We’re pleased to announce that all telephone calls made through Glide are now carbon neutral. The UK telecoms market has been slow to reduce its carbon footprint but here at Glide we felt that we should be leading the way – not following. There is currently no greener way of making calls in the UK.
We’ve drastically reduced our power consumption and reduced our carbon footprint by offsetting the power that we do use to carry calls across the network. Even in the current economic climate the green agenda is extremely important to our customers. Students and young professionals like to make sure that their lifestyles are as environmentally friendly as possible and a key objective of many of our business customers is trying to reduce their carbon footprint.
Carbon credits have been purchased from two projects – a Wind Power Project in India and the Sichuan Province Hydro Power Project in China. The wind project is similar to the Jamnagar Wind Power Project in India and involves the construction of a number of new wind turbines which helps to reduce India’s reliance on fossil fuels for electricity generation by providing renewable energy. This project will provide reliable, renewable power to the electricity grid and will directly benefit nearby villages through the provision of local employment.
The Sichuan Province Hydro Power Project bundles four small run-of-river hydro power stations and displaces electricity that would otherwise have been generated by fossil-fuel power stations. The project brings benefits besides that of climate change mitigation, including job creation and helping to address the shortfall of electricity available on the regional grid, with benefits to local households and economic development of businesses as well as providing energy security to the general community.