Business Chief USA February 2019

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operational footprint so it makes it easier
to achieve it. We’re very lucky. We are
a large company, but we have the right
amount of resources addressing sustainability
here.”
One of the challenges Carrol cites
as specific to large-scale renewable
energy is that first time you put the
practice into action. Thus, off-site
research is essential in getting these
methods right. “We’ve obviously been
looking at renewable energy options
for years and years and years. We did
have some onsite solar and we just
knew, because of our scale, that if
we’re going to have a significant impact
we needed to look offsite at the
large-scale renewable energies. We
look at what others are doing and then
try to figure out if that’s something that
could potentially work for us. You do
a lot of research and then bring that
research and those findings home. We
would then start stakeholdering those.
I’d say the biggest challenge is because
you’ve never done it before, you have
to educate a lot of folks on what it is
and how it works and how the mechanics
of it work. What does it mean for
AT&T to go from a relatively small ren-
FACTS
• AT&T’s renewable energy website,
provides an overview of the
deals the company announced
this year and their impact:
Click here for website
• AT&T’s 10x website, which
outlines the 10x goal and includes
case studies of the company
working with customers to
reduce their environmental
footprint: Click here for website
• AT&T’s sustainability reporting
website, which includes the
information from the company’s
annual CSR report: Click here
for website
• The Energy Management issue
brief: Click here for website
ewable energy concern to one of the
largest corporate buyers in the United
States? A lot of education has to be
done, in getting people familiar with
new terminology. I’d say that’s the biggest
challenge; the newness of it all.”
In reference to large scale renewable
energy, AT&T is one of the top
five corporate renewable energy buyers
FEBRUARY 2019