Bharti Airtel Ltd.

Bharti Airtel’s tower arm Bharti Infratel and global telecom body, GSM Association (GSMA) have partnered to develop and promote green technologies for telecom tower infrastructure in the country. Both the companies will be working together to convert 1,000 Bharti Infratel towers into green sites, which will reduce greenhouse gas carbon emissions by almost 11,000 tonnes as a result of the reduced usage of diesel.

Bharti Infratel owns over 33,000 of India’s estimated 400,000 towers. The company has already converted over 10,500 sites to alternative back up power, out of which almost 1,350 sites are now on solar hybrid. It is aiming to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 1.54 lakh tonnes per year by reducing diesel consumption by 58.17 million litres per year.