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John Schinter: Collaborating with outside groups is an ability to bring in fresh thinkers and an ability to really look at things differently from what we historically have seen.
We've built a very nice relationship with the EDF organization.
One of the projects we launched was complimentary to the water efforts that we're undertaking with the EDF, and we specifically looked at
optimizing not only the water use, but the energy use associated with optimized air conditioning systems and cooling systems, specifically in cooling towers.
We have other relationships that we've used as well, and that's the Rocky Mountain Institute, the city of Chicago, and the Department of Energy.
With the Rocky Mountain Institute, we had the energy retrofit program.
And specifically, we're looking to model and optimize the energy use at a specific building.
And we're hoping to scale this across our enterprise and then also release the results externally.
In the case of the City of Chicago, there's a program that's called The Chicago Retrofit Program.
And they're looking to address 50% of the building in the city of Chicago, and reduce the energy by 20% in key landmark buildings.
We at AT&T were the first to make the commitment. It was a very welcome partnership of the city.
The other one is called the Better Plants, Better Buildings Program with the Department of Energy.
In 2009, AT&T joined with 30 other companies to make a commitment of a reduction of 25% in energy intensity by the year 2019.
The good news is that we at AT&T year to date have already achieved 47% reduction in the energy intensity that we have.
What I'm most proud of, in terms of our energy management programs, is that we've been able to move the needle.
We're talking about thousands of people across thousands of projects.
And we're making real world results and getting bottom line impacts. It's a very exciting feature.