Forecaster puts world DG
at 200,000 mw by `08

Allied Business Intelligence of Oyster Bay, NY, is telling clients that DG contribution to the grid may hit 200,000 mw as early as 2011 and that's worldwide.
     Compare that with 65,000 today.  They see wind as the dominant (65%) generator in DG while small gas turbines get 22% and fuel cells 6%.
     They call it Growth Projections for Fuel Cells, Photovoltaics, Wind Turbines, Reciprocating Engines, and Small Gas Turbines.
     Meanwhile the world gas market was predicted to grow at 2.4% over the next five years.
     Business Communications Co (BCC) has a report not yet released -- World Natural Gas Business -- that forecasts gas use worldwide will grow 2.4% a year on average over the next five years and reach 117 tcf in 2008.
     That demand will step up investments in getting gas via unconventional sources -- coalbed methane, gas shales, tight sands and landfill gas plus LNG and conventional sources.
     BCC predicts over the five years for unconventional sources a 10.7% growth rate while LNG use grows at 7+%.

(Story originally published in Restructuring Today 3/18/04)

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