Environmentally sustainable business

Advanced communications technology can play a significant role in creating a sustainable future - by increasing social and economic opportunities while at the same time reducing environmental impact.

End-to-end energy solutions offering

Nokia Siemens Networks offers the industry’s most comprehensive approach to efficient and sustainable telecoms growth for Communications Service Providers (CSP) of new and legacy telecommunications networks. Nokia Siemens Networks Energy Solutions are designed to reduce network operating costs and lower the power consumption of telecoms networks by exploiting more efficient technology and renewable energy.

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Minimize, combine, maximize

Our target is environmentally sustainable development, which enables a healthy and prosperous market and business environment for our company and for our customers to operate. The welfare of the planet, in addition to being vital for humankind, is also a fundamental prerequisite for safe and positive business development.

To achieve our target, our environmental strategy is to develop, run and enable environmentally sustainable business, which:

  • minimizes our own environmental footprint and helps our customers in minimizing their environmental footprint

  • combines environmental and business benefits for our customers in environmentally sustainable business solutions

  • maximizes the positive environmental impact of usage of telecommunications in society

Making renewable energy the goal

Energy efficiency of Nokia Siemens Networks base station products plays a key role in the use of renewable energy sources for powering base stations. In mature markets, the most common way to provide power to a base station site is by connecting it to the existing electricity grid.

However, in many emerging markets particularly, where mobile networks are expanding into rural areas, an electricity grid may not be available. Also even in some urban areas electricity supply is often unreliable, going off sometimes for many hours a day.

Nokia Siemens Networks has made a clear commitment to use renewable energy sources such as wind and solar power for mobile network solutions:

"A sustainable alternative to power remote base station sites is to use renewable energy sources such as wind and solar power. By 2011, our first choice to power these sites will be renewable energy." Anna Larilahti, head of environmentally sustainable business, Nokia Siemens Networks, in a speech at the Green Forum Industry event in Beijing.

Anna Larilahti, head of environmentally sustainable business, Nokia Siemens Networks, in a speech at the Green Forum Industry event in Beijing.

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