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Biofuels to Electrify Mobile Phone Base Stations in Rural India
The use of mobile phones is burgeoning in India. However, this is not
true for every Indian city as outside the chief cities, mobile coverage
is dispersed, as there is not even dependable amount of electricity in
most of the parts.
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A major part of India comes under rural segment. This rural India is
either devoid of electricity connections or has a shortage of power
supply that is likely to ruin the coverage expansion plans of mobile
operators in rural India.
Power accessibility in rural India is unfortunate. But by converting
the energy of organic matter into Biofuel, communities in rural areas
could market it to mobile companies that can use it to power their base
stations, which receive and beam wireless signals.
Currently, two experimental schemes are in progress in Nigeria,
Lagos, and Pune in India in attempt to power Global System for Mobile
Communication networks with Biofuel. Globally, over two billion people
use GSM, a digital-standard for cell phones.
GSM Association (GSMA), a development fund, along with mobile
operators Idea Cellular and Ericsson sare now testing a mobile phone
base station powered by Biodiesel.
"Apart from our desire to expand our coverage, Biofuel produces
economic empowerment, because lack of connectivity is directly related
to economic impoverishment," stated Prashanth Donepudi, Project Manager
for Nigerian GSM Association Development Fund, in a statement reported
on February 16, 2007 by scidev.net.
Project's first phase examines the viability of non-edible plant
based fuels, like Jatropha and cotton, is near completion. In the next
trial stage, a supply chain will be established which will use
home-grown crops for producing Bi odiesel to supply power to 5 to 10
mobile phone base-stations in Maharashtra, India.
If the experimental project is successful, GSMA aims to take this
program to other regions of India with Idea.
According to the RNCOS report "Indian Power Sector (2006)", the
Indian government is encouraging foreign players to establish power
generation projects solely based on renewable energy on
Build-Own-Operate basis.
The market research report paints the complete picture of the Indian
power sector and gives a detailed analysis of various parameters like
power generation and consumption, infrastructure (with account on power
plants like NTPC, National Hydroelectric Power Corporation, GMR Energy
Ltd, etc), power transmission, and distribution (with role of private
players like Reliance Energy and Tata Power). The report also discusses
the drivers, opportunities, challenge, and the regulatory framework. The
future outlook of the sector has been discussed in detail for investors.
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