Microturbines Market Trends

Growth Drivers

• Growing Demand from Several End-Use Industries – Microturbines are in high demand for biogas applications, particularly cogeneration in wastewater treatment plants, farms, and landfills. Furthermore, their increasing application in mining, oil and gas, construction, automotive, and pharmaceutical industries, as well as the growing demand for hydropower plants and micro wind turbines to generate electricity for small-scale use, is driving market growth.

• Increasing Demand for On-site Power Generation – With the rising energy transition to renewable energy and the growing popularity of distributed energy, there is a surge in the transition to in-site energy production. On-site power generation upgrades energy density, lowers transmission line losses, and eliminates conversion losses. As microturbines provide low-emission and low-cost on-site power generation with reliable features, the investment in such technology is elevating.

Challenges

• Decreasing Fossil Fuel Prices across the World - The fall in the price of fossil fuels such as crude oil and gas across the world is estimated to hamper the market growth owing to the cheaper availability of energy from these materials. As the calorific value of crude oil is greater than microturbines the cost of energy production is less for crude oil and thus this hampers the microturbines market growth.

• High Level of Competition from Present Distributed Power Generation Equipment

• Scarcity of Trained Professionals in the Sector