Solar, Wind and Wave all provide good clean energy, but sometimes there is no substitute for good old fashioned energy saving.

Teagle Machinery, based in Cornwall, manufacture agricultural machinery for sale in the U.K. and throughout the world. As a steadily growing business they are always looking for increased efficiencies and reducing power consumption is top on the list. Mark Lawrence IT Manager of Teagle said "Like many companies, most of our office computers are idle outside normal office hours. Relying on staff to turn them off is a hit and miss approach. We wanted to find a solution that could manage needless power consumption, lower our energy costs and reduce our carbon footprint. We talked to Piran Technologies about the problem and the results were impressive."

"Teagles requirements are universal to every business and are in synergy with our own company ethos." �Said Mark Wright, Managing Director of Cornish company Piran Technologies. As an IT consultancy that specialises in lowering carbon costs for our customerswe are only too aware of the environmental and financial impact of today's business systems."

Piran Technology installed virtual servers, reducing the number of physical servers on site. At the time Teagle came to us we were trialling several software suites capable of isolating individual computers and other electrical items and turning them remotely during long periods of inactivity, typically outside office hours.  These items could then be automatically restarted when needed in the morning.

The great thing about this software, unlike power consumption monitoring products,� added Mark Lawrence from Teagle is that it eliminates the need for human intervention.  We set the policies for each item and the workstation scan be sympathetically shut down to ensure no data is lost.  These workstations are then automatically re-started in time for when they are required. We control the software and the rules, not the other way round.

"The tools we are implementing are incredibly sophisticated.�" Said Mark from Piran Technologies "For instance,if they sense activity on the p.c. then it won't be shut down.  Instead it will keep checking, if it senses inactivity for 30 minutes for example it will then save any work and power it off."

"Over the initial 4 week trial period our company, Teagle, saved a massive 165.2 Kw/h of power."�  Confirmed Mark Lawrence.   "Over a 12 month period we will save over £1300 and nearly 5 tonnes of carbon on just15 computers.  Based on that data we have already doubled the roll out, I mean why wouldn't you?"

Piran Technologies are now hopingto take this technology further and are looking at marketing their own branded energy management solution.  Companies need to use electricity, that's unavoidable,� added Mark "They just need better tools to help them manage it."

Notes for Editors:

Teagle Machinery Ltd, based just outside Truro in Cornwall, was formed in 1944 and was initially based around a family farm. Ithas grown steadily over the years from a company selling early post warequipment to West of England farmers, into a modern, professional organisation,but still a family business, which sells machines to the whole of the UK andexports to virtually all major countries of the world.  Teagle has a policy of investing in thefuture, both by way of product development and manufacturing resources. Stateof the art technology is used throughout the company.