- 1. Green IT Workshop In partnership with ITAC March 4, 2009
Bill St. Arnaud
2. The Climate Change Threat
- Obamas National Science Advisor John Holdren onGlobal Climate
Disruption
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http://greenmonk.net/john-holdren-on-global-climatic-disruption/
- Stephen Chu new head of DoE Wake up America!!
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http://climateprogress.org/2009/02/04/chu-were-looking-at-a-scenario-where-theres-no-more-agriculture-in-california-part-2/
- USGS Abrupt Climate Change report finds that future climate
shifts have been underestimated and warns of debilitatingabrupt
shift in climate that would be devastating.
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http://www.climatescience.gov/Library/sap/sap3-4/final-report/default.htm
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http://climateprogress.org/2008/11/24/what-are-the-near-term-climate-pearl-harbors/
- MIT report predicts median temperature forecast of 5.1C
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http://globalchange.mit.edu/pubs/abstract.php?publication_id=990
3. Climate Forecasts MIT 4. Our Challenge j j 26tons/person
1ton/person 2008 2050 ? j 2100 2tons/person Source: Stern 2008 5.
ICT: the scary facts
- By 2008, 50% of todays Data Centers and major science
facilities in the US will have insufficient power and
cooling;*
- By 2010, half of all Data Centers will have to relocate or
outsource applications to another facility.*
- During the next 5 years, 90% of all companies will experience
some kind of power disruption. In that same period one in four
companies will experience a significant business disruption*
- Future Broadband- Internet alone is expected to consume 5% of
all electricity
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http://www.ee.unimelb.edu.au/people/rst/talks/files/Tucker_Green_Plenary.pdf
*Sourcce:http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0802/levy.html 6. ICT and
Cyber-Infrastructure is critical to reducing CO2
- Direct emissions of Internet and ICT are important at 2-3% of
world emissions but, in order of impact, the most significant
contribution we can make is through leveraged, or indirect,
emissions reductions.
- According toSMART 2020these represent as much as a 15%
reduction opportunity in global emissions.
- But we need to measure these GHG savings via independent 3
rdparty auditing
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- Far too much hand waving and speculation
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- Many of the claims of energy efficiency will be lost to Jevons
Paradox
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- ISO 14064 audits essential to validate such reductions
7. ICTs Enabling Effect is Significant
- Can deliver carbon emission reductions five times size of
sectors own footprint by 2020
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- 7.8 Giga-tons carbon dioxide equivalent
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- Greater than US or Chinas current annual emissions
- Key sectors include Transportation, Buildings, Industrial
Processes,and Power
- No other sector can achieve this enabler effect !!
Source:SMART 2020: Enabling the low carbon economy in the
information age, 2008 8. Canadas ICT enabler effect ICT sector
contributes one megatonne of GHG emissions or < 1% of Canadas
totalEnabling effect estimated at between 19.1 36 MT of CO2e
Telework, Car pools, Transportation logistics, Virtual Meetings,
Smart Buildings & e-commerce Estimated financial benefit
between $7.5 billion $12.9 billion Source: Industry Canada 9. The
Carbon Economy
- $500 billion - Value of low-carbon energy markets by 2050
- $100 billion - Demand for projects generating GHG emissions
credits by 2030
- $57 trillion - Carbon Disclosure Project signatories, 1000s of
companies participating, expanding to supply chain accounting
- Obamas cap and trade estimated produce $300 billion carbon
trading in North America in the next 5 years (Globe and Mail)
- To be eligible to earn some of these revenues ICT industry must
go through ISO 14064 process for all products and services that
claim to reduce CO2e and join registries etc
10. Zero Carbon strategy essential
- Zero carbon strategy using renewable energy critically
important if governments introduce cap and trade or mandate carbon
neutrality
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- Governments already mandating carbon tracking for business and
research funding in UK
- Reducing carbon will be difficult in some sectors e.g.
transportation so to achieve Kyoto/ Copenhagen targets we need to
be zero carbon in other areas
- With a zero carbon strategy increase in demand for ICT services
to reduce GHG in other sectors will not effectabsolute GHG
emissions
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- Anything times zero is always zero
- Wind and solar power are most likely candidates because of
opportunity cost/benefit analysis especially time to deploy
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- Nuclear has high opportunity cost becauseof time to deploy
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http://climateprogress.org/2008/12/14/stanford-study-part-1-wind-solar-baseload-easily-beat-nuclear-and-they-all-best-clean-coal/
11. Zero Carbon ICT
- Purchasing green power locally is expensive with significant
transmission line losses
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- Demand for green power within cities expected to grow
dramatically
- ICT facilitiesDONT NEED TO BE LOCATED IN CITIES
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- -Cooling also a major problem in cities
- But most renewable energy sites are very remote and impractical
to connect to electrical grid.
