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Santa Fe County encourages residents and staff to participate in “Power IT Down Day” on Aug. 27.  “We each need to do our part,” says County Commissioner Virginia Vigil “Power IT Down Day is a new initiative through which government and industry show their commitment to responsible energy usage.”

Residents can learn more about it by visiting this site: www.hp.com/go/poweritdown.  

Individuals from over 100 unique government entities across federal, state, and local agencies have already signed up.  Over 1,200 in total have already shown their commitment to power IT down.  This equals an estimated energy savings of more than 16,000-kilowatt hours -- and more are signing up every day. 

For background, the Power IT Down Day concept will reduce unnecessary power usage with one simple adjustment to the work habits of government and industry employees: on August 27, as people leave their workstations for the evening, they should power down their computers, monitors, and printers instead of allowing these devices to sit idle.  Across the government landscape, the benefit from this one simple action can be enormous.