China plans to construct over 4.5 million 5G base stations in 2025 while introducing additional policy and financial incentives to support industries expected to shape the next decade, the country's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) announced during its annual work conference.
Previous research has estimated that a single 5G base station will produce approximately 30.2 ~ 33.5 tCO 2 eq throughout its life cycle (Ding et al., 2022; Guo et al., 2022a). Consequently, the carbon emissions from 5G base stations in China in 2021 amounted to approximately 49.2 MtCO 2 eq.
5G base stations are categorized into micro base stations, macro base stations, and indoor sub-systems based on their transmit power and coverage. As 5G operates at a higher frequency than 4G, its coverage capability is lower and the signal penetration is poor, causing significant signal attenuation.
In terms of energy consumption, 5G base stations require continuous operation and stability, which leads to significant electricity consumption (Guo et al., 2022a). This power is mainly supplied by transmission equipment and auxiliary equipment, such as transformers, UPS power supplies, and cooling equipment.
From the analysis, it was noted that, at pan India level, rural telecom towers are powered only for about 13.5 h per day through the grid as compared to 20 h per day in metro cities (NITI AAYOG, 2015). About 70% of all telecom towers have less than 12 h per day of electricity supply from grid (GSMA & IFC, 2011).
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The electricity demand of telecom sector is continuously growing and at the same time, dependence on alternative options to supply electricity (majorly DG) is also increasing due to non-availability of reliable electricity supply from grid in all the places (Avikal et al., 2020, 2021; Kaur et al., 2020; Scamman et al., 2015a).
The explosive growth of mobile data traffic has resulted in a significant increase in the energy consumption of 5G base stations (BSs).
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However, this technological leap comes with a substantial increase in energy consumption. Compared to its predecessor, the fourth-generation (4G) network, the energy consumption of the 5G network is approximately three times higher .
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