The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy is conducting an Interaction Meet on Powering Mobile Towers through Renewable Energy on January 13, 2014 to discuss the experiences of use of renewable energy technologies and to draw a plan to accelerated the use of RE for powering mobile towers.
As per MNRE's release on the matter, DG sets installed to power mobile towers account for about 4% of the total diesel consumption during the year 2012-13 requiring about Rs.4,300 crores from the public exchequer towards subsidy.
This initiative to use RE for power mobile towers may be attributed to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) direction to replace DG sets by renewable energy and hybrid systems in urban and rural areas in phased manner with a view to move towards 'Green Telecom'.
While MNRE has supported the use of solar photovoltaic systems to BSNL for use in telecom towers, other mobile service providers have also opted solar PV systems, biomass gasifiers, biogas systems and fuel cell systems to power mobile.
Considering that the initiative, though, in its initial stage has emerged to be quite beneficial, MNRE will conduct the meet with mobile service providers, mobile tower operators and renewable energy service providing companies to work out a plan to accelerate the use of renewable energy systems.
Source: MNRE
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