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Telecom networks need to introduce new spectrums and technologies, a lot of new sites, and mobile edge computing (MEC) sinking. Huawei releases the 10 emerging trends in telecom energy in 2025, aiming to provide a reference for operators on site infrastructure construction.
Trend 1: Energy Digitalization
Energy digitalization is crucial in simplifying O&M and reducing site O&M costs. Digital sensing, control, and processing technologies, will have digitalized energy by 2025, making it possible for operators to build simplified, green, and autonomous driving networks.
Trend 2: Increasing the Adoption of Green Energy
To cope with climate change and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations, many global operators have adopted strategies for saving fuel, lower maintenance, zero diesel generators across the entire network, lower carbon emissions, and sustainable development. Although, such technologies require relatively high initial investment, they are gradually becoming favoured by operators for their benefits, such as environmental friendliness, low carbon emissions, maintenance-free, and low electricity costs.
Trend 3: Replacing Lead-Acid Batteries with Lithium Batteries
Lithium batteries are a perfect choice to replace lead acid batteries as the life cycle of lithium batteries is five times and float charge is twice the lead acid batteries; also price may go down in a few years. The peak shaving feature can avoid mains capacity expansion and reconstruction, and elastic electricity price can be staggered to reduce electricity fees, further reducing network construction and operation cost.
Trend 4: Telecom Energy Will Permeate Various Industries with the Introduction of 5G
5G will bring base station devices to various enterprise-level application scenarios, such as ports, mining areas, electric power, transportation, and even colleges, hospitals, and communities. Various application scenarios require more flexible and diversified telecom energy solutions, which drive telecom energy toward being digital, modular, and flexible.
Trend 5: ICT Power Supply Convergence
The popularization of 5G has allowed for informatisation and AI integrations into every facet of society. IT companies have started to use CT communication networks to develop various applications. Telecom energy needs to support the power supply, backup power assurance, heat management, space management, and cabling management of both CT and IT devices, and will also face new challenges in O&M.
Trend 6: AI Collaboration:
The increase in 5G sites and power consumption leads to high O&M and energy costs, hindering the rapid popularization of 5G. AI collaboration technology will be crucial to solving this problem. The application of AI collaboration technology in telecom energy includes AI algorithm modelling to optimize site resource configuration for sliced networks and optimize energy efficiency as well as AI analysis to implement autonomous driving networks.
Trend 7: Full-Stack Simplified
In the 5G era, energy systems from sites to bearer networks and core networks will become increasingly large and complex, requiring simplified deployment and TCO control. In the future, simplified end-to-end and full-lifecycle energy network technologies, such as one cabinet for one site, one blade power for one site, and autonomous driving networks, will be widely applied.
Trend 8: Multi-pattern Architecture
Currently, most power supplies do not support multi-pattern input or output. The multi-pattern architecture features higher system density and efficiency, simpler deployment, and smarter O&M and is expected to be popularized in the telecom energy industry in the future.
Trend 9: Higher Efficiency
The efficiency of telecom power systems is mostly improved at the rectifier level. The rectifier efficiency of mainstream vendors is 90% to 98%. In the future, the maximum efficiency will be further improved from 98% to 99% (translating into 50% less rectifier loss). Operators will pay more attention to the improvement of site-level and network-level energy efficiency. The efficient heat exchange solution and natural heat dissipation solution will replace air conditioners and become the mainstream heat management solution.
Trend 10: Trustworthiness
Diversified power supply and backup requirements, complex deployment scenarios, and digital network environments pose higher trustworthiness requirements on energy networks. Trustworthiness technologies, such as safety, reliability, availability, security, privacy, and resilience, will become the key features of trustworthy energy networks.
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