Addressing the financial barriers that exist in deploying renewable energy for telecom base station sites
Green Power for Mobile launched in September 2008 with the aim of ‘Extending mobile beyond the grid’. One of the major barriers for scalability is the means of financing the equipment cost. Over the years, the Green Power for Mobile team has worked to support the industry in overcoming this barrier, by exploring financing opportunities through the IFC and by bringing details on innovative procurement models involving vendor financing to the industry.
Green Power for Mobile is a joint IFC and GSMA Mobile for Development programme which, in partnership with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, promotes the use of green power, such as solar and wind, at mobile network tower sites in remote rural areas around the world, where there is limited or no grid power. There are about 640,000 off-grid sites globally, primarily powered by diesel generators, out of which 120,000 could be eligible for green power solutions.
IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, is the largest global development institution focused exclusively on the private sector. GSMA is the industry association which represents the interests of nearly 800 mobile operators worldwide, serving more than 6 billion connections and 4 billion individual subscribers.
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Bharti Infratel's White Paper - Green Networks: Transforming Telecommunications on Sustainable Energy Alternatives
Bharti Infratel’s pioneering GreenTowers P7 Initiative is a comprehensive energy-efficiency and alternate-energy program covering seven high impact initiatives, which are aimed at reducing the carbon footprint through lower and optimized diesel usage. Downl...
- Green Power for Mobile
Best Practice Procurement Guide for Green Energy in India - March 2012
This is the revised version of our earlier published Best Practise Procurement Guide for Green Energy in India, to enhance market intelligence for the Indian mobile telecom industry, and is based on current intelligence of the Indian Market. Download here... - Green Power for Mobile
Best Practise Procurement Guide for Green Energy in India - September 2011
This document presents a best practise procurement guide for the mobile telecoms sector in India. The Green Power for Mobile best practise guide is based on current intelligence of the Indian Market. Download here... - Green Power for Mobile
IFC Financial Products for Green Power
By Ian Larsen, published in the GPM Bi-annual Report June 2010. In the longer term, green power has significant potential to reduce a Mobile Network Operator’s (MNO) carbon footprint and slow energy consumption growth. A reliable green power source at a Base... International Finance Corporation Supports Green Power for Mobile
Published in the GPM Biannual Report 2009. The IFC is providing financial support to the GSMA Green Power for Mobile (GPM) programme, to assist mobile operators in exploring the use of renewable power base stations as a means of optimising capital and operatin...
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