Though a good Number of Companies left the Fuel Cell Business due to low demand, this is all set to reverse mainly due to the increased interest from both the U.S. and International Governments for cleaner and more resilient power
production.
Pike Research(link), has said that over the past year, the stationary fuel cell industry has experienced
healthy growth due to a surge in U.S. and foreign government interest
in reliable and resilient energy sources. The Research firm indicates that the global market potential for fuel cells may hit or even surpass the 3GW mark in 2013, and the fuel cell market is predicted to reach 50 GW by 2020. Also the Shipments of stationary fuel
cells 21,000/Annum in 2012 to more than
350,000/Annum by 2022.
“While a number of companies have exited the fuel cell sector in the
last year, government mandates for cleaner and more resilient power
production are fueling a sharp increase in market demand,” says research
director Kerry-Ann Adamson. “At the same time, a number of new
business models are being adopted in order to meet this demand,
including energy service companies, independent power producers, and
cooperative energy companies. These are making stationary fuel cells a
much more standardized option that can be considered as part of the
overall energy mix.”
Overall, in terms of addressing market need, 2012 has seen a growing
realism entering the stationary fuel cell industry, according to the
report. Through late 2011, many fuel cell providers continued to assume
that if they created a product, the market would change its
requirements and adopt the new system. This unrealistic assessment of
the market has subsided, and companies are creating products for markets
where real needs exists—using locally available fuels, systems created
to be maintained by local engineers, and systems that do not require
very limited operating temperature ranges.
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