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Rudd locks in green power plan Chris Hammer Canberra July 3, 2008 THE Rudd Government has set Australia on course for a new era of greener but more expensive electricity, pressing ahead with a plan to make 20% of ou

THE Rudd Government has set Australia on course for a new era of greener but more expensive electricity, pressing ahead with a plan to make 20% of our power come from renewable sources within just over a decade.

REDUCING carbon emissions will not be cost free for Australians, Kevin Rudd has bluntly declared, as he turns the heat on the Liberals to pass the Government's scheme in the Senate next year.

Speaking at the launch of the new strategy, which sets out how the U.K. plans to meet its target of generating 15 percent of energy from renewable sources by 2020, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said that the "green revolution" would result in a tenfold increase in the U.K.'s current renewable energy capacity.

That is changing with the company’s relatively new corporate environmental site. One big shift in the past six months has been the focus on software as a means of controlling or affecting carbon footprints. The potential for analytics and management technology that helps businesses run scenarios to better plan around emissions, geographic concerns and data center limitations suddenly seems boundless. The other big transition that Microsoft faces, of course, is the Software as a Service (SaaS) movement, which will see its data center footprint mushroom extensively in the coming years.