| WINNER - BESTPRAX PRIZE 2011 (SERVICE) |
| Organization |
: Indus Towers |
| Project Title |
: Green Initiatives at Indus Towers |
| Category |
: Green Initiatives |
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| COMPANY PROFILE |
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Indus Towers Limited is an independently managed company offering passive infrastructure services to all telecom operators and other wireless services providers such as broadband service providers. Indus is headquartered in NCR, New Delhi. Founded in 2007, Indus Towers is a joint venture between the three leading telecom companies of India: Bharti Infratel Ltd, Vodafone Essar Ltd, and Aditya Birla Telecom Ltd. |
| Indus Towers was incorporated with an objective to provide shared telecom infrastructure to telecom operators on a non-discriminatory basis. The company’s commitment towards continuous innovation enhances operational efficiencies and results in substantial cost savings for its customers. |
| With a portfolio of more than 110,000 towers, Indus is the largest telecom tower company in the world. It has a presence in the 16 major telecom circles of India. |
| Indus has recently achieved 200,000 tenancies which is a first in the telecom tower industry. |
| Indus has established two state-of-the-art Tower Operating Centres (TOC) to monitor service uptime. The redundancy of each is a step towards Indus’s commitment for highest service levels to the customer. |
| With its vision of transforming lives by enabling communication, the company has contributed significantly to enable wider access, offer affordable services, and propel wireless communication sector towards achieving Government of India’s tele-density goals. |
| With a strong footprint across India and offering scale benefits to its customers, Indus has the following key differentiators: |
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Operational excellence |
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Speed-to-market |
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Green commitment |
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Cost Efficiency |
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| PROJECT SUMMARY |
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| Introduction |
Environment is one of Indus' Values and is the DNA elements of the organization and the Management has clearly expressed its Green Commitment. Unlike many other organizations, we are extremely committed to our values framework. We believe that, as an industry leader, we owe it to the society to take the right actions today which shall get our future generations a safe environment. |
| Green Initiatives |
As of now, Indus has one of the largest portfolios of Green sites in its portfolio amongst all telecom/tower companies. Indus impetus to reduce GHG emission and usage of renewable energy source to power telecom towers derive the CAP (Carbon Abatement Program) in a time frame of 3-4 years. |
Indus Green Value Chain has many facets to drive the above program. It can be classified broadly into 4 parts- Green telecom equipment, Green design of passive telecom sites, through enhanced site sharing and power generation through Green sources. |
| Indus is working with a comprehensive approach by focusing equally on all the possible aspects. |
| Environmental Benefits |
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GREEN ACTIVE EQUIPMENT |
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Significant reduction in power consumption of active equipment from about 2.5kW to below 1kW per BTS |
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GREEN PASSIVE CONFIGURATIONS & EQUIPMENT |
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Indus is investing to ensure that the passive infrastructure equipment is state of the art with highest possible energy efficiency. We are also working on maximizing the buildup of outdoor cell sites which eliminate the need for air conditioners on sites, hence reducing the energy cost by 20-25 %. We are also implementing retro fitment solutions like DC-DG, Free Cooling Unit, Soft Start Inverter, and Fuel catalyst to reduce energy cost. |
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GREEN SHARING |
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Sharing of sites by multiple operators optimized the energy cost significantly. Broadly speaking, 2/3 operator sharing brings down the energy cost by 20/30 percent for the respective operator. Indus believes that its portfolio with higher tenancies helps the environment significantly. |
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GREEN ENERGY SOURCES |
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Indus is focused to bring renewable energy sources like Solar, Wind, Fuel Cell, Natural Gas, Biomass and Geothermal to power telecom towers. A project for deployment of 2500 sites has been initiated; out of which more than 500 sites have been already deployed. Indus has also initiated trials on PNG (Pipe Natural Gas) and LPG (Liquefied Petroleum Gas) based generator to substitute diesel as energy source. |
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