Communications and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said the private sector telecom companies have executed only a small number, around 3,400, of Renewable Energy Technology (RET) projects.
“As per the report of RET Committee, the private sector telecom companies have executed only a small no. (around 3,400) of Renewable Energy Technology projects. The timelines of implementing the directions in respect of powering the mobile towers through hybrid power/ Renewable Energy Technologies+Grid Power are 2015 and 2020,” Prasad told Lok Sabha in a written reply.
The directions said: “At least 50 percent of all rural towers and 20 percent of the urban towers are to be powered by hybrid power (Renewable Energy Technologies + Grid Power) by 2015, while 75 percent of rural towers and 33 percent of urban towers are to be powered by hybrid tower by 2020.”
IANS