The latest Fuel Cell Industry Review reports that annual fuel cell system shipments in 2011 were 24,600 - growing by 39% compared to 2010, led by increases in the stationary power sector. 2011 was by far the most successful year to date in the history of fuel cells with annual megawatts (MW) shipped exceeding 100 MW for the first time as commercialisation of the industry took hold. Growth in ...
ANNUAL FUEL CELL SHIPMENTS TO TRIPLE BETWEEN 2011 & 2012, SURPASSING 78,000 UNITS; ANNUAL MEGAWATTS EXPECTED TO INCREASE 61%, REACHING 176 MW IN 2012 Fuel Cell Today has released its latest free annual review of the fuel cell industry, reporting continued growth through 2011 and its expectations for further growth in 2012. The Fuel Cell Industry Review 2012 reports that annual fuel cell ...
The global fuel cell industry is growing at a rapid pace, having posted a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 83% during the period from 2009 to 2011. However, the industry is still small, particularly compared to some of its other counterparts in the clean energy arena such as solar and wind. And the fuel cell industry still suffers from a pattern of expansion and contraction. During 2011, ...
On August 12, 2020, DOE issued an RFI to obtain industry, academia, and research community input on DOE’s hydrogen and fuel cells R&D and demonstration activities and strategies, including its H2@Scale initiative. DOE hopes that feedback received will help its Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies Office’s (HFTO) research priorities and goals to ensure that they address current and ...
The National Research Council’s (NRC) Vancouver-based fuel cell and hydrogen industry cluster has received a $13 million boost with the opening of the Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Gateway - a technology demonstration and exhibit centre showcasing Canada’s world-leading fuel cell and hydrogen industry. The Gateway was conceived through a public-private partnership between NRC, Natural ...
A new report from Navigant Research provides a global analysis of major developments and trends in the fuel cell industry, including global market forecasts for fuel cell systems and capacity shipped and system revenue through 2023. During 2013 and 2014, the fuel cell market continued to see the greatest demand from stationary applications, including utility-scale fuel cells, fuel cells for ...
Although some sectors of the fuel cell industry, such as portable fuel cells, continue to struggle, stationary fuel cells have seen 2 years of strong growth, with an ongoing boom in prime power and residential combined heat and power (resCHP) fuel cell system shipments. Click to tweet: According to a new white paper from Navigant Research, while the broader fuel cell industry continues to ...
Driven, in part, by the increased incidence of major natural disasters the fuel cell industry is enjoying a resurgence. Rising demand and new policy initiatives from a variety of countries such as China, South Korea, and South Africa made 2012 a pivotal year for the fuel cell market. Click to tweet: According to a recent report from Navigant Research, the industry topped the $1 billion mark in ...
Driven by the increased worldwide focus on creating resilient, distributed energy systems, the fuel cell industry is experiencing a modest growth spurt. While the stationary sector continues to be the industry powerhouse, the transportation sector is also seeing acceleration in volume. The industry topped the $1 billion mark in revenue from the sale of fuel cell systems in 2012, according to a ...
The stationary fuel cell sector continues to be the vanguard of the overall global fuel cell industry. As the focus on grid stability increases and the costs associated with natural disasters rise, the use of fuel cells as small distributed power plants for grid stabilization and backup is moving forward more rapidly, in terms of megawatts and revenue, than any other fuel cell sector. Click to ...
FuelCellsEtc has released an online pricing tool that gives users instant price quotes for custom 5 – Layer or single sided Membrane Electrode Assemblies (MEAs). This marks the first time such a tool has been made available to the fuel cell industry. The tool allows the user to customize sizing, catalyst configuration, and membrane type, with dynamically updated pricing, and the ability ...
This year, we celebrate SRM’s 112 years at the technical forefront, as a development company focusing on our own patented technology for compression and expansion of gases. SRM was established in 1908. Since then we have been inventing and developing a large number of products, with our highly efficient screw compressor technology as the core activity. Looking back, we feel confident ...
The stationary fuel cell industry is growing in terms of megawatts and systems shipped. At the same time, it is going through a deep restructuring, with a number of companies exiting the space and a handful of new entrants appearing. The most notable shift from 2011 to 2012 has been a meaningful set of developments in government policy that will directly influence the future of the fuel cell ...
The Energy Department today released the 2013 Fuel Cell Technologies Market Report, detailing trends in the U.S. fuel cell and hydrogen technologies market. The report highlights continued growth in fuel cell commercial deployments, including material handling equipment such as forklifts as well as combined heat and power systems and back-up and auxiliary power units. More than 35,000 fuel cell ...
Adam Bond, CEO, said:” The ability to deliver this extended operational lifetime in our electrodes is the critical factor in reducing the levelized cost of power. This would be an incredible outcome not only for AFC Energy, but for the fuel cell industry and the wider hydrogen economy, and will put our technology on a comparable footing with other low carbon, base load power generation ...
The Energy Department has released three new reports showcasing strong growth across the U.S. fuel cell and hydrogen technologies market – continuing America’s leadership in clean energy innovation and providing U.S. businesses more affordable, cleaner transportation and power options. According to these reports, the United States continues to be one of the world’s largest and ...
The fuel cell supply chain, made up of companies that provide high-quality, economically competitive critical components for the fuel cell stack, is an area that has been somewhat overlooked. Indeed, the fuel cell industry faces a fundamental quandary: without a growing industry, the supply chain cannot benefit from component standardization, volume ...
PORTLAND, Maine – IntertechPira is pleased to announce the conference co-chairs for Fuel Cell Early Markets 2007: Policy, Finance, & Applications, to be held 11-12 June in Brussels, Belgium and produced in conjunction with Core Technology Ventures. Co-chairing this year’s event will be: Tim Yeo MP – Member of Parliament for South Suffolk in the UK since 1983. Since 2005 he has also ...
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, is a pretty unlikely place to find one of the rarest electric vehicles, or EVs, in Canada. But Kent Rathwell, the owner of one of only three Toyota RAV4 EVs north of the American border, is a pretty extraordinary dude. He’s the founder of Sun Country Highway, a company which has installed electric vehicle charging stations across Canada. And while I was in ...
The Energy Department's (DOE's) Fuel Cell Technologies Office (FCTO) has announced the top three states in hydrogen and fuel cell industry activities while now seeking stakeholder feedback to improve standardized manufacturing in the industry. According to the newly released State of the States: Fuel Cells in America 2016 report, the top three hydrogen and fuel cell states are California, ...