Each year, the network's carbon footprint is independently assessed by a company called Greenstone Carbon Management who looks at electricity bills and volumes for the amount of energy used in transporting minutes across the network. The CarbonNeutral Company offsets this carbon footprint, via carbon credits, with very 1 tonne of CO2 ‘neutralised’ by 1 tonne which is saved somewhere else in the world by a climate friendly project that would not have happened without carbon credit investment.

Projects that our carbon credits are being used on include the Sichuan Province Hydro Power Project in China and a Wind Power Project in India, similar to the Jamnagar Project (starts late 2009).

How has Redstone achieved this?

Redstone's commitment to reducing carbon emissions began with the adoption of IP based soft-switching in our core network, with the expectation of reducing energy consumption per minute by 30% within the first year. Soft-switching has allowed us to move from a power-hungry hardware infrastructure to a more software driven environment which uses far less power. Continued investment in this technology has enabled us to reduce the mean power consumption per minute carried each year, even as call traffic has increased over the same time.

Now the combination of much lower annual power consumption with our carbon offset programme means that our customers and channel partners are using the greenest network in the UK.

Find out more by downloading our Green Minutes FAQ.

Carbon Offset Projects

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