China Mobile launches green and energy-saving 5G base stations: reducing energy consumption by more than 20%

Green and low-carbon sustainable development is the main direction of development, and the mobile communication industry has made many innovations in order to save energy, reduce consumption, and improve network energy efficiency.

Recently, China Mobile Anhui Company innovatively adopted a hybrid power supply system consisting of solar photovoltaic power supply and integrated energy cabinets to create the first green and energy-saving 5G base station in the province. The base station is located in Lu'an, Anhui.

The new system can effectively utilize solar photovoltaic green energy, achieve three power supply guarantees of solar energy, AC power supply, and battery, accurately match different electricity consumption scenarios, provide safe and stable power supply resources for base stations, and greatly reduce the operating costs of base stations. China Mobile stated that on the basis of meeting the growing electricity demand of devices, the energy consumption of a single site is expected to be reduced by more than 20%, achieving the goal of green development while saving energy.

China Mobile released the "White Paper on Energy Conservation Technology for 5G Base Stations" on August 28th. Starting from the needs and goals of 5G base station energy conservation, it focuses on the three major technical fields of device level, site level, and network level energy conservation, proposes corresponding technical requirements and application scenario suggestions, as well as the overall roadmap requirements of China Mobile's 5G base station energy conservation technology, in order to reduce base station power consumption, achieve a more green, efficient, and sustainable development of 5G networks, Meet the requirements of 5G development and network operation.

Li Yusheng from China Mobile Design Institute introduced that 5G energy conservation needs to be considered from two aspects: first, integration, which involves the integration of power supply, air conditioning, and other infrastructure with the main equipment. From scheme to engineering design, and then to the entire deployment, integration should also be considered; The second is collaboration. After years of development, the energy saving potential of infrastructure has been fully tapped. The next step is how to achieve collaboration between systems and between energy facilities and businesses.