
According to Huawei data on RRU/BBU needs per site, the typical 5G site has power needs of over 11.5 kilowatts, up nearly 70% from a base station deploying a mix of 2G, 3G and 4G radios. 5G macro base stations may require several new, power-hungry components, including microwave or millimeter wave transceivers, field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), faster data converters, high-power/low-noise amplifiers and integrated MIMO antennas. [pdf]

This document stipulates the terms and definitions of green and low-carbon services for communication base stations, the scope of classification for green and low-carbon services for communication base stations, the technical requirements for evaluating green and low-carbon services for communication base stations, indicator assessment methods, and evaluation grading. [pdf]
However, a significant reduction of ca. 42.8% can be achieved by optimizing the power structure and base station layout strategy and reducing equipment power consumption. Overall, this study provides a clear approach to assess the environmental impact of the 5G base station and will promote the green development of mobile communication facilities.
This study presents an overview of sustainable and green cellular base stations (BSs), which account for most of the energy consumed in cellular networks. We review the architecture of the BS and the power consumption model, and then summarize the trends in green cellular network research over the past decade.
Scope: The scope of the entire lifecycle of the 5G base station includes the materials and equipment manufacturing, transportation and operation, which excludes the end-of-life stage. Both a single 5G macro base station and a 5G micro base station are included.
The representation of the mobile network architecture along with the expanded view of the 5G base station has been depicted in Fig. 5. Improving hardware components can contribute toward green networking. It entails reducing BS’s energy consumption by using energy-efficient hardware.
In this study, a single 5G macro base station is equipped with a fully loaded BBU and three AAUs (channel number 64T) and a single 5G micro base station is equipped with a BBU with a 4T baseband board and three RRUs (channel number 4T). Fig. 2. The system boundary of assessing the life cycle impacts of 5G base station.
2.6. Scenario analysis 5G base stations are high-frequency with an average coverage of about 450 m, while the 4G base stations cover an average range of about 1500 m. Taking a 64T64R S111 5G macro station equipment as an example, the power consumption was ca. 3–4 kW, 2–3 times higher than that of 4G equipment (Li, 2019).

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