mysore about 3mw hours of electricity was saved in two months ending saturday observed as earth day through a contest organized by mysorebased vigyanlabs innovative private ltd the firm in association with world wildlife fund wwf had conducted a contest friends of earth hour 2013 the next green revolution on january 23 2013 the firm also developed a software intelligent power managementplus which enables computers to save power the software was put on wwwipmpluscom so that people could freely download the same aspiring contestants installed it in their computers those saving maximum were entitled for a prize to reach out to many people the company had launched a free android app ipmplus earth hour edition battery saver in google play some weeks ago around 1200plus people from over 240 cities in 10 countries had taken part in the earth hour contest their collective participation helped save over 3 mw hours of electricity in less than 60 days over 1 tonne of carbon dioxide emission is saved which is equivalent to growing 30 trees the facebook page of the contest and the company has received over 2000 likes from across india to encourage power saving vigyanlabs had also posted i will if u will challenge on the earth hour global channel for every tonne of carbon dioxide emission that such power savings help to achieve vigyanlabs will plant 30 saplings vigyanlabs vicepresident anand hariharn told stoi technology has set off a green revolution in a unique way the concept worked without any support and there has been no report of system crash vinay parameshwarappa who took part in the contest said the initiative was nice people must continue to use the software even after the contest so power is saved he added on world environment day vigyanlabs will plant 90 saplings to mark 3mw hours of power saved during the contest