UAE to reduce carbon footprint
Abdullah Ebrahim Al Ahmed, Etisalat business solutions senior VP, says: “The UAE has a significant carbon footprint due to unabated energy consumption that is creating immense ecological, social and environmental pressure.
“The Emirates Energy Star programme will leverage on machine-to-machine based technologies to effectively help reduce the carbon footprint of the country through efficient energy consumption management.”
Through the Emirates Energy Star programme, Etisalat and Pacific Controls aim to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions of the UAE, and the fuel bills of companies by retrofitting existing commercial and government buildings with energy saving control systems and achieving energy savings of 10 to 35%, states Gulf News.com.
According to Zawya. using Etisalat networks and Pacific Controls command control centre, the Emirates Energy Star initiative will optimise their operations, reduce their utilities consumption and service costs, increase the running efficiency of their assets and have the capability to remotely manage them in real time.
Apart from the obvious cost savings for the end user in the form of lower energy utility bills, the Emirates Energy Star programme aims to help decrease pollution, water consumption and waste.
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