T-MOBILE
We speak to Chad Wilkerson , Director , Sustainability & Infrastructure Sourcing at T-Mobile regarding the telecommunications giant ’ s ambition to use 100 % renewable energy for all its operations in three years ’ time …
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-Mobile has an ambition : the telco giant aims to be using 100 % renewable energy for all its operations by 2021 . As sustainability dominates the thoughts of many industry leaders as well as their clients and customers , for a company as large and expansive as T-Mobile , which covers manufacturing , IT , construction and much more , ambitions as bold as these require an agile and strategic approach that will cause as little disruption to its day-to-day operations as possible . Chad Wilkerson , Director , Sustainability & Infrastructure Sourcing at T-Mobile , is the man entrusted with delivering this program – we caught up with Wilkerson at his Dallas office to find out more .
“ I get to lead a great team of people that are doing things differently in energy sustainability across T-Mobile ,” he explains . “ With RE100 and our commitment to be powered by 100 % green energy by 2021 , we ’ re not just buying green energy , but taking a whole systems approach to sustainability . For example , we ’ re working to make sure our operations are as energy efficient as possible , we ’ re working to decrease our carbon footprint and we ’ re supporting third parties like the Nature Conservancy to promote a low-carbon , clean energy future . Our goal is to make an impact on the whole sustainability realm – and lead the wireless industry in this area . At T-Mobile we want to make the biggest impact we can , not just in the environmental space but really , in every – thing we do – that is the Un-carrier way .”
DECEMBER 2018