Due to the complex terrain and inconvenient transportation in a remote mountainous area, traditional power supply is difficult to cover, resulting in long-term unstable power supply for
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Among the various options for supplying electricity to telecom towers, solar photovoltaic (PV) systems, distributed generation (DG), and battery-based hybrid systems are the most common. Most of the time, these setups have battery energy storage systems to handle vital loads when other power options are unavailable.
Solar PV can offer attractive options for powering telecom towers due to abundance of solar energy in many parts of the world, modularity of PV systems, ease of planning, simple installation and less maintenance (Aris & Shabani, 2015; Hemmati & Saboori, 2016; Priyono et al., 2018; Zhu et al., 2015).
Thus, a grid-based conventional power supply system for telecom towers usually depends on a DG and batteries to provide uninterrupted power during grid power outages (Amutha & Rajini, 2015; Gandhok & Manthri, 2021; Olabode et al., 2021).
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