Telecom energy services companies today own and operate the power systems at 49,316 cell sites. While that represents only 1% of the 4.7mn cell sites in the world, it also represents more than 10% of the estimated 400,000 site addressable market for telecom ESCOs. The ESCO market has grown by more than 5.5x in the last five years. Over the next five years, telecom ESCOs will spend US$1.8bn to deploy a total of 200MW of distributed generation and energy storage. Leaders from the telecom ESCO ecosystem will gather at the ESCO Roundtable on October 13 and 14 in Johannesburg (co-located with the TowerXchange Meetup Africa).
ESCOs now operate the power systems at almost 50,000 cell sites, rising to over 100,000 by 2024
