Greentech Lead India: India’s spending on green IT and sustainability
initiatives will double from $35 billion in 2010 to $70 billion in 2015,
according to Gartner.
In 2012, green IT and sustainability spending in India
will total $45 billion, Gartner report “Hype Cycle for Green IT and
Sustainability in India, 2012″ said.
Green IT and sustainability are emerging as key concerns
for businesses, investors and technologists across industries and policymakers
in India. Though many technologies are available, government policies will
eventually drive green IT and sustainability solutions adoption by Indian
enterprises.
As enterprises embrace IT to improve productivity and
drive growth, penetration of ICT infrastructure has been growing rapidly during
the past decade, as has the energy consumption and resulting carbon emissions
of India’s ICT infrastructure.
“A few leading organizations in the country are beginning
to implement green IT and sustainability solutions and to incorporate them into
business operations,” said Ganesh Ramamoorthy, research director at Gartner.
“However, this is through a piecemeal approach that relies more on the hype
surrounding the solutions than on the real benefit of the solution to the
organization’s sustainability and green IT vision”
“Many Indian organizations still lack the strategic focus
that comes with a clear understanding of the core issues and key technologies
that bring about real change in the vision for sustainability and green IT in
an organization,” said Ramamoorthy.
The Government of India has suggested making lower-carbon
sustainable growth a central element of India’s 12th five year plan which
commenced in April 2012. For the first time, the government has introduced a
chapter on sustainable development and climate change.
This will set the tone for future policy initiatives and
regulatory measures from the Indian government that will drive the
implementation of green technologies such as advanced metering infrastructure,
carbon capture and sequestration, intelligent transportation system, solar
energy technology, building integrated PV systems, ecolabels and footprints, combined
heat and power technology, e-waste, distributed power generation, and water
management – necessary to usher in low-carbon sustainable growth.
Apart from the ICT industry, the banking and
financial services, hospitality, manufacturing (such as automobiles),
pharmaceuticals, and other industries that have significant exposure to the
export markets, will also join the green IT and sustainability trend early in
India, the report said. In other industries, addressing energy, carbon,
resource efficiency and sustainable economic development is currently still in
the early stages.
Linking integrated solutions through
resource-efficient technologies and a full range of operational technology in
urban areas and smaller cities will accelerate the development of sustainable
processes and infrastructure in the future.