Renewable Energy Powered Base Stations, China Mobile, China
China Mobile has one of the world's largest deployments of green technologies to power its base stations. Utilizing solar, wind, and bio-fuels as alternative energy sources, China Mobile had 2,135 base stations powered by alternative energy in 2008 across 25 of its provincial subsidiaries. Of these, 1,615 are powered by solar energy, 515 are powered by solar and wind energy and 5 are power by alternative sources, including hydrogen. China Mobile reports that, in Jiangsu (on Cheniushan Island in the Yellow Sea), a base station powered by solar and wind energy generates enough energy to even provide power for some of the island’s residents.
