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wiredInUSA - January 2013
wiredInUSA - January 2013
Lucintel, a management consulting
and market research firm, has
analyzed the global telecom cable
industry and offers its findings in
its latest research report, "Global
telecom cable industry 2012-2017:
trend, profit, and forecast analysis."
According to the report, the industry
experienced good growth during
2006–2011 and is expected to retain
the same growth momentum over
2012–2017. The forecast is to reach an
estimated $25.4 billion by 2017 at a
compound annual growth rate of 6.7
percent over the next five years.
Lucintel has identified that technologi-
cal challenges, supply and demand
market, government regulations,
tight liquidity positions, and scarcity
of skilled workforce are the major
industry growth challengers. Increasing
budget allocation, positive trend in
telecom sector, new technological
advancements,
supportive
GDP
growth, and high investments made
by private companies are the drivers
providing the industry with a
competitive advantage.
The research report provides an
understanding of recent industry
scope and overview, global macro-
economic overview, relative market
attractiveness by region, annual industry
trend, emerging trends, industry
forecasts, Porter's five forces analysis,
product launches and merger and
acquisitions that determine the
regional and segmentary opportunities,
competitive landscape, and profitability
trend and analysis of the major
industry players.
Growth for
telecom cables
until 2017
New research reveals that a
well-designed combination
of wind and solar power
with energy stored in fuel
cells and batteries could
power the grid 99.9 percent
ofthetimeby2030.Anarticle
by scientists at the University
of Delaware and Delaware
Technical
Community
College, published in the
Journal of Power Sources,
estimates that the combi-
nation would nearly always
exceed electricity demand
and keep costs low.
“These results break the
conventional wisdom that
renewable energy is too
unreliable and expensive,”
says
co-author
Willett
Kempton, professor in the
School of Marine Science
and Policy at the University
of Delaware.
The researchers designed
a computer model to
consider 28 billion different
combinations of renewable
power sources and energy
storage options, tested
over four years of historical
weather data and electricity
demand. The calculations
show, for example, that
a large electric system
capable
of
meeting
demand of 72GW could be
run 99.9 percent of the time
on 17GW of solar power,
68GW of offshore wind and
115GW of onshore wind
with hydrogen energy
storage.
When renewable energy
fails to meet demand,
additional energy is drawn
from storage and, in
the rare event of this not
meeting demand, fossil fuel
power would be called in.
The researchers say that
moving to such a heavy
dependence on renewables
could also reduce costs,
compared to continued
use of fossil fuels.
Renewables
potential to
power the grid
99.9 percent
of the time
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