Telia moves to majority renewable energy in Denmark and Estonia

Swedish operator group Telia has entered into a couple of ‘Power Purchase Agreements’, which constitutes increasing the amount of wind and solar energy that powers its Nordic and Baltic footprint.Swedish operator group Telia has entered into a couple of ‘Power Purchase Agreements’, which constitutes increasing the amount of wind and solar energy that powers its Nordic and Baltic footprint. Telia has entered into an agreement with Better Energy in Denmark which stipulates that 125 GWh of additional renewable electricity will be supplied to the Danish electricity grid per year, and as part of this agreements Better Energy will build a new solar cell park which will be hooked up within three years. This will supply renewable electricity to Telia’s and Telenor’s joint TTN network, and will represent 75 percent of its power consumption by 2024. Meanwhile in Estonia, another renewable electricity agreement with public energy Company Eesti Energia will see it supply 156 GWh of renewable wind electricity to Telia over five years – representing 70 percent of the power needs of Telia’s fixed and mobile network, server rooms, control centre and offices. “To deliver sustainably and support the transition to low carbon societies, Telia is committed to run our networks and business only on renewable electricity,” said Rainer Deutschmann, Group Chief Operating Officer at Telia Company. “Moving into the PPA space is an important step to achieve that long-term, while providing certainty to both energy producers and us as a buyer.” There’s no mention of how much cash Telia dropped in order to facilitate these energy agreements, however it seems like a tangible and sizable move towards powering its operations though renewable methods, and the firm would appear to have form in this area. In January it launched a pilot in Sweden with energy storage provider Polarium to optimize network energy usage and reduce electricity costs, and it intends to have a ‘climate-neutral value chain’ by 2030.   Get the latest news straight to your inbox. Register for the Telecoms.com newsletter here. Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked * Comment Name * Email * Website Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. Do you agree public funding should be used to support mobile operators to more broadly deploy Open RAN? Telefonica diversifies into IoT security. The inventive boffin arm of Spanish operator Telefonica - Telefonica Tech hhttps://t.co/ofcLhbtF7l 29 June 2022 @ 16:27:30 UTC FCC's Carr says TikTok poses a national security risk, calls for ban. Almost three years after the US first express hhttps://t.co/vrpaRev04a 29 June 2022 @ 15:25:52 UTC 1.3 billion a year lost thanks to broadband outages - survey. Broadband outages effecting home workers have cost t hthttps://t.co/IgNL4MYrww 29 June 2022 @ 11:24:50 UTC