Over the last 2 years, the GPM team have been working hard to populate and track the number of Green Deployments worldwide in order to promote green power and extend mobile beyond the grid. We have aimed to do this by catalysing the deployment of 118,000 sustainable green power base stations which will ultimately cut down carbon emissions by 6.8billion tonnes by 2012.
To help us reach this target, we would like encourage you provide us with the number of deployments you currently have, as well as the total number of planned deployments for 2012. Although, we just need to number for now, if you would like to provide photos or a case study to illustrate your successes, please feel free to include these; it will be accessible via the Google Maps platform on Wireless Intelligence. Your contribution to our tracker will no doubt highlight and showcase your hard work and commitment towards the green power agenda.
We would like to point out, that this includes diesel battery hybrids cycling systems. In our efforts to promote renewable energy and carbon reduction in telecoms, we have come to recognise that whilst they are not a renewable energy source, diesel – battery cycling systems have become common in many networks and contribute greatly to the reduction in carbon emissions. There is a great deal that can be learnt by quantifying these sites and assessing their performance to be able to draw comparisons between system configurations, regional performance and comparison to renewable energy sites.
For this reason, we encourage you to include these (current deployments as well as forecasts) when you send us your numbers. If you have any further questions, please get in touch at greenpower@gsm.org