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20th April 2009: PowerOasis will be speaking at Low Carbon South West in Bath UK on 8th May 2009.

7th April 2009: See PowerOasis at the Green Basestation Summit, Bath UK on 23rd and 24th April 2009. In addition to exhibiting, speaking and participating in a panel discusison, PowerOasis will be hosting a workshop entitled "Building Successful Business Cases for Renewable Power".

11th March 2009: PowerOasis will be participating in a panel discussion entitled "Investigating the Reliability, Cost and Environmental Benefits of Alternative Energy Sources" at the Green Telecom Summit, CTIA, Las Vegas on 31st March 2009.

17th February 2009: Alcatel-Lucent selects PowerOasis's Supervisory System Controller (SSC) for its Alternative Energy Program.

17th February 2009: PowerOasis's Supervisory System Controller (SSC) provides renewable power management for Dialog Telekom basestations as part of the GSMA's Green Power for Mobile programme.

23rd September 2008: PowerOasis announces new Supervisory System Controller (SSC) offering renewable power to telecoms networks across the globe.

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Welcome to PowerOasis

New grid connections are often prohibitively expensive and require long lead times, whilst diesel generators are becoming more costly to run. With the right strategy, rapidly deployed renewable energy for off-grid base stations accelerates an operator’s emerging market growth opportunities, with reduced total cost of ownership and improved environmental governance.

As solar and wind power technology has progressed in recent years, and their cost is falling, they now can be considered as viable supplementary or primary power sources for cell sites in locations with unreliable or expensive grid connections or for where a grid connection is not possible.

The conventional method of providing these locations with electricity is from diesel-powered generators. However, these are relatively expensive, requiring regular maintenance and refills of expensive fossil fuel. Operators are increasingly turning to alternative energy sources as a solution and PowerOasis can support them in making commercial, efficient and environmental decisions as well as in the deployment of a solution.

Projects

PowerOasis has deployed SSCs on wind and solar sites in the Digicel Vanuatu network. The sites are on the main North and South backbones connecting the island chain, handling approximately 60% of Digicel Vanuatu's traffic. Due to site inaccessibility high availability and differential autonomy were key requirements in order to maintain services.

PowerOasis SSCs currently manages the power on Dialog's Phase 1 renewable sites. One existing site is a typical wind and solar site with generator emergency backup in a remote location. The second site is connected to an unreliable grid to not only provide enhanced availability and differential autonomy but also to provide an estimated 20% reduction in site opex by reducing the grid power consumption.

PowerOasis has formed a strategic alliance with AlanDick to provide in-country renewable power installation, commissioning and support services. Both parties are colaborating on a number of opportunities in Africa and South Asia.

PowerOasis is supporting Alcatel-Lucent with their Altenative Energy Programme. A key component of the Alcatel-Lucent approach is the smart integration between the base station and the alternative energy source, and part of this integration is supported by the energy controller equipment. Alcatel-Lucent is testing the power controller from PowerOasis, an innovative UK-based provider of power solutions.

In 2007 PowerOasis worked with the GSMA on their trial site in Namibia for MTC and more recently supports the GSMA's Green Power for Mobile programme and is involved in the GSMA facilitated renewable project  with Dialog in Sri Lanka (see press releases).

The Carbon Trust’s Applied Research grants provide support for the development and commercialisation of technology with the potential to reduce UK carbon dioxide emissions. This project has been awarded support by demonstrating its potential to facilitate the progress of low carbon technology towards large scale deployment.bon technology towards large scale deployment.