Energy saving has become a critical issue and a great challenge in the past few decades, and a great effort as well is being made to reduce consumed energy. The Internet forms a major source for energy consumption. Therefore, in this work we propose an algorithm for energy saving in distributed backbone networks, the reduced energy consumption (RedCon) algorithm. In this paper, we introduce a new version for saving energy on the Internet by switching off underutilized links and switching on idle links when the network is overloaded in a distributed manner over the network nodes based on LSA messages and without any knowledge of the traffic matrix. Our algorithm is more accurate and outperforms other algorithms with its time checks and advanced learning algorithm.