Significant Market Potential
20% of the new power requirements estimated above is equivalent to 400 Fermi nuclear plants, 11.6 million 7 kW fuel cells, or $40 billion of new equipment at $500 per kW.
Wide spread recognition that DG technologies can play a key role in the future have led to promising market forecasts ...
… which translate into significant sales opportunities.
“…the Department of Energy (DOE) forecasts a total of 403,000 MW of new capacity needed by 2020 in order to meet growing demand and to replace retiring units… It is expected that distributed generation will have to address approximately 15 to 20 percent of new power requirements.” - Frost & Sullivan