TI applauds passage and signing of energy act
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In the closing days of the 2007 congressional session, Congress passed – and the president signed – a long-awaited energy bill. The Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 is projected to save American consumers and businesses $450 billion in avoided energy costs by 2030 and will help reduce energy consumption by 8 percent and greenhouse gas emissions by 10 percent.
Parts of the bill are of special interest to TI. It includes everything from mandating that utilities and data centers become more energy-efficient to establishing an Office of High-Performance Green Building to address energy-saving efforts such as those used at TI’s RFAB, the world’s first “green” semiconductor manufacturing facility. It accelerates solar energy R&D, launches international energy programs and establishes new and updated appliance efficiency standards.
Improving data center energy efficiency will have an impact on TI customers. The bill updates federal energy standards, and TI has been developing power management integrated circuits that help customers meet and exceed these energy-saving standards. Because of TI’s products, its customers can be ahead of the regulatory requirements.
Although data centers provide the massive computing power necessary to drive the Internet and the global communications network of satellites, fiber optics and cell phones, their energy consumption presents the biggest challenge. In a recent industry poll, more than 80 percent of information technology (IT) professionals listed power consumption as the number-one problem in data center management. The bill creates a new program for an industry-led initiative managed by the Energy Department and the Environmental Protection Agency to develop efficiency metrics and best practices for data centers.
Rich Templeton, TI president and CEO, recently said that semiconductor technology will help solve the world’s energy problems and that TI has a unique opportunity to make an impact because of the company’s expertise and experience. He added that TI continues to develop innovative energy-saving technology that allows customers to better optimize available energy, as well as support the growing field of alternative energy sources such as wind, solar and other options.
TI leads the market with a broad portfolio of innovative power supply management circuits, intelligent power converters and protection circuits aimed at solving customers’ most challenging power design problems.
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