Telecom Secretary Aruna Sundararajan on Wednesday proposed setting up a joint task force with the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) to promote green technology in the sector. “It is critical that we should set up a joint task force between the two ministries (telecom and MNRE) to ensure that we work on this together. The incentives that are given to promote renewable energy, the telecom sector should become primary recipient of that kind of incentives,” Sundararajan said at an event of telecom tower industry body Taipa.
“In the new policy, we have already made provision to promote green telecom,” Sundararajan said.
Currently, the energy storage solutions contribute up to 5-gigawatt hours (GWh) towards power consumption by the telecom sector and is expected to grow up to 25 GWh by 2022, according to Taipa estimates.