Did You Know?
U.S. college students could save more than 2.3 billion kilowatt hours per year of electricity by enabling power saving features on their desktop PCs.
That equals an annual savings of more than $200 million in energy costs and a 1.8 million-ton reduction of CO2 emissions from the operation of computers - equivalent to taking more than 350,000 cars off the road
Manage Your Power
You can automatically save power and money when using your computer by using these settings for the power management features of your computer.
Recommended Settings
We recommend following the power management settings for your computer:
- Monitor/Display Sleep: Turn off after 15 minutes (or less)
- Turn Off Hard Drives/Hard Disk Sleep: After 15 minutes (or less)
- System Standby/Sleep: After 30 Minutes (or less)
How to change power management settings
- Change the settings yourself
Follow these instructions from Climate Savers Computing to change the settings in your operating system. - Use a power management tool (Windows)
Download Edison for Windows to easly change your power management settings and see how much money, energy and CO2 you'll save.
Use Presentation Mode to override power management
Giving a presentation or watching a movie on your computer?
Use Presentation Mode (Windows 7) to temporarily disable power management features.
- On the keyboard, hold down the Windows Key and press X. The Windows Mobility Center window opens.
- In the Presentation Settings area, click Turn On.
- The power save settings are now disabled for your current activity. When you shut down your laptop or close the lid, your normal settings will be turned back on.