 24 % beneath 2008 levels by 2020. Via 2011, the government had decreased total covered emissions virtually 7 percent, mainly via power efficiency and purchases of renewable energy.

Agencies could go significantly further by taking advantage of such ICT options as: