With a history of environmental stewardship dating back to the 1970's, IBM is channeling their resources and influence into a new program called Big Green Innovations. Capitalizing on the burgeoning 'Green sector,' the new program plans to create new sources of revenue by "combining the skills of its business consultants in the energy and utilities industry with the computational power of its supercomputers.

The program, called Big Green Innovations, takes aim at everything from creating "carbon dashboards" that help corporations lower their supply chain's carbon emissions to designing energy-efficient data centers and more powerful solar cells.

 

For example, IBM workers could devise models to measure and forecast carbon emissions generated by a company's supply chain. Using its supercomputers, IBM could run calculations that recommend ways to restructure a partner network to lower energy consumption.

 

Similarly, the company is looking at how computing horsepower now used for weather and climate forecasting, could be used to speed up the development of biofuels.

 

Other projects the company is eyeing include software and sensors to make electricity distribution grids more efficient and reliable.

Cnet: IBM sees green in environmental tech