Cell towers require massive amounts of energy
Its an idea about which you might wonder… why didn’t they think of this sooner? Solar powered cell phone towers are now being constructed in India. The country has 150 million more mobile phone users than the entire population of the United States.
Cell phone networks are not easy on the environment. We’re talking a quarter of a million towers that EACH consume 530 million gallons of diesel fuel each year … in India alone.
Obviously, mobile networks require massive amounts of energy to serve India’s 500 million cell phone customers. So, the country’s Ministry of New and Renewable Energy has made it a mission to green its cell phone networks with solar powered cell phone towers.
News last week broke that the Indian government may mandate replacement of existing cell towers with solar cell phone towers. With the unveiling of a model for the School of Green Energy Technologies at Pondicherry University, the Ministry believes that a move to solar powered cell phone towers would be a significant step towards the country’s renewable energy standard of 20,000 megawatts (MW) of solar power by 2022.
Consider this startling information: if all 250,000 cell towers in India were converted to solar power, about 5 million tons of CO2 would be offset, and over $1.4 billion could be saved in costs!
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The cost of solar power BTS is about 27 lac rupees, Change of battery bank is of 6 lac once in 3 year.Plus diesel back up for 3/6 hours daily for 3 BTS (10 Kw)shared tower. What you saved, will ruin in cost of battery.Capex/ opex wise solar business to cell tower is fullish business. I have results of trail, I can send details of non-use of solar energy if contact on punesolar@yahoo.com.
Promotion of solar energy is going wrong way since 15 years.