{"id":1888,"date":"2015-05-05T08:38:38","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T08:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=1888"},"modified":"2015-05-05T08:38:38","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T08:38:38","slug":"tnm-goes-solar-on-transmitters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2015\/05\/05\/tnm-goes-solar-on-transmitters\/","title":{"rendered":"TNM goes solar on transmitters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In order to deal with challenges of electricity outages and contribute towards a greener environment, mobile phone network operator TNM has turned to solar to power some of its base transmitter stations that used to run on diesel.<\/p>\n<p>The transmitters are responsible for providing network coverage for customer\u2019s mobile phones.<\/p>\n<p>TNM Chief Operations Officer Eric Valentine said the switch to solar is helping the mobile operator save between 60 to 90 percent fuel usage per site to service transmitters which are not accessible by Escom power.<\/p>\n<p>A total of nine transmitters have been switched to solar.<\/p>\n<p>Valentine said the solar energy alternative is minimizing TNM\u2019s carbon footprint by reducing on emissions and noise that is generated by the use of fossil fuels.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAre are firm at advocating for environmental sustainability. Realising the carbon footprint that diesel generators create, we decided to invest and switch to smart power through solar energy,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He said with growth in both network and customer\u2019s base, TNM network has been planned and implemented with the needs of community and the environment in mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In order to deal with challenges of electricity outages and contribute towards a greener environment, mobile phone network operator TNM has turned to solar to power some of its base transmitter stations that used to run on diesel. The transmitters are responsible for providing network coverage for customer\u2019s mobile phones. TNM Chief Operations Officer Eric [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1897,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1888\/revisions\/1897"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}