Greening Optus
We have an extensive plan to reduce our electricity use and carbon emissions.
How We are Tackling Climate Change
Carbon Reduction & Energy Efficiency
For Optus, energy efficiency goes hand in hand with carbon reduction as 95% of our total carbon emissions come from electricity use. Significant growth in network coverage across Australia and increased use of mobiles has increased our energy consumption as we expand capacity through our network, base stations and network facilities. Our strong energy reduction plan, with a number of major energy efficiency projects across our operations, is where we’ll have the biggest impact by making the biggest reductions.
Climate change resilience
The effects of climate change, such as extreme weather conditions, can have a major impact on our services. To minimise disruption for our customers, we’re working on long term solutions to make our network more resilient. Optus champions resilience to climate change and natural disasters through our active role in the Australian Business Roundtable for Disaster Resilience and Safer Communities.
Green ICT
We provide Green Information and Communication Technology (ICT) solutions for our customers. Because we have the scale and expertise, we’re able to run and manage ICT more efficiently than many of our customers could do on their own. Our customers get a cleaner, greener solution and since they don’t need to run their own IT server rooms etc., they substantially reduce their emissions. Some of their emissions are then transferred to us, but this is offset by the total saving.
Case study
Energy-efficient mobile base stations
Our increased energy use in Australia comes from significant growth in network coverage and capacity, necessary to deliver superior experience to our customers. To mitigate our growing energy needs, we’ve been upgrading and converting our base stations to become more energy efficient. Through these upgrades, we’ve improved efficiencies in our base stations during low data traffic times with preliminary results indicating a potential annual reduction of up to 7,200GJ.
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