Can ICT Beat CO2?
Daniel Gagné
ITU – Symposium on ICTs, the Environment and Climate Change
May 29th 2012
The Equation
• CO2 reduction enabled via
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▲ Enabling
Effects
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▼ Rebound
Effects
– Virtualization / Dematerialization
– Transport substitution
– Increased efficiency through Smarter systems etc…
• Connecting Communities / Businesses
• Own energy consumption / CO2 emissions
• E-Waste management
• Supply Chain issues
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Positive Outcome
• More Sustainable / Low Carbon Economy
We must create the conditions for a smarter use of ICT solutions, while
relentlessly striving to limit undesired rebound effects
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Using ICT to Transform Tomorrow
2008 Study
ICT is a key enabler of carbon reduction if equipment and solutions are
efficiently designed, deployed, operated, and used
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Our Global Approach
Offering trusted state of the art services
through responsible business practices
To be recognized by customers as Canada’s
leading communications company
Responsible
Procurement
Responsible
Products & Services
Responsible
Operations
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Solutions for a Low Carbon Economy
Green Data centers
• Virtualization
• Cloud computing
Wireless applications
• Telemetrics
• Smart metering
Unified communications
• IP telephony
• Web, video and teleconference
Video applications
• Telepresence
• Video Zone
• Webcasting
Optimizing customers ICT resources sustainably
Moving work to people rather than people to work
Connecting rather than traveling
Managing business remotely and in real time
Improving transport & systems efficiency
Dematerializing through digitalization / virtualization
Web solutions
• e-billing
• e-commerce
Green ICT
Optimization
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Energy consumption
Material consumption
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Costs
GHG
emissions
Env. footprint
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Efficiency
Sustainability
Satisfaction
ICT in Action @ Bell
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Electronic
Billing
• 22.6% of bills sent electronically in 2011
• About 4,100 tonnes of GHG and 33,000 trees
• All other bills on FSC certified paper
Teleworking
• 22,000 employees equipped to work remotely
• Together saving approx. 110 M Km/yr in
• Avoiding up to 20,000 tonnes of GHG emissions
Telematics
• Telematics now installed on 8,000 vehicles
• Saved 2.8 M Litres of fuel in 1st year of service
• Reduced our GHG emissions by 7,777 tonnes
Virtualization
• Decommissioned 664 of our own servers in 2011
• Saving 2.8 M kWh/yr or enough to heat 280 homes
• Reducing our GHG emissions by 159 tonnes
In 2011 Bell has reduced its GHG emissions by 31% compared to its
2003 baseline. On target to reach our 50% reduction goal by 2020.
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Responsible Data Hosting Solutions
• LEED Gold
Facility Design Innovation
• 2012 Green IT award from Uptime institute
• Tier III Uptime certified
• PUE = 1.26
• CUE potentially as low as 0.0037 kg CO2
eq/KWh
• Hydro Power
• Flywheel UPS = NO Lead/acid Batteries
• Kyoto Cooling = Optimized free cooling
• Water/Air cooling systems = Energy saving
• Variable Frequency Drivers in cooling systems
adapting to load
• Cold air containment in aisles
• Drought resistant landscape
• Rain water harvesting and storage
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Responsible Data Hosting Solutions
• Built to Uptime Tier III standard
• PUE = 1.75
• 20 year lease in an Ecologo certified energy
efficient building
• Photovoltaic solar energy harvested on the DC
roof with a 250 kVA capacity
• Partnership for cleaner energy with Markham
District Energy (MDE) that will provide highly
efficient cooling and redundant power.
• Mechanical cooling system of N+1 chillers, heat
exchangers, and pumps where the DC waste
heat will be recaptured to preheat MDE’s heating
clients
• Generators of 8.5mW natural gas capacity
• Dual chilled water sources
• Cold air containment in aisles
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Advancing knowledge on ICT’s
enabling effect
• Project with the MDEIE for Quantifying
carbon reduction enablement of virtual data
centers
• Participant to the ICT-specific Technical
Working Group (ICT TWG) with the CDP to
improve the ICT Sector Module for
disclosure
• Active member of the GeSI Climate Change
Working Group (CCWG)
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Can ICT Beat CO2?