SMART GRID BOOMING

Smart Grid to Grow 21 Percent a Year to $17B by 2014: Report
Katie Fehrenbacher, May 26, 2009 (earth2tech)

"Networking giant Cisco has estimated that the market for smart grid communications will grow into a $20 billion-a-year opportunity as the infrastructure is built out over the next five years, and a new report from researchers at Specialists in Business Information (SBI) forecasts the market will grow to $17 billion per year by 2014 from today’s $6 billion… a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of almost 21 percent through 2014 for technology that will provide better sensing and control systems and help integrate more renewable energy into the U.S. power supply. Globally, SBI expects the market for smart grid technologies to grow [from approximately $70 billion in 2009] to about $171 billion by 2014…a CAGR of nearly 20 percent…"

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"…[To] put it in perspective with some of the other markets created through information technology:

"The worldwide market for home-networking products, like game consoles, TVs and set-top boxes, will rise to over $94 billion in 2010, from about $74 billion this year…The worldwide revenue from semiconductors was $255 billion in 2008…a decrease of $14.5 billion from 2007…Worldwide spending on IT, which includes consumer and business spending on computing, IT services, telecom and software, is forecast to total $3.2 trillion in 2009, a 3.8 percent decline from $3.4 trillion in 2008…The worldwide market for enterprise software is forecast to total $222.6 billion in 2009, basically unchanged from $221.9 billion last year…"