Visibility study of Optimized Hybrid Energy System Implementation on Indonesia’s Telecommunication Base Station

The usage of renewable energy in Indonesia's industrial must be done faster in order to meet the national target of renewable energy usage, but until now the implementation has not been as expected. Especially for the telecommunication industry where 60% of its expenditure is the cost of energy, the implementation of green telecommunication is very helpful in making efficiency while making efforts to protect the environment. On this paper, authors will analyze several constrain for Indonesia's telecommunication operators in implementing the hybrid energy system as a source of electrification throughout their entire BTS network. The hybrid referred to in this paper is the addition of the on-grid solar panels and also optimized by adding wind turbines to areas that have proper wind speeds to existing sources of electrification. Furthermore, the role of government will also be analyzed in-depth, because without it, the conversion process to renewable energy will not succeed. Design, calculation, and sizing for the optimized hybrid energy system is the major part of this study. Hopefully, this study can find the optimized balance between an investment that operators must spend and government incentives or subsidy, so the cost of electricity for this implementation will be reasonable and profitable for the operators.