Recently in Energy Prices Category

Since I run many computers in one of our offices, I'm always glad when winter comes around. It means cold weather, and no more air conditioning costs!

I hope to see a $50 to $75 reduction in my monthly electricity bill.

Its too bad computers make so much heat. Cooling them can get expensive! If computers get too hot, they fail, so I monitor the temperature of the machines I manage every four hours.

To qualify for the small business energy sales tax exemption in Massachusetts, my business must file form ST-13 every year.

I'm trying to find out if its possible to pay my small business electricity bill with a credit card.

Unfortunately, the website only seems to let residential customers pay by credit card, and even then there is a four dollar fee for doing so.

Doh!

At least their online system has improved quite a bit.

My small business offers customized hosting services, and what makes our service offering so special is that we manage everything about our services - we don't outsource our core competency.

Therefore, we directly pay for the electricity our servers consume. To me, it is an interesting part of our business. At this point in time, its not a gigantic part of our expenses, but it is substantial, so I do my best to try and reduce the consumption as much as possible.

Speaking of which, I'm planning to shut down another development server to try and reduce the power consumption even more!