(Reporter Chen Zhou) In recent years, with the intensification of climate change, the greenhouse effect is remarkable, in June 2020, a Siberian town in the Arctic Circle actually reached a high temperature of 38 ° C, and the Arctic seems to have summer? In addition, the global average temperature is also rising year by year, sea levels are rising, the area of coastal areas with low altitudes such as Bali and Maldives is gradually shrinking or even disappearing, and how to protect our planet has become a common problem in climate governance around the world.
China has also joined the army of emission reductions, proposing a "double carbon" goal, planning to achieve "carbon peak" by 2030 and "carbon neutrality" by 2060. As the "vanguard" of the "double carbon" policy, how should operators take the road of green development in the new year?
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has steadily promoted the green and low-carbon transformation of the industry
At the recent national industrial and information technology work conference, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology stressed that in 2022, it is necessary to grasp six key tasks. It mentions the implementation of the carbon peak action in the industrial field and the steady promotion of the green and low-carbon transformation of the industry. Vigorously develop green manufacturing, and carry out green and low-carbon technologies and product demonstration applications. Implement industrial energy efficiency and water efficiency improvement programs. Resolutely curb the blind development of the "two supremes" project. It is necessary to do a good job in the work at the end of the year and the beginning of the year, continue to do a good job in normalizing epidemic prevention and control, strictly and carefully supervise the safety production in the fields of civil explosions, and do a good job in radio, emergency communications and network security guarantees.
In recent years, 5G network coverage, communication operators to establish 5G base stations, large data centers, etc. are traditional energy consumption households, how to meet the needs of users, but also to achieve green communication? The green development path of operators has become a key link in the national double carbon target.
Operators promote energy conservation and emission reduction
The industry generally believes that it is necessary to strengthen the cooperation between 5G technology and the dual-carbon vertical industry, use digital 5G technology to promote energy conservation and emission reduction in related industries, and make the development of 5G an opportunity to achieve the goal of double carbon.
China Telecom, China Mobile, and China Unicom also issued the "1236 Action Plan", "C2 Three Energy "Double Carbon" Action Plan", "Double Carbon" and 14th Five-Year Action Plan in 2021, the launch of these action plans has prompted the industry to re-examine the existing energy-saving work model, while also broadening the cooperation opportunities between the three major operators and various fields in the 5G industry in green and low-carbon, and is expected to create more relevant scenarios.
In addition, Huawei, an industry vendor, also released the "Green 5G White Paper", which proposes 8 major technical directions for green 5G, including: RF to multi-antenna, equipment to ultra-broadband, site to minimalism, whole station to linkage, network to intelligence, service bearer to high standard, full life cycle to circular economy, and so on.
Another manufacturer, ZTE, further reduces carbon emissions in the upstream manufacturing process, base station product innovation link, network construction link, network operation stage, relying on 5G +AI technology, independently developed high-performance chips, the introduction of clean energy and efficient background technology, and the use of intelligent algorithms to rationally dispatch and distribute business.
Cloud-network integration layout of green intensive new infrastructure
From the perspective of traditional hardware, 5G devices consume more energy than 4G devices, which is an indisputable fact, so it can only be considered to start debugging from the perspective of "software".
For example, China Telecom has actively promoted the development of Tianyi Cloud through cloud-network fusion technology, further improved the "2+4+31+X+O" cloud and big data center layout in accordance with the construction requirements of the national integrated big data center hub node, and built a new green and intensive information infrastructure.
In addition, operators are also promoting double-carbon energy conservation through "co-construction and sharing". In 2019, China Telecom signed the "Framework Cooperation Agreement on 5G Network Co-construction and Sharing" with China Unicom to jointly build a 5G access network nationwide; subsequently, China Mobile and China Radio and Television also announced the joint construction and sharing of 700M networks.
In addition, with the independent control of key technologies such as photovoltaic, UHV, and wind power generation, many operators' newly built base station machine rooms have begun to use photovoltaic power generation as the main energy supply. As Ma Hongbo, president of Huawei's wireless network SRAN product line, said, the related technologies generated by green 5G networks will gain better development opportunities under the pressure of carbon reduction "red lines".
Finally, the development of new technologies such as the popular "metacosm" and artificial intelligence can also better create core algorithms for energy conservation and emission reduction, rationally use environmental protection monitoring data, further improve energy conservation effects, and apply new technologies to energy-saving green industries.