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HP can help you transition to ENERGY STAR 5.0

HP can help you transition to ENERGY STAR 5.0
reprinted with permission from HP

emazzanti Technologies - Energystaremazzanti Technologies - Energystar Nearly all current HP business desktops are ENERGY STAR® 4.0 qualified, but those standards will soon change. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will introduce new ENERGY STAR® 5.0 requirements on July 1st, 2009. What’s going to change? What do you have to do to meet the requirements? Relax, it’s easier than you think – HP can give you a head start. Even if you’re a small business or not concerned about compliance, you can still save money on power and cooling by implementing ENERGY STAR 5.0 qualified desktops from HP.

Why were new standards introduced by the EPA?
The ENERGY STAR 5.0 program was designed to drive innovation in improving energy efficiency. 5.0 is also intended to periodically re-set limits so that only 25% of the products in the market will qualify.

ENERGY STAR 5.0
There are two changes from the current ENERGY STAR 4.0 program to the ENERGY STAR 5.0 that will have decided benefits for your organization should you choose to implement the new standards:

1.  High efficiency power supplies option has gone from 80% up to 87% on new products.
2.  Minimum 2GB of memory, up from 1GB.

The difference between ENERGY STAR 4.0 and 5.0
ENERGY STAR 4.0 was concerned with 80% Efficient Power Supply. The current Standard Power Supplies offered for desktop computers range from 65-75% efficiency. ENERGY STAR 5.0 is raising the efficiency percentage to 87%. The higher the efficiency, the more energy a computer saves, the more computers with a higher rating purchased for small business, the more money saved.

When a power supply converts AC power from the wall to the various DC voltages that the computer needs, there is always a loss of power. The power loss varies with how busy the computer is. An 80% efficient power supply is guaranteed to lose less than 20% of the AC power at 20%, 50% and 100% loads.

The lower idle specification plus the 87% efficient power supply together provide big benefits to your business beyond simple compliance:

  • Increased power supply reliability due to greater efficiency
  • Decreased system maintenance due to increased reliability
  • Lower TCO due to reduced maintenance and longer equipment life
  • Improved worker environment with less noise from the PC
  • Potential reduction in cooling bill due to less heat being generated by PCs

HP Business Desktops, ENERGY STAR 5.0 qualified today
There is no grandfathering with the new requirements – as of July 1st, 2009, you’re either ENERGY STAR 5.0 qualified, or you aren’t qualified at all. And even if you’re not worried about compliance, you don’t have to wait to reap the rewards that an ENERGY STAR 5.0 product can bring you.

Select HP 5000, rp5000 and dc7900 series Business Desktops meeting ENERGY STAR 5.0 standards are available right now. You can get a head start on meeting requirements as well as saving. Find out more about HP business desktops that are ENERGY STAR 5.0 qualified:

HP 5000 series Business Desktops
HP dc7900 family Business Desktops
HP rp5700 series Point of Sale System

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