Enabling Technologies For The Smart Grid

March 25, 2009

 

Wellesley, Mass—According to a new technical market research report, ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE SMART GRID (EGY065A) from BCC Research (www.bccresearch.com), the U.S. market for enabling technologies for the smart grid was worth $15.3 billion in 2008. This will increase to an estimated $17.4 billion in 2009 and to more than $37.4 billion in 2014, for a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 16.6%.
 
The market is broken down into segments for communications; sensing, measurement and control; distributed energy generation and storage; and transmission lines. Of these, distributed energy generation and storage currently has the largest market share, worth $10.1 billion in 2008 and an estimated $11.3 billion in 2009. This segment should reach $20.1 billion in 2014, for a CAGR of 12.2%.
 
The sensing, measurement and control technologies segment has the second-largest share of the market, worth almost $4 billion in 2008 and an estimated $4.4 billion in 2009. This segment is expected to grow at a CAGR of 26% to reach $14 billion in 2014.
 
The third-largest market segment is communication technologies, which generated $1.1 billion in 2008. This should increase to $1.6 billion in 2009 and nearly $3 billion in 2014, for a CAGR of 12.4%.

 
In addition to growing concerns about the U.S. electric grid’s robustness and reliability, the grid was designed and built with the basic objective of keeping the lights on. Meanwhile, other concerns have become increasingly important in the political and public dialogue about the status and future of the electrical grid, particularly energy efficiency, environmental impacts and consumer choice.
 
Governments and utilities in the U.S. and elsewhere are investing new technologies in order to build a 21st-century grid that runs more efficiently, generates higher-quality power, resists attack, is self-healing, enables consumers to manage their usage better, and integrates renewable energy and storage technologies.

Enabling Technologies for the Smart Grid( EGY065A )
Publish Date: Mar 2009    

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