UTILITIES SHOULD HEED FGD MARKET GROWTH FORECAST

摘要

The Interstate Air Quality rule proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency will ensure a big market for flue gas desulfurization (FGD) systems, according to FGD: World Markets, an online report produced by Mcllvaine Company. The upshot for utilities: Serious consideration should be given to getting plans and orders in the pipeline soon in order to meet compliance deadlines at existing plants and to have new projects emissions-ready when additional base load coal capacity is needed. The Mcllvaine report predicts that orders for FGD systems will rise to $7 billion/yr in the U.S. by 2007 in addition to a big developing market in Asia. As a result, worldwide orders for FGD systems in 2007 will be $10 billion. Even though Bob Mcllvaine, the report's author, sees the annual market falling to $5 billion/yr thereafter, that is still well above the present level.