Deutsche Telekom Energy Solutions

Energy Supply Solutions

• Contracts with power supply companies in 2002 included 5.4 % energy from renewable energy sources and 49.4 % energy from combined heat and power generation.  

Energy Demand Solutions

• Deutsche Telekom achieved the greatest energy efficiency gains in 2002 from optimizing the operation of building technology for switching and transmission technology.  By using the waste process heat generated in the operation of IT technology, Deutsche Telekom was able to replace conventional heating systems (e.g. electrical and oil-gas heating systems) in smaller technical buildings.  Efficiency gains were also achieved by optimizing air conditioning systems.

• Additional energy efficiency gains were also achieved through the deactivation of digital switching equipment modules that were no longer required.  These and other measures contributed to both an increase in energy efficiency and to an impressive reduction in energy consumption of 49.57 GWh in 2002 for T-Com.  They have also enabled an emissions reduction of 26,300 tons of CO₂.

• Deutsche Telekom also uses energy optimization teams at its technical branch offices with the goal to develop, analyze, evaluate and implement energy optimization measures.  These teams have been assigned the task of operating a wide range of technology and equipment as efficiently as possible, from complex heating and air conditioning systems, to communications technology, to the energy-related optimization of office workstations.
  

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