Intel has launched its lesswatts.org initiative: A project that aims to address the power consumption of Intel platforms running the open source GNU/Linux operating system. The website features tips and utilities to help users and administrators of Linux on Intel machines in lowering energy consumption. PowerTop is the one utility that is featured in the site that finds

Linux applications that misbehave while the computer is idle, preventing the computer from completely going in low power mode to lower power consumption. Lesswatts.org also features many documentations and white papers about power consumption of computers and how it can be lowered or how the computer can be optimized to make it more power efficient.