NAFA And SCTE/ISBE To Coordinate Fleet Management And Energy Consumption In Cable Industry

On October 3, NAFA and The Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE) announced the signing of an agreement in principle designed to increase energy efficiency in vehicle fleets of NAFA members and cable system operators.

Once a formal agreement is finalized, the two organizations will promote professional development and standardization of operational practices in the fleet management field, and will work together to develop new training and benchmarking material that can help to identify and remedy inefficient practices.

"Our two associations share a common vision of reducing energy consumption in our members’ vast fleets of vehicles," said NAFA Chief Executive Officer Phillip E. Russo, CAE.  "This collaboration will enable us to provide real benefit to the cable industry and the communities it serves by paving the way for the institution of procedures -- including our Sustainable Fleet Accreditation Program -- that can reduce fuel consumption, costs and emissions."  

"Clearly, no organization has as much experience as NAFA when it comes to managing fleet," said Chris Bastian, Senior Vice President and Chief Technical Officer of SCTE.  "By collaborating more closely, we can expand the impact of our current inventories of training and best practices, and can draw on each others’ experiences to create new opportunities to achieve our energy efficiency targets."

The establishment of more efficient fleet practices and expanding beyond its already published SCTE 225 2015: Cable Operator Fleet Maintenance and Vehicle Selection Operational Practice are among the goals of the SCTE/ISBE Energy 2020 program. Energy 2020 brings together cable operator and vendor expertise to create alignment on standards and operational practices, to drive design and implementation of equipment, and to create SCTE/ISBE training resources that will enable workforce teams to optimize technology for maximum efficiency. Energy 2020 is targeting double digit percentage reductions by the end of the decade in power consumption on a unit basis; energy costs on a unit basis; grid dependency; and optimization of the technical facilities and datacenters.

More information on the SCTE/ISBE Energy 2020 program is at http://www.scte.org/energy.

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