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- Can be easily reached by an optical network
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- Provide independence from electrical utility and high costs in
wheeling power
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- Savings in transmission line losses (up to 15%) alone, plus
carbon offsets can pay for moving ICT facilities to renewable
energy site
- ICT is only industry ideally suited to relocate to renewable
energy sites
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- Also ideal for business continuity in event of climate
catastrophe
12. Business Opportunity for Canadian ICT
- Three step strategy to use ICT and cyber-infrastructure to
reduce GHG emissions:
- Clean up our own act first
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- zero carbon Internet and cyber-infrastructure
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- 2-3% GHG reduction - $20 billion in offsets*
- Use ICT for abatement in other areas:
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- Smart buildings, smart grid etc
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- 15% GHG reduction - $100 billion in offsets*
- Use ICT as a reward mechanism to promote reduction of GHG
emissions
- *@$100 ton CO2e in US market
13. CANARIE Green-IT Pilot
- $3mallocation for Green cyber-infrastructure-IT pilot
testbed
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- Technical viability and usability for relocating computers and
clouds to zero carbon data centers and follow the sun/follow the
wind grid
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- Business case viability of offering carbon offsets (and or
equivalent in services) to universities who reduce their carbon
footprint by relocating computers and instrumentation to zero
carbon data centers
14. Questions for today
- CANARIE wants you input and suggestions on how to structure
proposed $3m Green IT Pilot
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- Should it be directed call to a single project?
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- Or should several different projects be invited to
participate?
- Industry participation essential
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- What is their contribution to a potential project?
- Importance of demonstrating viability of carbon offsets from
baseline emissions measurement, aggregation, signing up to registry
and trading
- International partnerships who and how
15. Some initial proposals
- Jorge Vinals[email_address]
- Jorge Vinals is with CLUMEQ, a HPC facility in Quebec and is
working with Fran Berman at SDSC on sharing green HPC compute
resources between Canada and US
- Randy Sobie[email_address]
- Randy Sobie is preparing a proposal for a BC Government funding
program. He want to leverage their work with the Nimbus team and
the forestry group (SAFORAH). They want try to sell it as running
environmental applications on a green grid/cloud (eg creating
carbon maps of Canada using a zero-carbon grid).
- Alan Croswell has received a research grant from NYSERDA to
explore how to consolidate and make more efficient use of compute
cluster on campus and possibly relocation to a zero carbon data
center
- Mike Hrybyk[email_address]
- Mike is president of BCnet and has undertaken a study to look
at building a zero carbon data center for the universities in BC
using turbine spin up power at a hydro dam
- Yvan Lafontaine[email_address] ,Eric
Lheureux[email_address]
- Yvan and Eric are working with PROMPT and Hydro Quebec to
explore building a zero carbon data center in Shawinigan
- Michel Savoie[email_address] ,John Spence[email_address]
,Martin Brooks[email_address] ,Mathieu Lemay[email_address] ,
Eduard Grasa
- The CRC and its partners is working on a follow the wind/follow
the sun network
16. Initial Proposals-2
- Bill Stewart[email_address]
- Bill is president of ESRI which has developed open source cloud
applications for Unbuntu using green servers in Montreal
- Jerry Sheehan[email_address] , Larry Smarr[email_address] ,
Philip Papadopoulos , [email_address] , Thornton,
Dallas-forward[email_address] , Tom Defanti[email_address] )
- Jerry Sheehan is the PI for Green IT at UCSD. Larry Smarr is
the head of Cal-It2 at UCSD and has been the evangelist for Green
IT in the US. Larry Smarr and his team are deploying a set of
clusters around UCSD called Triton in which they hope to
consolidate compute tasks from various clusters around the campus.
They are interested in exploring installation of Triton node in
Canada at a zero carbon data center. Tom Defanti is the PI for a
project called Greenlight which will be an essential for measuring
energy consumption (and thereby calculate carbon offsets) of
various configurations of computer and network equipment
- Victor Rejis[email_address] , Mike Norris[email_address]
- Victor has been spearheading the Manticore II project to create
virtual routers for a zero carbon network and is exploring to build
a zero carbon network node in Ireland
17. Agenda
- 08h30-08h45 Welcome Remarks (Guy)
- 08h45 -09h15 Overview of days objectives
- 09h15-10:00 ISO 14064 Tom Baumann
- 10h15-10h30 Zero Carbon data centers
- 10h30-11h30 Short 10 min proposals
- 13h00- 16h00 Bill Munson, ITAC
- OECD's work on ICT, the Environment Josie Brocca, Industry
Canadaand Climate Change
- IEC/TC111 Environmental Standards Walter Jager, ECD
Technology,
- Upcoming regulation of standby power Bruce Strathearn /
Katherine Delves, NRCan
- Electronic product stewardshipJay Illingworth
- Chemicals Management Plan Nabila Elsaadi
- - Substances Working Group
- Other business / next meeting
- 16h00 17h:00CANARIE/ITAC closing remarks