What is BS EN 50600‑4‑6 about?
BS EN 50600 series specifies requirements and recommendations for supporting various parties involved in the design, planning, procurement, integration, installation, operation and maintenance of facilities and infrastructures within data centers.
BS EN 50600‑4‑6 sixth subpart of the fourth part of the series specifies the Energy Reuse Factor (ERF) for quantifying the reused energy consumed by the data center.
BS EN 50600‑4‑6 specifies the energy reuse factor along with its measurement, calculation and reporting.
BS EN 50600‑4‑6 describes ERF discrimination from Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE).
Note: Under BS EN 50600‑4‑6 the ERF does not reflect the efficiency of the reuse process.
Who is BS EN 50600‑4‑6 for?
BS EN 50600‑4‑6 on energy reuse factor is useful for:
- Installers and maintainers
- Equipment manufacturers and suppliers
- Architects, system and installation designers
- Facility and infrastructure integrators
- Facility managers, ICT managers, project managers, and main contractors
- Network operators
Why should you use BS EN 50600‑4‑6?
A data center is used for housing and supporting information technology and network telecommunications equipment for data processing, data storage, and data transport.
But these data centers need to provide more modular, scalable, and flexible facilities and infrastructure to easily accommodate the rapidly changing requirements of the market. To enable the optimum resource effectiveness of data centers due to the rising demand for power consumption, a suite of effective KPIs is required for measuring and reporting resources that are consumed to develop an improvement roadmap.
In this regard, BS EN 50600‑4‑6 specifies the energy reuse factor to quantify the reuse of the energy consumed in the data center.
BS EN 50600‑4‑6 helps in providing information that is useful and efficient for various parties involved in installation or operating data centers.
BS EN 50600‑4‑6 helps in quantifying the energy that is reused in data centers and thus, helps in maintaining reports of reused energy for evaluation purposes to become more energy efficient.
BS EN 50600‑4‑6 helps in measuring and calculating energy reuse factors to see whether the data centers are resource-efficient thus helping in reducing wastage of resources.
Compliance with BS EN 50600‑4‑6 will help you establish data centers that are more energy-efficient and environment friendly, by incorporating the concept of sustainability in the information technology sector.