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May 01, 2008

Averox Telecom Services Portfolio Goes Green

By Anuradha Shukla, TMCnet Contributing Editor


Averox has reportedly added the provision and installation of wind and solar powered generators for telecom base stations to its telecom services portfolio.
Salman Mahmood, Averox’s president and CEO explained that their company has been providing telecom services on a turnkey basis for some years to mobile operators to enable them to rapidly deploy base stations.

Averox has significant experience in telecom services and is pleased that they can now offer to provide, install and maintain wind and solar powered generators for base stations as part of their expanded portfolio.
 
Mahmood pointed out that several telecom base stations are located in remote areas of emerging countries where electricity is either not available, is not reliable or is very expensive.
 
Earlier, this required the use of diesel generators to provide power to the base station, which is expensive and required regular visits by telecom engineers for maintenance and refueling.



 
With wind turbines and solar panels energy can be generated independently without the need for diesel generators or expensive maintenance. They can also generate revenue from the excess electricity produced, which can be sold to the local utility.

Mahmood further explained that the power demand of base stations accounts for about 90 percent of the energy requirements of a mobile network. Because wind generator equipment is cheaper than diesel generators to buy and install, the lowered investment cost and the increased prices of fossil fuels improve the business case for utilizing renewable energy sources.

Averox believes that due to these factors plus the environment friendly benefits of renewable energy, renewable energy will be the first choice for remote base station sites as early as 2009.

The company expects that a base station powered by renewable energy sources should be able to recover its installation costs after two to four years, in a good sunny or windy location, as a result of the combination of lower energy costs and revenue from selling excess power to the local utility.

Anuradha Shukla is a contributing editor for TMCnet, covering call centers, CRM and information technology. To see more of her articles, please visit her columnist page.
 
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