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Today’s Presentation: Green IT Carbon Accounting Protocol Presented By: Pierre Boileau Senior Advisor, Climate Change

Agenda
1) Presentation (20 Minutes)
Background on Green IT Carbon Accounting Protocol
Work of Carbon Assessment Group
Progress on Key Technical Issues
Next Steps
2) Q & A (10 Minutes)

Background on Green IT Carbon Accounting Protocol

Need for Carbon Accounting in Green IT
Green IT: Complex definition. Focused primarily on energy efficiency, now also looking at decarbonization. As IT infrastructure grows, emissions and impact become greater.
Data Centres: CANARIE project and GreenStar focused on dramatically improving data centre efficiency and decarbonizing data centre services. Virtualization a key component.
Partners: Academia, private sector and NGOs. Carbon accounting expertise in CSA as well as development of consensus-based documents. IT expertise in most other partners. Working to merge the two.
Market Need: Data centres and IT providers want to demonstrate social responsibility by accounting for and reducing their impacts. Market advantage might also be possible.

Approach to Carbon Accounting Functional Unit Carbon Credits Data Centre Additionality Can processes be streamlined? Where can emissions be reduced? Where are emissions occurring? Workload Cooling IT Infrastructure PUE Regulatory Common Practice Financial Baseline

Carbon Assessment Group

Carbon Accounting and IT Expertise
Sub-group of Greenstar
GRC
Rackforce
CSA
Inocybe
Ideal Consulting
Weekly calls to develop key concepts
How to establish functional equivalence
How to track progress over time
Baselines and additionality

Decision Making Process
Three main components to making decisions within the CAG
Paper or Seed Document Group Discussion on Issue Text in Protocol Agreement on Path Forward

Technical Issues Discussed
What type of project is covered by Protocol
What is equivalent workload between project and baseline;
What are appropriate measurement metrics (e.g. PUE)
What do the calculation equations look like
How do we justify that the project is additional

Outcomes on Key Technical Issues

2 Scopes to the Protocol
Project activities involving improvements to ICT facilities
changing the environment of the ICT equipment
improving the efficiency of the facilities
changing the energy source to renewable energy
Project activities involving improvements to ICT services
improvement in the delivery of ICT services
physical improvements for higher efficiency
migration of machines, applications, or other services (e.g. collocation or consolidation)

UPS Heating & Cooling Misc including lighting etc. Processor Memory Disk? Network Storage Switchgear Back up Power Source Transformer Grid or Primary Power Source To the Net Alternate Power Source Scope 1 Project Scope Scope 1 Project Scope Scope 2 Project Scope IT Facility

Workload is equivalent (don’t need to measure)
Workload is equal to demand for services
Demand for services should be equivalent before and after project implementation
Small differential due to ‘greenness’ of data centre
Can ignore that and still be conservative
Complexity of measuring workload justifies this approach
No clear definition of data centre workload
Level of service agreements all different
Level of service agreements confidential
Measurements of workload not standardized at this point

PUE is appropriate metric
Becoming better defined
USEPA Energy Star using PUE
Works best for physical improvements to data centres
Not as appropriate for improvements to services
Easier to construct equations

Calculation Equations

Additionality Would the project go ahead without incentive from carbon credits? Is it required by regulation? Is it common practice for the sector? Is it the most profitable choice that could have been made?

Next Steps

International Technical Advisory Group
Review draft protocol
Provide technical input on key issues
Suggest alternative approaches
Communicate back to their constituencies
Obtain broad buy-in
Road-test protocol
Use it to see if there are
deficiencies
Perhaps not enough guidance
Test for practicality
Report back and incorporate comments

Public Comment Period
Part of normal CSA process:
Anyone who hasn’t been involved can be;
Technical advisory group must disposition comments
Ensures broad awareness of protocol before publication
Creates ‘buzz’

Publication
To broader community of users :
Used for GRC – Rackforce project
Demonstration case
Project documents registered and emission reductions serialized
CSA GHG CleanProjects TM Registry

Follow the Sun, Follow the Wind
May be useful for other portions of CANARIE project
Quantification can be done at the service level;
Virtualization, consolidation, co-location can be ‘measured’
Useful for broader IT industry
Stimulate more efficient use of data centres

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Thank you This presentation provides an overview of the status of the protocol development process for Green IT. It is aimed at professionals with an interest or emerging responsibility in the management of emission reduction projects in the field of Green IT. For questions regarding this presentation or information on how you can get started in managing carbon performance in your organization, contact: Paul Steenhof at [email_address] Chris Weber at [email_address] CSA Standards, one of the world’s largest standards organizations, offers a range of climate change services to help companies and organizations measure and manage their carbon footprint, including preparing carbon inventories and management plans to help reduce emissions and achieve carbon neutrality. In addition, CSA Standards is a leader in certifying professionals to verify and quantify GHG emissions. Ensuring a consistent means of measuring and reporting emissions is the foundation for improving performance and a cap-and-trade system. With locations across North America, including a primary office in Cleveland, Ohio, CSA Standards provides tools and solutions for organizations to improve carbon performance and help meet the new EPA reporting requirements. About CSA Standards

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