Prestwich Business
Call for crackdown on firms wasting energy
2:08pm Wednesday 17th March 2010
A BURY-based IT specialist is calling for the European Parliament to crack down on businesses who flaunt energy saving principles by wasting nearly £6 billion a year.
Award-winning IT conservationist ACR IT Solutions, based at The Pavilions, Heap Bridge. is lobbying North West members of the European Parliament. Managing director Steve Freeman says nearly five million small-to-medium businesses, are estimated to spend £7.2 billion on energy this year.
This embraces computers, servers and data storage facilities and data centres.
But he reckons this could be shaved to £1.3 billion.
He said: “Energy conservation on this business scale should be encouraged by either Government incentives or fines for businesses that ignore their responsibilities.”
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