According to the official data released by China Tower, the average power consumption of a single tenant of a 5G base station is about 3.8KW, and each 5G base station consumes about 65 kilowatt-hours of electricity per day.

Calculated according to the electricity price of one yuan per degree, the electricity cost of each base station is about 65 yuan per day, which is more than three times that of a 4G base station. The annual comprehensive electricity cost of a single 5G base station for a single tenant is about 23,000 to 30,000 yuan per year.

The three major domestic operators will have to pay between 16.5 billion and 21.5 billion in 5G base station electricity bills each year. Even after the domestic 5G network is fully popularized by 2026, the power consumption of 5G base stations will rise to 2.1% of the total electricity consumption of the society.

In order to solve the problem of high electricity bills for 5G base stations, Huawei released the latest 5G base station power saving solutions during the 2021 Global Mobile Broadband Forum. Green Site and PowerStar 2.0 can not only improve the network energy efficiency of 5G base stations, but also reduce the energy consumption of 5G base stations, allowing the three major domestic operators to build greener, low-carbon 5G networks.

The Green Site solution can increase efficiency by 20 times, and PowerStar 2.0 can reduce energy consumption by more than 25%, solving the problem of high power consumption for the three major operators.