Application Of Energy Performance Contracting In Telecommunications Companies

Telecommunication companies are the most important pillar industry in the development of our national economy. However, with the rapid development of telecommunication industry and the expansion of network capacity, the energy consumption continues to increase. So, reducing the energy consumption has been the major challenge of telecommunication industry when the government strives for promoting the development of green low-carbon energy and hope to build a resource-saving and environment-friendly society. To align with the promotion of the energy performance contracting, telecommunication companies have put more attention to the application of it in the energy conservation and emissions reduction. In this paper, by utilizing the rich working experiences at telecommunication companies and the research methods such as comparative analysis, survey and model analysis, the business model of applying energy performance contracting mechanism to reduce emission will be introduced in detail. By tracking the process of Jiangsu Unicom’s energy performance contracting project and making the quantitative analysis of the energy saving, the problems in promoting the energy performance contracting among the Chinese telecommunication companies will be summarized and the related recommendations will be provided. Hope this paper would be of great significance to the cooperation between telecommunication companies and energy saving suppliers, and would help people develop the awareness of energy conservation and finally construct an energy-saving society.