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Up Close - Green, Sustainable NW - September 13, 2012
Software cuts energy use by city's computer system
Spokane reports $14,000 in savings during first year of using Verdiem product

By Mike McLean
Of the Journal of Business

A recent review of an energy-efficiency system the city of Spokane bought and installed on its network-connected desktop computers has found that the system saves the city more than $14,000 in energy costs annually.

That savings, coupled with incentives from Spokane-based energy company Avista Corp., already have paid for the system, which was developed by Seattle-based Verdiem Corp., says Michael Sloon, the city's director of management information systems.

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