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T-Mobile Croatia Switching to Wind Power for Rural Base Stations

­Zephyr Corporation today announced that T-Mobile Croatia, through supplier Energyplus, will be using its wind turbines to power off-grid base stations along the Adriatic coast.  more

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Rural Base Stations to Divert Surplus Electricity to Local Communities

The GSMA Development Fund has partnered with Lighting Africa, a joint IFC and World Bank programme, to launch the Community Power from Mobile (CPM) initiative. ­The programme will support and encourage mobile network operators and tower-sharing companies in developing countries to provide excess power generated by their base stations to local, off-grid communities.  more

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Turkcell using wind to power base stations

..lar base stations in developing countries will be solar-powered or wind-powered.  more

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Renewable Energy to Power 4.5% of Mobile Base Stations by 2014

As an ever increasing number of people around the world become connected by mobile communications networks, the challenges to providing electricity to these expanding networks are becoming greater as well. In particular, developing countries are seeing unprecedented growth in wireless subscribers, however many of the base stations in these areas are in remote locales that have limited or no access to grid power.  more

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World Bank Subsidiary to Finance Green Base Stations

The International Finance Corporation (IFC) - the private sector arm of the World Bank Group - is to work with the GSMA to identify and fund renewable energy based base station deployments. The overall goal is to make cost effective renewable energy solutions a widely used power source for off-grid locations by 2012.  more

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Green Telecom Equipment to Represent 46% of Network CAPEX by 2013

Energy consumption is one of the leading drivers of operating expenses for both fixed and mobile telecom network operators. Reliable access to electricity is limited in many developing countries that are currently the high-growth markets for telecommunications. At the same time, many operators have adopted corporate social responsibility initiatives with a goal of reducing their networks' carbon footprints, and network infrastructure vendors are striving to gain competitive advantage by reducing the power requirements of their equipment.  more

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Alcatel-Lucent Opens Alternative Energy Lab for Telecoms Infrastructure

Alcatel-Lucent has announced the operational launch of an alternative energy laboratory and pilot site dedicated to the telecoms sector. Located on its Bell Labs research site in Villarceaux, France, this station forms part of an Alternative Energy strategic program launched by Alcatel-Lucent to respond to the growing demand from wireless operators for energy-autonomous and green wireless networking equipment that can provide communications capabilities even in remote areas with no access to commercial power grids.  more

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Turkish Operator Deploys Wind-Powered Base Station

Turkish mobile network operator, Avea has deployed what it says is the first hybrid wind-powered base station in the country. The new 6kW wind turbine was manufactured by Scottish firm Proven Energy and installed by Turkish resellers Girasolar.  more

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Pannon Commissions Wind-Powered Base Station

Hungary based mobile network, Pannon says that it recently commissioned the country's first wind-powered base station. The village of Kálló in Nógrád County offers suitable wind conditions throughout the year, meaning the wind generator can contribute up to 50% of the base station's power demand.  more

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Telekom Austria's First Wind Turbine-Powered Mobile Phone Base Station

..f all mobile phone base stations in Austria into environmentally friendly wind-powered facilities. Moreover, we will extend this project to the other operating markets of the Telekom Austria Group," continued Nemsic.  more

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