{"id":1397,"date":"2012-04-04T07:33:21","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T07:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gsmassociation.co.uk\/newsroom\/?p=1397"},"modified":"2025-11-12T15:06:01","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T15:06:01","slug":"telefonica-germany-identifies-e1-8-million-per-year-of-energy-savings-with-gsma-mobile-energy-efficiency-optimisation-pilot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gsma.com\/newsroom\/press-release\/telefonica-germany-identifies-e1-8-million-per-year-of-energy-savings-with-gsma-mobile-energy-efficiency-optimisation-pilot\/","title":{"rendered":"Telef\u00f3nica Germany Identifies \u20ac1.8 Million Per Year of Energy Savings with GSMA Mobile Energy Efficiency Optimisation Pilot"},"content":{"rendered":"

4 April 2012, London:<\/strong> The GSMA today announced the successful completion of the first Mobile Energy Efficiency Optimisation project with Telef\u00f3nica Germany and Nokia Siemens Networks\u2019 Energy Solutions. Telef\u00f3nica Germany participated in the GSMA\u2019s Mobile Energy Efficiency (MEE) Benchmarking service, which helps mobile operators lower their energy costs and carbon footprint by benchmarking network energy efficiency, and over the past three years has improved network energy efficiency by 14 per cent per connection. Keen to improve its energy efficiency further, Telef\u00f3nica Germany signed up to the GSMA\u2019s MEE Optimisation service, which identified an additional cost saving potential of \u20ac1.8 million per year.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are delighted that this collaboration with Telef\u00f3nica and Nokia Siemens Networks is a success and look forward to achieving the identified savings,\u201d said Gabriel Solomon, Head of Public Policy, GSMA. \u201cThe GSMA is focused on replicating this success with other networks around the world as we increasingly see that energy efficiency is a strategic priority for mobile network operators globally.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAt Telef\u00f3nica we are fully committed to improving our energy efficiency and have defined public improvement targets and dedicated efforts for over a decade to this area, as part of Telef\u00f3nica Group\u2019s energy and carbon strategy,\u201d said Gabriel Bonilha, Head of Energy Efficiency, Telef\u00f3nica Group. \u201cBeing a MEE pioneer has helped us to quantify the opportunity ahead of us and this optimisation exercise, supported by the GSMA and Nokia Siemens Networks, is an important step in seizing that opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWorking with the GSMA and Telef\u00f3nica helped Nokia Siemens Networks to understand and provide innovations and high quality solutions to enhance energy efficiency in Telef\u00f3nica\u00b4s Mobile Broadband business,\u201d said Nestor Gonzalez, Head of Sales, Global Services, Nokia Siemens Networks. \u201cIncreasingly we see an ever greater convergence between good energy efficient performance and eco-sensitive design which helps to reduce the carbon footprint of telecommunications equipment.\u201d<\/p>\n

Launched in 2011, MEE Optimisation is a follow-on service from MEE Benchmarking that develops action plans for mobile operators to reduce network energy costs and greenhouse gas emissions. It identifies energy-saving measures and assesses the business case of each measure, enabling operators to implement cost-effective solutions. This first MEE Optimisation pilot comes at a time of increased global focus by operators on improving energy efficiency and reducing carbon emissions, and growing interest by political stakeholders, in particular the European Commission, on emissions reduction in ICT and in the rest of the global economy.<\/p>\n

Energy efficiency measures that Telef\u00f3nica Germany identified:<\/h3>\n