Electricity Monthly Update
Below we look at monthly and annual ranges of on-peak, daily wholesale prices at selected pricing locations and daily peak demand for selected electricity systems in the Nation. The
Setting up a 5G base station is expensive, with costs ranging from $100,000 to $200,000 per site. This price includes hardware, installation, site rental, and maintenance. Urban areas often have higher costs due to land prices and infrastructure challenges.
Peak-valley pricing is adopted to guide users' electricity consumption habits, so that users prefer to use electricity in idle time, which is inconsistent with the operator's base station electricity consumption habits.
When k is greater than 2.85 (Huawei RRU), 4.32 (Huawei AAU), 2.9 (ZTE RRU) and 7.08 (ZTE AAU), the peak-valley pricing is more economical than the flat pricing (y < 0) [3, 6]. When the number of RRU and AAU equipment in the base station increases, the K value needs to be larger to make peak-valley pricing more economical than flat pricing.
For China Mobile and other operators, they can choose one of the two methods of peak valley price or flat price (unified price for each period) through consultation with power supply companies and other institutions.
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