RES-FC MARKET: Regional Markets of RES-Fuel Cell Systems for Households

The scope of the proposed action is to make a contribution for changing the development of renewable energy sources (RES) fuel cell household systems (FCHS) from R &D also to include market development and in this way accelerate the development of the technology and its economic performance. The specific goal is in a report to describe minimum 20 regional markets for RES-FCHS with an aggregated market of minimum 3,000 RES-FCHS units to be realized in 2006-07 or in the near future after. By cooperation between the regional RES-FCHS markets, the regional markets shall be used for driving down the costs of RES-FCHS to a level of maximum 5,000 EURO/kWe, e.g. by “pooling” of the regional markets to have a positive effect of scale. Lessons from the successful European technology and market development of wind turbines will be transferred into the RES-FCHS sector, making EU a driver of the Global RES-FCHS development.