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Prestige International Inc. (Headquarters: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; CEO: Shinichi Tamagami; hereinafter “PI”) is pleased to announce that PI and JERA Co. Inc. (headquarters: Chuo-ku, Tokyo; Global CEO and Chair: Yukio Kani and President, Director, CEO and COO: Hisahide Okuda; hereinafter “JERA”) have started supplying electricity through an on-site solar PPA at the Iwate BPO Fortress, a BPO center opened today, June 3, in Ichinoseki City, Iwate Pref., as part of efforts to achieve zero CO2 emissions from electricity consumption of our BPO centers.
Iwate BPO Fortress and Solar Photovoltaic Carports
PI Group, which operates BPO business under the group management philosophy “To listen to end-user (consumer) inconveniences and troubles, engage in business creation that will lead to solutions, and grow as a company that contributes by providing solutions to social issues through that development,” and JERA, a company driving pioneering zero CO2 emissions efforts in the energy sector, have been considering ways to combine their respective strengths to cooperate in moving toward zero CO2 emissions power consumption at PI’s BPO centers.
Going forward, PI will work with JERA to establish a roadmap to achieve zero CO2 emissions from electricity consumption at our BPO centers, including the gradual introduction of “24/7 Carbon-Free Electricity*” at our BPO centers through JERA Cross, a subsidiary of JERA, to reduce CO2 emissions.
* A name for electricity that emits no CO2 twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year.
We will continue to contribute to the realization of a sustainable society through efforts such as the zero-emission of CO2 in the power consumption of our BPO centers.