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FINAL WORD
THE POPULARISATION OF 5G
HAS ALLOWED FOR INFORMATISATION
AND AI INTEGRATIONS INTO EVERY
FACET OF SOCIETY.
electricity price can be staggered to reduce
electricity fees, further reducing network
construction and operation costs.
Trend 4: Telecom energy will
permeate various industries with the
introduction of 5G
Key point: Various enterprise-level
scenarios require flexible power
supply solutions.
5G will bring base station devices to various
enterprise-level application scenarios, such
as ports, mining areas, electric power,
transportation and even colleges, hospitals
and communities. Various application
scenarios require more flexible and
diversified telecom energy solutions, which
drive telecom energy towards being digital,
modular and flexible.
Trend 5: ICT power supply convergence
Key point: ICT convergence requires
diversified power supply solutions.
The popularisation of 5G has allowed for
informatisation and AI integrations into
every facet of society. IT companies have
started to use CT communication networks to
develop various applications. It is clear that
ICT convergence is an inevitable trend. This
transformation raises diversified requirements
for the power supply and backup of the
original sites and equipment rooms. Telecom
energy needs to support the power supply,
backup power assurance, heat management,
space management and cabling
management of both CT and IT devices, and
will also face new challenges in O&M.
Trend 6: AI collaboration
Key point: NE and AI collaborated
modelling achieves optimal TCO for
energy networks.
The increase in 5G sites and power
consumption leads to high O&M and energy
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costs, hindering the rapid popularisation of
5G. AI collaboration technology will be crucial
to solving this problem. The application of AI
collaboration technology in telecom energy
includes AI algorithm modelling to optimise
site resource configuration for sliced networks
and optimise energy efficiency as well as AI
analysis to implement autonomous
driving networks.
Trend 7: Full-stack simplified
Key point: Simplified end-to-end and full-
life cycle energy networks.
In the future, connections will be ubiquitous,
more and more spectrums will be put
into use and sites will be more densely
constructed. In the 5G era, energy systems
from sites to bearer networks and core
networks will become increasingly large and
complex, requiring simplified deployment
and TCO control. In the future, simplified
end-to-end and full-life cycle energy
network technologies, such as one cabinet
for one site, one blade power for one site
and autonomous driving networks, will be
widely applied. This will greatly improve the
efficiency of site deployment and capacity
expansion, simplify energy O&M and achieve
more simplified energy networks.
Trend 9: Higher efficiency
Key point: Rectifier efficiency will be
further pushed to the extreme. Site-level
and network-level efficiency will attract
more attention.
Currently, the efficiency of telecom power
systems is mostly improved at the rectifier
level. The rectifier efficiency of mainstream
vendors is 90% to 98%. In the future,
the maximum efficiency will be further
improved from 98% to 99% (translating
into 50% less rectifier loss). However, the
energy consumption of the entire site
mainly occurs in the power generation
system, temperature control system and
power supply line. Operators will pay more
attention to the improvement of site-level
and network-level energy efficiency. The
efficient heat exchange solution and natural
heat dissipation solution will replace air
conditioners and become the mainstream
heat management solution.
Trend 10: Trustworthiness
Key point: Trustworthiness becomes an
integral part of telecom energy.
AI pushed telecom energy to develop from
isolated sites to energy networks. Diversified
power supply and backup requirements,
complex deployment scenarios and
digital network environments pose higher
trustworthiness requirements on energy
networks. Trustworthiness technologies such
as safety, reliability, availability, security,
privacy and resilience will become the key
features of trustworthy energy networks. n
Trend 8: Multi-pattern architecture
Key point: Against the backdrop of
diversified power inputs and outputs, multi-
pattern architecture will become a trend.
Currently, most power supplies do not
support multi-pattern input or output.
Different energy conversion devices need
to be combined into one system, which
has a large size, low efficiency and multiple
interfaces for maintenance. In addition, the
device cost and O&M cost are high. The
multi-pattern architecture features higher
system density and efficiency, simpler
deployment and smarter O&M and is
expected to be popularised in the telecom
energy industry in the future.
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