Announcement of the Winners of Green IT Awards 2012

METI commenced the Green IT Award program in FY2008, which recognizes excellent energy conservation equipment and efforts with the aim of accelerating the Green IT Initiative, which focuses on "savings in IT-related energy consumption" and "energy conservation through the use of IT."

Its review board strictly examined applications and selected winners of the Green IT Awards 2012, including the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI Minister) Award and the Commerce and Information Policy Bureau Director-General Award.

1. Winners of the Green IT Award 2012

Many applications were submitted under two categories: (1) Savings in IT-related Energy Consumption and (2) Energy Conservation through the Use of IT. Five winners were selected for each of the two categories (one winner of the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Award, one winner of the Commerce and Information Policy Bureau Director-General Award, one winner of the Green IT Promotion Council Chairman Award, and two winners of the Review Board Special Award), or ten in total.

(1) Savings in IT-related Energy Consumption

This category is for energy conservation through data centers (e.g. servers, storage, software, facility management), networks, hardware and systems (e.g. displays), and devices and technologies constituting these.

(2) Energy Conservation through the Use of IT

This category is for energy conservation through IT solutions for households and businesses, new services utilizing IT, and projects by single companies or groups of companies.

*Please refer to the attachment for the details of awarded efforts, etc.(PDF:1,896KB) (in Japanese)

Winners of the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Award

(1) Savings in IT-related Energy Consumption
"Data Center Power System"
NTT Data Intellilink Corporation, Japan Radio Co., Ltd., and NTT Data Corporation

(2) Energy Conservation through the Use of IT
"Energy conservation and power saving solution utilizing data simulation technology from a remote server"
Azbil Corporation

Winners of the Commerce and Information Policy Bureau Director-General Award

(1) Savings in IT-related Energy Consumption
"Matsue Data Center Park"
Internet Initiative Japan Inc.

(2) Energy Conservation through the Use of IT
"Environmental contribution through worldwide expansion of the cloud environment (FGCP/S5)"
Fujitsu Limited

2. Overview of the Green IT Award

The Green IT Award program aims to contribute to the creation of a society that can simultaneously achieve environmental conservation and economic growth through widely disseminating Green IT activities, focusing on "savings in IT-related energy consumption" and "energy conservation through the use of IT."
This award program publicly recognizes IT systems (IT devices, software, and services/solutions utilizing such devices or software) whose development/dissemination or use has helped reduce energy consumption in society.
The program organized by the Green IT Promotion Council was launched in FY 2008.

Release Date

October 17, 2012

Division in Charge

Information and Communication Electronics Division, Commerce and Information Policy Bureau

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Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry
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