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HP powers up solar system in San Diego »

HP and SunPower announced the completion of a 1.1 megawatt solar-electric power system on the roof of HP’s printing technology R&D facility in San Diego.
Under the deal, first made public last December, SunPower will install its SunPower T10 Solar Roof Tile commercial roof system on behalf of GE Energy Financial Services, who will own […]

Major Asian carriers snub Carbon Disclosure Project 2008 »

More than half of the Asian companies listed under the telecommunications services category failed to respond or chose not to respond to the 2008 Carbon Disclosure Project, which asks leading global corporations to disclose their emission levels and strategies.
More than 3,000 companies across different industries were sent questionnaires as part of this year’s CDP – […]

Google and GE form alliance to upgrade US electric grid »

A new alliance between Google and GE is looking to advance the US electricity grid in order to support emerging renewable energy deployments. The companies announced at Google’s Zeitgeist conference that they will work together to develop both technology and policy initiatives to facilitate additional capacity and capabilities on the electricity grid.
The companies said the […]

GSMA launches renewable push for off-grid sites »

The industry body representing mobile operators globally has launched a new programme with the aim of powering up to 118,000 new and existing off-grid base stations in developing countries with renewable energy sources by 2012.
While focused primarily at operators in emerging markets with poor or limited power grids, the Green Power for Mobile programme, […]

Pakistan’s Warid deploys Huawei’s solar-powered base station »

Huawei Technologies announced that Pakistani telecom operator, Warid Telecom, has deployed the country’s first solar powered BTS site using Huawei’s Solar Powered Macro Base Station.
According to Huawei, the solar powered base stations will be deployed in remote areas with limited access to the electricity grid.
Warid Telecom chose to use Huawei’s Solar Powered BTS due to […]

Join Green Telecom at the CommsDay Melbourne Congress »

The CommsDay Melbourne Congress, co-organised by CommsDay and Green Telecom, and featuring a full day of speakers on sustainable telecoms practices, climate change opportunities and green infrastructure solutions, will be held on 30 Sept - 01 October at the Langham Hotel, Southbank. Sponsored by industry leaders, including Huawei Technologies, Alcatel-Lucent, Hatteras Networks, Juniper Networks, BearingPoint, […]

AT&T’s role in EPA’s Energy Star for data centre study »

As one of the participants in the US Environmental Protection Agency’s Energy Star for Data Centre study, AT&T is no stranger to the greening of IT. But when it comes to defining what is green, Rick Felts, AT&T’s senior vice president, Information Technology Operations, prefers to choose his words carefully. In this exclusive interview with […]

Green Telecom special report: Start up, VNL, introduces re-engineered, low power GSM system »

VNL, a Swedish and Indian start-up headed by an ex-Ericsson executive, Anil Raj, claims to have re-engineered the GSM network architecture to support cheap and ultra low power base stations for extending coverage to rural areas.
The systems, called WorldGSM, is a result of four years of development and includes a solar powered solution for roof […]

How Intel measures its environmental performance »

As the world’s biggest manufacturing of computer microprocessors, you can say that Intel is at the heart of the information revolution. Throughout the years, the company has managed to reduce the energy consumption of its chips in the market place, but can its own efforts to reduce emissions compete with the global demand of its […]

IBM to build $360m flagship green data centre »

Big Blue, and now Big Green, IBM, has unveiled plans to build a US$360 million data centre at its facility in Research Triangle Park in North Carolina. The company will renovate an existing building at the site to create “one of the most technologically advanced and energy efficient data centres in the world.”
“The new data […]