{"id":40623,"date":"2020-06-18T07:07:50","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T20:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=40623"},"modified":"2020-06-18T07:07:50","modified_gmt":"2020-06-17T20:37:50","slug":"telstra-carbon-neutrality-mb1568","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/telstra-carbon-neutrality-mb1568\/","title":{"rendered":"Telstra Closes In On Carbon Neutrality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-40624\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/carbon-neutral-telstra.jpg\" alt=\"Telstra carbon neutrality\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/carbon-neutral-telstra.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/carbon-neutral-telstra-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/carbon-neutral-telstra-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/carbon-neutral-telstra-768x403.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A new project involving solar power is about to help take Telstra to the point of carbon neutrality &#8211; but it&#8217;s not in Australia.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Telstra CEO Andrew Penn said on Tuesday the company is expected to be certified as carbon neutral by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.climateactive.org.au\/\">Climate Active<\/a> &#8220;within weeks&#8221; &#8211; an achievement he didn&#8217;t expect until later this year. Climate Active certified Telstra broadband brand Belong carbon neutral last year, the first telco to achieve this status under the program.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Penn says Telstra is in the final stages of signing agreements with two carbon offset organisations, which will take the company to the carbon neutral line.<\/p>\n<p>The first relates to a project leveraging Aboriginal knowledge and skills to reduce greenhouse gases emitted from savannah fires, which apparently make up 3% of Australia&#8217;s total emissions. This involves strategic early dry season fire management as well as late dry season fire suppression across savannah regions in Australia&#8217;s north. A similar (or perhaps part of the same) project was announced as part of the Morrison Government&#8217;s controversial <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/morrison-climate-solutions-mb0952\/\">Climate Solutions Package<\/a> last year.<\/p>\n<p>The second agreement will see Telstra purchasing offsets from a solar power project involving a number of solar farms in India. Why India? Telstra has a significant presence there; with offices and facilities in Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, New Delhi and Maharashtra.<\/p>\n<h2>More Renewables On The Way For Telstra<\/h2>\n<p>Once carbon neutrality has been achieved, Telstra won&#8217;t be stopping there. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/renewable-energy-telstra-mb1433\/\">In May this year<\/a> Mr. Penn also announced a goal of\u00a0 Telstra owning or contracting enough renewable energy generation in Australia and its other locations overseas by 2025 to provide equivalent to 100 per cent of the electricity consumed by the company&#8217;s operations. Given Telstra is one of Australia&#8217;s top energy consumers, we should be seeing more Australia-based renewables projects announced in the time ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Telstra already has a couple of significant Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) in place &#8211; one with the 70MW <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/solar-energy-telstra-mb0060\/\">Emerald Solar Park<\/a> in Queensland and with Murra Warra Wind Farm in Victoria. In terms of self-generation, Telstra\u2019s installations have generally been reasonably small, helping to power infrastructure such as exchanges and tower locations &#8211; but there&#8217;s a lot of them. Telstra has been a pioneer in the use of solar energy, with the first installation occurring in 1974.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Penn believes climate change is the defining challenge of the 2020&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Climate change is a shared challenge that impacts our economy, our environment, our communities and each of us individually,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/exchange.telstra.com.au\/were-close-to-being-carbon-neutral\/\">he states<\/a>. &#8221; If ever there was a moment for bolder and more significant action on climate change it is now.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new project involving solar power is about to help take Telstra to the point of carbon neutrality &#8211; but it&#8217;s not in Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":40624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[678],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solar-battery-news","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.4 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Telstra Closes In On Carbon Neutrality - SolarQuotes Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A new project involving solar power is about to help take Telstra to the point of carbon neutrality - but it&#039;s not in Australia.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/telstra-carbon-neutrality-mb1568\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Telstra Closes In On Carbon Neutrality\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A new project involving solar power is about to help take Telstra to the point of carbon neutrality - but it&#039;s not in Australia.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/telstra-carbon-neutrality-mb1568\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"SolarQuotes Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SolarQuotes\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-06-17T20:37:50+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/carbon-neutral-telstra.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"630\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Michael Bloch\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@solar_quotes\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@solar_quotes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/telstra-carbon-neutrality-mb1568\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/telstra-carbon-neutrality-mb1568\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Michael Bloch\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/66afd571aa00c2e442f0192ebac2f6f1\"},\"headline\":\"Telstra Closes In On Carbon Neutrality\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-06-17T20:37:50+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/telstra-carbon-neutrality-mb1568\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":441,\"commentCount\":1,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/telstra-carbon-neutrality-mb1568\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2020\\\/06\\\/carbon-neutral-telstra.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"General Solar &amp; 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