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The Clean Energy Market Opportunity

An upsurge in profitable market and private investment opportunities in the clean energy and related information technology fields is being stimulated by several key trends in the global power industry:

Fuel cells on the market
  • the restructuring and deregulation of the electric utility industry and the move toward distributed technology
  • global environmental concerns
  • rapid development of sophisticated information and communication technologies
  • rising demand for power
  • rapid improvements in technology cost/performance
  • rising demand for power
  • interest from the financial community

For a brief summary of some of these opportunities, see Appendix A of the report for the National Alliance of Clean Energy Business Incubators (PDF 393 KBDownload Acrobat Reader. More detailed information can be found through these related Web sites:

Green Power Network

Distributed Power Program

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