Press Release, News By far the most common energy source for
remote, off-grid base stations for mobile telecommunications is
diesel generators - a solution that presents a number of
economic, logistical, and environmental challenges. Thus, demand
for reliable, non-diesel-based energy sources for such
facilities is growing. Though this market is small when compared
with grid-tied base stations, so-called "green base stations,"
which utilize renewable, battery, and fuel cell technologies,
are starting to see real market traction. According to a new
report from Pike Research, a part of Navigant's Energy Practice,
annual deployments of off-grid power supplies, using renewable
or alternative energy sources, for remote mobile base stations
will grow from fewer than 13,000 worldwide in 2012 to more than
84,000 in 2020. In all, more than 390,000 such base stations
will be deployed from 2012 through 2020, the study concludes.
"The combination of increased energy costs and expanding policy
directives from governments i