TY - GEN
T1 - Solar vs Diesel
T2 - 7th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, ICTD 2015
AU - Ahmad, Talal
AU - Kalyanaraman, Shankar
AU - Amjad, Fareeha
AU - Subramanian, Lakshmi
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2016 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2015/5/15
Y1 - 2015/5/15
N2 - Cellular networks in developing regions continue to rely heavily on diesel for energy to provide network coverage due to the paucity of reliable grid power which directly impacts the network's economic viability and long-term sustainability. At the other extreme, solar powered cellular installations have gained prominence but have faced their own adoption challenges including inability to provide adequate and reliable 24x7 power supply, need for large land footprints and lack of eficient power storage. In this paper, we perform a detailed economic cost analysis comparing diesel powered cellular networks with solar powered cellular networks. The key goal of this paper is to establish the cross-over boundary beyond which solar powered installations are better than diesel powered alternatives. We perform a detailed analysis based on actual diesel consumption data from a large telecom operator in a developing region. Using our model, we can also easily perform an extended analysis based on future projections on solar eficiencies and future cellular network designs.
AB - Cellular networks in developing regions continue to rely heavily on diesel for energy to provide network coverage due to the paucity of reliable grid power which directly impacts the network's economic viability and long-term sustainability. At the other extreme, solar powered cellular installations have gained prominence but have faced their own adoption challenges including inability to provide adequate and reliable 24x7 power supply, need for large land footprints and lack of eficient power storage. In this paper, we perform a detailed economic cost analysis comparing diesel powered cellular networks with solar powered cellular networks. The key goal of this paper is to establish the cross-over boundary beyond which solar powered installations are better than diesel powered alternatives. We perform a detailed analysis based on actual diesel consumption data from a large telecom operator in a developing region. Using our model, we can also easily perform an extended analysis based on future projections on solar eficiencies and future cellular network designs.
KW - Cellular Networks
KW - Diesel
KW - Economic Modelling
KW - Solar
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U2 - 10.1145/2737856.2738028
DO - 10.1145/2737856.2738028
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84955268407
T3 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
BT - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, ICTD 2015
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 15 May 2015 through 18 May 2015
ER -