Abstract
Fuel cell companies continue to struggle to grow their industry beyond its emerging technology status. Despite the addition of new distribution partners, international offices, and new products, technology constraints and high production costs continue to hamper broad implementation efforts. In this report, we consider the industry's overall health and its prospects for 2005 and beyond.
Companies continue to improve product reliability and to lower manufacturing cost. However, given the current status of sales efforts, it's too early to say that any company has successfully made the transition from an R&D firm to a commercially viable business.
Table of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Energy Insights Opinion
- Executive Overview
- Large Fuel Cells: Getting Bigger to Get Cheaper
- Small Fuel Cells Struggle to Find Buyers
- Japan's support of fuel cell industry follows past strategy for photovoltaics
- Company Status and Activity
- Large fuel cell developers
- Table: Large Fuel Cell Developers Summary
- Ansaldo Fuel Cells
- FuelCell Energy
- GenCell
- Figure: GenCell Corporation's 40-kW MCFC Fuel Cell
- General Motors
- Figure: General Motors PEM Fuel Cells at Dow Chemical's Freeport, Texas Facility
- Rolls-Royce
- Siemens Westinghouse Power Corporation
- UTC Fuel Cells
- Ztek
- Figure: Ztek Corporation's 25-kW SOFC at Dinosaur State Park in Connecticut
- Small fuel cell developers
- Acumentrics
- Table: Small Fuel Cell Developers Summary
- Axane
- Ballard Power Systems
- Figure: Ebara Ballard's 1-kW CHP system
- Ceramic Fuel Cells Limited
- European Fuel Cell
- Fuel Cell Technologies
- Figure: Fuel Cell Technologies' Second-generation 5-kW CHP SOFC
- Hydrogenics Corporation
- IdaTech
- Ion America
- Nuvera
- Plug Power
- ReliOn
- Sulzer Hexis
- Contact Information
- Table: Contact Information
- Synopsis
