The telecommunications industry is grappling with challenges in securing renewable energy supply, largely due to the limited availability of sustainable green energy sources, said Edotco Group Sdn Bhd CEO Mohamed Adlan Ahmad Tajudin.
“Some of them have an unstable power grid system while some areas do not even have a power grid,” he told Bernama at the Forward Faster Now: Asia and Oceania Summit recently. In Malaysia, businesses can subscribe to Renewable Energy Certificates, benefit from Feed-In Tariff schemes, or install solar panels under the Net Energy Metering mechanism.
“In some of our markets where we operate, solarisation helped Edotco to cut fuel consumption by about 50% and reduce carbon emissions by 49% annually, in addition to lowering our operating expenditure,” he said.