BT signs up
British Telecommunications, the UK’s leading telco, has publicly committed to a strategy to reduce carbon emissions. As the company consumes 0.7 percent of the UK’s electricity, this is a significant announcement.
“BT today announced that it has extended its Green Energy contract – one of the biggest in the world - until 2010. Part of its campaign to reduce carbon emissions, the contract will see BT saving the equivalent amount of carbon as that resulting from the electricity consumption of over 300,000 households - roughly the population of Liverpool and Cardiff combined – every year.
Under the terms of the contract, npower and British Gas Business will provide BT with 1 terawatt hour (TWh) of renewable energy and 1.2 TWh of accredited combined heat and power (CHP) per year.
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BTs four-pronged strategy is aimed at carbon cutting by:
- reducing its own emissions including conducting a complete audit of the energy consumption of its data centres
- influencing its supply chain to produce lower carbon-emitting products
- influencing customers by proposing lower carbon solutions
- engaging with its 104,000 strong workforce to reduce their personal carbon footprints and empower them to influence their local communities.”