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Energy efficiency and gaming’s tricky time-of-use problem

Energy efficiency and gaming’s tricky time-of-use problem

Earlier this month the International Energy Agency released a new report, outlining the case for a redoubled focus on efficiency as an enabler of 2050 net zero ambitions. Energy efficiency, as Wikipedia succinctly explains, is “the ratio between the useful output of an energy conversion machine and the input”. Vehicles

GTG Links No.4: 10th June

Weekend reading for the climate minded

How much electricity does indie dev use, and how can we find out?

How much electricity does indie dev use, and how can we find out?

At the top end of town, the games industry is waking up to the need to decarbonise, with many of the world’s largest game publishers and game development studios setting and making progress towards carbon neutrality and net zero goals. With the end of the financial year coming up,

GTG Links No.3 – 27th May

Saudi Oil money buying into Nintendo Will be interesting to see if this has any effect (good or bad) on the company's environmental strategy – Nintendo being the only one of the main 3 platformholders who still doesn't have a stated net zero goal (unless I have

4K & 8K Gaming and Energy Efficiency: How many pixels is too many?

I’ve been thinking a lot about what sorts of reasonable limits or regulations we could place on gaming hardware to reduce energy consumption and emissions. I haven’t written extensively on it yet (though there are some sections [https://twitter.com/selfbankt/status/1448991540815224832?s=20&t=nFXOAjrhefwcgF0UOMqNRw]

GTG Links No.2 – 13th May

Keeping with the theme of this week's post, news from the Japanese energy market Three big asset managers file joint climate resolutions at J-PowerThree European asset managers, including the largest, Amundi , said on Wednesday they had jointly filed climate-change resolutions at Japanese electricity generator Electric Power Development Co

A solar array about the size of a football field, with panels tilted away from the camera, on a sunny day on the way to Kyoto

Super Mario Sunshine: Nintendo’s 2019 CSR stuff up and Japan's Renewables mix

So there’s a pretty big error in my book that I was only recently made aware of. In Chapter 4 “How much energy does it take to make a videogame? [https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-91705-0_4]” I gave Nintendo a pretty glowing review, as they seemed

A chart displaying Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions for Unity taken from their first ESG report.

GTG Links No.1 – May 6th

Welcome to the first Greening the Game Industry end of week links round-up. This one ended up a little longer than expected, but there’s more news than usual. I’m hoping to keep these a little shorter next time. The links collected here will be the things I’ve

The European Union’s ‘Self-Regulatory Initiative to further improve the energy efficiency of Games Consoles’

The European Union’s ‘Self-Regulatory Initiative to further improve the energy efficiency of Games Consoles’

In the news last week was a British Gas report with some rather dubious numbers about the amount of electricity (and thus money) being wasted by “vampire devices” that use power when plugged in but not being used. The Guardian had a nice summary of the criticisms of the latest