Telecommunications and Energy Infrastructure Sharing: Technical and Socio-Economic Impact Analysis in a Multi-Operator Environment in Burundi

The sharing of telecommunications infrastructure and power supply equipment is currently an applicable and very common model for grouping signal transmission and reception equipment and their power supply on the same site to ensure coverage of fixed, mobile, Internet and radio and television broadcasting networks. This study consists of producing an inventory of telecommunications and energy infrastructure sharing, focusing on the one hand on analyzing the impacts of active and passive sharing of telecommunications infrastructure from a technical point of view, particularly in terms of legal framework, deployment, coverage and exposure to electromagnetic radiation, and on the other hand on identifying the effects of infrastructure sharing from a socio-economic point of view in a multi-operator mobile telephony environment, by indicating the economic value of the revenue generated as a result of infrastructure sharing. Finally, the results will contribute to identify strategies for ensuring maximum deployment and coverage of the country, and for developing the information and communication technologies (ICT) sector in order to contribute to the digital transformation by digitising services using mobile telephony and the Internet in Burundi.

Impact evaluation of large scale integration of electric vehicles on power grid

As the world witnesses a continual increase in the global energy demand,the task of meeting this demand is becoming more difficult due to the limitation in fuel resources as well as the greenhouse gases emitted which accelerate the climate change.As a result,introducing a policy that promotes renewable energy(RE)generation and integration is inevitable for sustainable development.In this endeavor,electrification of the transport sector rises as key point in reducing the accelerating environment degradation,by the deployment of new type of vehicles referred to as PHEV(plug-in hybrid electric vehicle).Besides being able to use two kinds of drives(the conventional internal combustion engine and the electric one)to increase the total efficiency,they come with a grid connection and interaction capability known as the vehicle-to-grid(V2G)that can play a supporting role for the whole power system by providing many ancillary services such as energy storage mean and power quality enhancer.Unfortunately,all these advantages do not come alone.The uncontrolled large scale EV integration may present a real challenge and source of possible failure and instability for the grid.In this work the large scale integration impact of EVs will be investigated in details.The results of power flow analysis and the dynamic response of the grid parameters variation are presented,taking the IEEE 14 bus system as a test grid system.