Nokia started the first-ever base station with water cooling. It heats buildings

On December 10, 2018 Nokia announced start as the company claims, the first-ever base station with water cooling. The technology has several advantages in comparison with analogs: it allows to heat buildings, cuts down expenses on energy consumption and also provides decrease in emissions of a carbon dioxide gas on value to 80%.

The first such base station earned in one of multi-storey buildings in Helsinki. Nokia developed the equipment, and the cooling system by means of liquid was created by the developer of energy technologies Efore. The Finnish telecommunication operator Elisa was responsible for commercial implementing solution by request of VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland company.

Nokia started the first-ever base station with water cooling. It heats buildings

In the press release it is reported that liquid cooling replaces operation of conditioners and fans thanks to what power saving is provided (the 30 percent prize for clients is stated), service life of the equipment raises and less noisy work is reached it.

Warmly, which proceeds during operation such base station, it is possible to use for heating of premises is and is implemented the building by request of VTT Technical Research Centre.

This first commercial implementation will allow us to understand real advantages of technology to clients, such as Elisa, upon transition to a 5G, and to learn how it is possible to implement a system in wider scale to help to reduce impact of information and communication technologies on the environment — the head of group on work with Elisa company in Nokia Pekka Sundström said.

According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), ICT is one of the industries having the most considerable impact on change of world climate. Emissions of CO2 started over again growing in the countries with developed economy, despite the strong growth of volume of solar and wind energy, report in IEA.^[1]

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