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State law SDCL §5-18-38, passed during the 2010 legislative session, requires that state agencies “make purchasing selections to maximize the purchase of environmentally preferable products.” The Bureau of Administration, Office of Procurement Management, is proposing rules to implement the new law, including defining “energy consuming products” and requiring such products be Energy Star qualified, Green Seal certified or Ecologo certified.
An energy management effort by the Bureau of Information & Telecommunications (BIT) sets work station computers to enter sleep mode after two hours of inactivity and sets monitors to energy saver mode. Printers are default set to duplex printing. BIT sends periodic reminders to all users to manually log off at the end of the day and week. A long term server virtualization project has also reduced the number of servers needed and the energy to power them.
Surplus computers and electronic equipment are first made available to other state agencies and schools and then sold by the Bureau of Administration, Office of Property Management, to a private recycler based on competitive bid.