Friday, June 20, 2014: Solar energy is surely becoming a way of life for all enterprises looking to get economical and green. In the latest, state-run telecom company BSNL is now looking to join hands with Japan’s NEDO for using solar power in the telecom networks. The two are discussing the possibilities of using solar energy to reduce carbon footprints.
According to a press statement issued by BSNL, “Mr (Iwao) Miyamoto, Chief of NEDO in India had a meeting today …With Mr Anupam Shrivastava, Director Consumer Mobility BSNL and explained the support of Japan to India. This falls in line with the directives of the Prime Minister to reduce the dependence on energy by substituting the same with solar power.”
The organisations met in the backdrop of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s trip to Japan. It is worth mentioning here that NEDO (New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organisation) is a semi-governmental Japan based organisation, that was set up with the idea of promoting the development and introduction of new energy technologies. NEDO has joined hands with TERI in India to promote use of renewal energy.
It should be noted that the Indian government has asked the telecom companies to migrate at least 20 per cent of the their towers in the urban area and 50 per cent of all the rural mobile towers to hybrid power, which is mix of renewable energy and grid power, by 2015. BSNL has about 70,000 mobile towers across the country.
