According to the [Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)], light trucks account for 62% of greenhouse gas emissions,” said Dan Murray, VP at Kentrox, in a recent Telephony Online article series by journalist Carol Wilson. “If a large wireless provider with a fleet of 1000 trucks was able to eliminate three truck rolls a week, which would represent a savings of 3.3 million pounds of carbon dioxide emissions.”
On the heels of the president’s initiative to extend broadband services to the most rural areas of the nation combined with the push for green-centric services, organizations must be concerned with fuel consumption and associated emissions expended when deploying technology on a multi-site national or international scale.
The Current State of the Industry
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics discovered that the typical 20-gallon-tank work van averaging 18 miles/gallon burns on average of nearly 692 gallons of fuel per year and emits 9.29 grams per mile of carbon monoxide.