Dell Choosing Clean Energy
Posted on April 3, 2008
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by Willy Ritch
Dell Computer is jumping into clean energy with both feet at it’s Texas headquarters. The company says it’s switching to 100% renewable energy at its 2 million square foot campus in Round Rock, TX. Sixty percent of the power will come from wind and the rest from a community landfill trash-to-energy facility.
Dell wants to reduce it’s carbon footprint, and that must be a big part of their decision. But they are a for-profit company after all, and they’re not ignoring the bottom line. Clean energy can be a good deal on this front, too: the company says choosing renewable energy gives them price stability, while fossil-fuel fired power just keeps getting more and more expensive. Right now clean energy is slightly more expensive, but Dell doesn’t think that will last.
Dell expects the renewable power to become cheaper than fossil fuel electricity during the next three years, saving the company almost $2 million per year and cutting carbon dioxide emissions by almost 12,000 tons.
The Wall Street Journal says the landfill producing the methane for the trash-to-energy component is actually coming from the Dell headquarters. Talk about recycling.
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