Communication Base Station Hybrid Energy Engineering and Technology Major

Can a hybrid system reduce the operational costs of BTS?

In this paper, we presented a hybrid system, which uses renewable energy sources (solar and wind energy), diesel power and the electric grid. This system has been optimized for minimizing the operational costs of BTS, while promising high reliability.

How much energy does a base transceiver station use?

There are approximately 4 million installed Base Transceivers Stations (BTSs) in the world today. A BTS of a wireless communications network consumes 100 watts of electricity to pro-duce only 1.2 Watts of transmitted radio signals. From a system efficiency perspective (output/input power), this translates into an energy efficiency of 1.2% .

Is hybrid energy system a cost-effective option for re-Mote and grid-connected BTS?

According to numerical results, for the use case of the Greek island of Kea, we confirmed that hybrid energy system is a promising, cost-effective option for both re-mote and grid-connected BTSs, via reducing remarkably the total annualized cost of energy system and CO2 emissions.

What is a Base Transceiver Station (BTS)?

The base transceiver stations (BTS) are telecom infrastructures that facilitate wireless communication between the subscriber device and the telecom operator networks. They are deployed in suitable places having a lot of freely propagating ambient radio frequency (RF) and solar energies.

How to optimize a hybrid energy system?

In order to select an optimum com-bination for a hybrid system to meet the load demand, evaluations must be carried out on the basis of power reliability and system life-cycle cost. Recently, several simulations have been performed in order to optimize hybrid energy systems and to fulfill the energy demands of a BTS.

How do hybrid systems work?

The hybrid systems are designed with circuits, simulated, and compared to show their good performance to the base stations. PSIM, PROTEUS, and MATLAB software are used to simulate for evaluating the voltage and the current output of the hybrid systems that meet the power requirements.