Huawei wins global sustainability award with 5G power solution

Huawei's Green 5G Power solution has won the Global Industry Award for Sustainable Impact at this year's ITU Telecom World Awards ceremony in Budapest, Hungary.

Huawei was praised for its outstanding contributions to energy conservation and emission reduction of mobile networks.

Source: Huawei. Huawei's Green 5G Power solution won the Global Industry Award for Sustainable Impact at the ITU Telecom World Awards.

Energy efficiency is quickly becoming one of the biggest concerns for the telecom industry. In 2018 alone, the 10 leading mobile network operators spent

over US$14 billion on electricity, and as 5G mobile networks are only going to require more energy efficiency to deliver on the promise of higher capacities and faster connections, Huawei said.

The ITU's Sustainable Impact award is aimed at highlighting this issue and encouraging enterprises to take action on climate change as one of the most important of the UN's 17 Sustainable Development Goals.
The ultra-lean 5G site solution features a high level of integration, removing the need equipment rooms and air conditioning for site deployment. One watt of electric power can be used to sustain the transfer of more than 5,000 GB of data - this is 10 to 20 times more efficient than 4G. Meanwhile, Huawei's Green 5G Power integrates artificial intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT) into the power system and increases the overall energy efficiency of 5G networks by 20%, so that power consumption for a 5G site can be on par with a 4G site.

Sticking to the core principles of simple, intelligent and green, the Huawei Green 5G Power solution focuses on improving performance of the entire site and network using modular designs of traditional solutions, renewable energy, and intelligent scheduling technology.

PowerStar, the AI-based network-level energy conservation solution, maximises the utilisation of site resources and helps to reduce 5G network deployment times.

To date, Green 5G Power has been commercially adopted in many countries, including South Korea and Qatar.

In Huawei's 2025 Global Industry Vision, the company pledged to slash the per-connection carbon emission by 80% on average by 2025. If achieved, this would make ICT one of the world's most efficient industries in regards to energy use, with the amount of energy being conserved actually higher than the energy it consumes.

Hao Yingtao, President of Huawei's Wireless Site Domain, said: "5G will see a deep coordination between telecom energy systems and wireless systems, making mobile telecom networks more simplified, intelligent, and efficient. Huawei is committed to enabling mobile network operators to build ultra-fast 5G networks and seek green 5G development. Huawei will continue to make innovations to empower the mobile telecom industry to fulfill the sustainable development goals of the United Nations."