Who we are

GEAR simplifies your goal of achieving data center energy efficiency while meeting your internal and external customer needs.

GEAR is easy to work with, energy efficiency certified and professional. We know energy, we know LEED and Energy Star. We know IT. Complementing your IT, operations and facilities teams we save you time, money and fit your business plan. With GEAR our clients get a comprehensive energy efficiency benchmarks and reports, options and recommendations for energy refresh plans including migration and upgrades of both hardware and software applications, infrastructure and energy cost savings and hands on help in securing utility company incentives and gaining energy certifications. We are both problem takers and problem solvers...

Complementing your IT and facilities teams we save you time, money and fit your business plan. With GEAR our clients get a comprehensive energy efficiency data center benchmark and report, options and recommendations for energy refresh plans including migration and upgrades of both hardware and software applications, infrastructure and energy cost savings and hands on help in securing utility company incentives. We are both problem takers and problem solvers.

GEAR works primarily with government and government contractor customers located in California and the western states. Headquartered in Danville, California with a satellite office in southern California the company employs a team of utility trained and IT network certified project managers and auditors. Our GEAR professionals speak energy and they speak IT..

Why Data Center Efficiency?

On August 2, 2007 in a report to the United States Congress, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimated that the energy used to power and cool servers and data centers is significant in the United States. It is estimated that the IT sector consumed about 61 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) in 2006 (1.5 percent of the total U.S. electricity consumption) for a total electricity cost of about $4.5 billion. This total is expected to double to over 130 billion kWh or $9 billion by 2011 and total more than 2.5 percent of total US electricity usage.

Some of the biggest users of electricity are local, state and federal government agencies and government contractors. The potential for cost savings and efficient use of energy across these enterprises and agencies going forward is massive.

GEAR was created to serve this market of local, state and federal agencies and their contractors to assist them save money on their electricity bills and also receive cash incentives from electrical utility companies. The US Department of Energy (DOE) leads a national level program to increase public awareness of energy efficiency programs and products and need for energy management at home, business and industrial levels and is championing efforts to provide incentives to all these user types. The incentive programs are mandated by the state public utility commissions and in CA by the PUC. According to PG&E the program administered by the CA PUC is mandatory and is the same across all utilities in the state.

Utility companies driving the reduction

California’s utility companies, for example, prompted by DoE and the CA PUC, are driving to reduce the appetite and consumption of energy costs and workers with customers, partners, service companies, consultants, vendors and others to create and adopt products and technology that improve efficient use of electricity regardless of producing source (most is coal) and to provide incentives to companies and agencies that embrace the program.

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