Navigant Research Expects the Global Market for Smart Generator Sets to Exceed $18.5 Billion in Annual Revenue by 2026

A new report from Navigant Research examines the global market for diesel and natural gas reciprocating generator sets (gensets), providing an analysis of key market developments and issues, with global forecasts that extend through 2026.

As the global power equation shifts toward generation that is more distributed, intelligent, and interconnected, smart features are being incorporated into gensets at a growing pace. Customers are now demanding advanced features like enhanced maintenance, microgrid interactivity, and demand response, enabled by advances in control technologies and the increasingly ubiquitous connectivity of devices in the Energy Cloud. Click to tweet: According to a new report from @NavigantRSRCH, the market for smart gensets is expected to surpass $18.5 billion in annual revenue by 2026 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 10.5 percent.

“Gensets are gaining a surge of smart features, thanks to improved controls and software, and demands from customers that they provide more services,” says Adam Forni, senior research analyst at Navigant Research. “While many older gensets just waited for the grid to go down, smart gensets are increasingly interactive—with human operators, with other DER, and with the grid itself.”

Customers adopt smart gensets for a variety of applications, but some common project characteristics include critical loads, remote sites, sophisticated customers, higher fuel costs, and larger and more complex projects. According to the report, genset vendors and controller and software companies are embracing these value streams, both to provide added value to customers and to compete against the falling prices of alternative energy resources like solar and storage.

The report, Smart Gensets, analyzes the global market for diesel and natural gas reciprocating gensets for six segments: residential; commercial and industrial (C&I) standby; C&I prime and continuous; C&I combined heat and power (CHP); utility; and resource extraction. The study provides an analysis of key market developments and issues, with a focus on three key smart genset applications (operator-interactive, microgrid-interactive, and grid-interactive). Global market forecasts, broken out by segment, country, and region, extend through 2026. The report also examines the main technologies related to smart gensets, as well as the competitive landscape. An Executive Summary of the report is available for free download on the Navigant Research website.

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* The information contained in this press release concerning the report, Smart Gensets, is a summary and reflects Navigant Research’s current expectations based on market data and trend analysis. Market predictions and expectations are inherently uncertain and actual results may differ materially from those contained in this press release or the report. Please refer to the full report for a complete understanding of the assumptions underlying the report’s conclusions and the methodologies used to create the report. Neither Navigant Research nor Navigant undertakes any obligation to update any of the information contained in this press release or the report.

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