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stc Kuwait Aims to Reduce OPEX and Carbon Dioxide

Emissions with Advanced Green Power and Eco-friendly

Solutions

As a leader in the ICT sector in Kuwait, stc
continues to develop and deploy solutions

to reduce the impact of its operations on
environment. stc is also dedicating its efforts
towards implementing environment friendly
solutions through digitization and automation.

Kuwait Telecommunications Company – stc, a world-class digital leader
providing innovative services and platforms to customers, enabling
the digital transformation in Kuwait, announced its commitment to
build on its environmental responsibility role by reducing its carbon
dioxide emissions and operational expenditure through advanced, green
powered and eco-friendly solutions.

With renewable energy expected to be the largest single source of
electricity growth in the next five years, according to the International
Energy Agency (IEA), and based on the vision of His Highness the Amir of
the State of Kuwait, Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, calling
for 15% of Kuwait's electricity consumption to be sourced from renewable
energy by 2030, stc has taken the steps to implement its green power
solutions to reduce carbon dioxide emissions (the most common global
warming gas) caused by generators burning diesel fuel.

Fahad Al Ali With the lack of commercial power at some of stc’s live networks sites,
Chief Technology Officer the Company uses generators as a power supply, which consumes more
than 13 million liters of diesel fuel each year. Additionally, the generators
stc Kuwait also require frequent maintenance which comes at an added cost.

In 2017, stc started planning for green energy initiatives to power its
remote sites to reduce the operating time of diesel generators on the
entire network to save costs and reduce its environmental footprint.
The designs incorporated state-of the-art technology with the latest
generation of the solar-battery-diesel generator hybrid system. The
solution uses solar panels and generators to charge high cycle lithium-
ion batteries to store energy as a main source of power for telecom
equipment in tower cell sites. The generator will only work when the
batteries are fully discharged.

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