The Green Power for Mobile (GPM) programme, through its partnership with the International Finance Corporation (IFC) is publishing its second bi-annual report summarising the developments within the programme and the sector.

Published twice a year, the report provides operator case studies, vendor points of view, interviews and technology analysis.  Richard Lord, CTO of Altobridge, a leading vendor of network equipment for remote network deployments in the developing world, has contributed to the 2nd report which features:

• Financing solutions from the IFC for renewable energy networks
• Case studies from Bharti Infratel and Zantel Tanzania
• An energy efficient, solar base station solution from VNL
• A summary of the key findings of recent GSMA research; ‘Community Power: Using Mobile to Extend the Grid’
• A detailed report on the future of powering mobile networks, by Richard Handford, a freelance journalist for the Financial Times, Wall Street Journal and The Economist

Click here to view / download original report

Note: the GMP team continue to track progress that the industry is making towards reaching the GPM target of powering 118,000 new and existing off-grid base stations in developing countries using renewable energy by 2012, via the Green Deployment Tracker.  This database is hosting information on over 9000 live renewable energy base stations worldwide.