DNA Oy (Helsinki, Finland), a Finnish mobile telecommunications service provider, has been operating its base station in Lohja, Finland, powered by wind power since the beginning of 2013. Kiwatti Oy (Söderkulla, Finland), one of the distributors of Zephyr Corporation (Tokyo, Japan), is in charge of system design. This wind power solution is expected to improve the reliability of the power supply even in case of the national power grid’s disruption. Wind power previously has not been made use of in Finland as a part of commercial system for power production, so this is the first and epoch-making action
“Networking is essential to our society, but the power consumption is constantly on the rise. We are actively studying the most
effective way to operate the base stations, and we are also developing the system to provide network access as environmentally friendly as possible. In particular, in the ecological point of view, the ability to generate and store wind energy in the base stations, is very interesting”, says Antti Jokinen, the Production Director of DNA. After the wind solution turns out to be an industrial energy saver and to be a reliable healer under the grid failures, the introduction of wind power for base stations is likely to be extended to a number of DNA’s 3G and 4G mobile networks. The role and contribution of wind power in
telecommunications industry will be larger and larger.
