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Hosting.Com Becomes Green Energy Champion
Hosting.Com Becomes Green Energy Champion
More Than 1,500 Tons of Carbon Emissions Will Be Offset Annually
Hosting.Com has become the first "Green
Energy Champion" with Louisville Gas and Electric, an E.ON company,
offsetting more than 1,500 tons of carbon emissions annually.
Demonstrating their intent to lead the commercial sector in green
initiatives, Hosting.Com, a web hosting and co-location services company,
is purchasing 208 Green Energy blocks -- 1,000 kilowatt hours each --
monthly for the next 12 months. To put that in perspective, that is
equivalent to planting approximately 1,310 acres of trees, or removing 304
cars from the road.
Nationally, data centers consume up to 1.5 percent of all energy
consumption. "We believe it is our social and business responsibility to
offset our carbon emissions. Our industry is one that must take a close
look at its energy consumption and the impact it will have on the
environment," said Darren King, CEO of Hosting.Com.
King added, "We hope to set the industry standard on environmental
stewardship. To that end, we have built one of the greenest data centers in
the country, virtualized our server environments to optimize usage and
output, and set up a program to reimburse all employees that participate in
such programs."
LG&E and Kentucky Utilities Company's Green Energy program provides for the
growth and development of renewable energy including that of the Mother Ann
Lee Hydroelectric Plant, located on the Kentucky River near Harrodsburg,
Ky. LG&E and KU residential and small business customers can participate
for as little as $5 per month, or in larger purchases of $5 blocks.
Commercial customers, such as Hosting.Com, can purchase blocks for as
little as $13 per month.
Each $13 block supports 1,000 kWh of Kentucky area renewable energy. All
green energy purchases are voluntary and in addition to the regular bill
amount.
"Hosting.Com is our first industrial customer to completely offset its
annual carbon emissions. They've also done this in their California and
Boston offices, and we are pleased they've chosen to take part in the LG&E
program," said John P. Malloy, Vice President of Energy Delivery, Retail
Business, for E.ON U.S., parent company of LG&E.
More than 500 customers are currently enrolled in LG&E and KU's Green
Energy program. Interested customers can enroll in the program -- and
calculate the environmental benefit of their purchase in terms of carbon
emissions reduced each month -- by visiting www.eon-us.com/green.
"Going green is not about buzzwords, it is making sustainable and
environmentally-conscious decisions that will impact our existing clients
and future generations of clients," said King.
About E.ON U.S.
E.ON U.S., headquartered in Louisville, Ky., is a subsidiary of E.ON A.G.,
the world's largest investor-owned energy services provider. E.ON U.S. is a
diversified energy services company that owns and operates Louisville Gas
and Electric Company, a regulated utility that serves 326,000 natural gas
and 401,000 electric customers in Louisville and 16 surrounding counties,
and Kentucky Utilities Company, a regulated electric utility in Lexington,
Ky., that serves 536,000 customers in 77 Kentucky counties and five
counties in Virginia.
About Hosting.Com
Since 1996, Hosting.Com, the First Name in Hosting, has provided
award-winning dedicated hosting, managed hosting, colocation, disaster
recovery and business continuance services to a global customer base
demanding a high level of security, reliability and responsiveness.
Hosting.Com monitors, manages, and enhances the web based platforms of Web
2.0 companies, software as a service providers (SaaS), content distribution
networks (CDN), and medium to large enterprises whose web presence is
crucial and high availability mandatory. Hosting.Com currently owns and
operates its proprietary content delivery grid (CDG) via data center
facilities in Louisville, Kentucky; Irvine, California; San Francisco,
California; and Boston, Massachusetts. For more information, please visit
www.hosting.com or call the company at 800-446-7627.
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