Update on the rising cost of power...

I am interested to see that the rising cost of power has become a political issue here in Australia as the government desperately try and separate the rising prices of electricity that are due to the cost of "post and wire" renewals and that which the carbon tax is going to cause (actually the carbon tax impact is minimal just now but may rise in the future as subsidies fade out).  Interesting to see just how much power has gone up recently and I would really like you to look at your networks power bill now and compare it to what you were paying 5 years ago - with more pain yet to come

In one of my recent blogs I went over some of this: http://telcotom.blogspot.com.au/2012/06/rising-cost-of-power-one-of-subjects.html - while I would like to claim it was my blog that started all this political uproar I think thats over inflating my readership just a bit!!

What is clear though is that one thing this political bun fight will not do is turn back the tide of rising electricity costs - so wireless and mobile operators here are still faced with rising power costs at a time they are trying to reduce costs.   Thats why it makes even more sense to deploy energy saving technology right now - the longer you wait the more money is getting burnt.

Our business partners in this sector, Orun Energy have just posted some fantastic results from case studies - not results from a lab but real sites, single and multi operator sites and the power cost savings are impressive - see : http://orunenergy.com/case_studies.html .  Bear in mind for suitable customers we can retrofit your network at no CAPEX cost to you and it becomes compelling.

As I concluded my previous blog if there was a way of installing a network wide solution that not only made the sites more efficient but reduced their power consumption drastically (over 80% certified on diesel sites) and that solution came at no cost in capex - then wouldn't you as a wireless or mobile network operator want to deploy it?

In actual fact the question really is:  "faced with rising power costs can you really afford not to deploy it?"