Our revised fi gures for 2011 put the number of stationary systems shipped during the full year at over 16,000 and the number of megawatts at over 81 MW, up from 8,300 and 35 MW in 2010, increases of 94% and 133% respectively. A number of factors combined to create this surge: more products maturing and reaching the market, with existing installations providing an increasingly robust track-record to convince customers; feed-in tariffs and subsidies continuing, but no longer providing the sole stimulus as the desire for energy security and independence intensify in, particularly, Japan and the USA; additionally, fuel cell.
