US / Finland · Power & Cooling

Onsite Power (Fuel Cells & Engines)

When the grid can't deliver in time, campuses build their own: recip engines, fuel cells and aeroderivatives as a bridge — at higher cost per MWh.

Gas→Recip / fuel cell→Microgrid→Campus

Tightness score ⓘ

#21 of 56

▲ Tightening

Supply concentration3

Lead time3

Capex intensity4

Geopolitical exposure2

Pricing power4

Lead time

12–24 mo

Theme 1M

−13.7%

% in uptrend

Metric to watch

Fuel-cell and recip-engine data-centre orders, and onsite-power share of new campus announcements.

What would prove us wrong

Weakens if interconnection speeds up enough that onsite power loses its time-to-power premium.

Dependencies

Equal-weight · rebased 100 · 1Y

Stocks we track

Who controls this bottleneck

Roles, not recommendations. Delayed prices; local currency.

Stock	Role	Listing	Last	1D	1M	3M	YTD	Off 52w high	Next earnings
BE Bloom Energy	Fuel cells for onsite data-centre power	NYSE US	$203.2	−8.61%	−26.8%	−6.9%	+133.8%	−41.2%	2026-10-22
CMI Cummins	Gensets and engines for backup and prime power	NYSE US	$500.1	−3.46%	−3.3%	−22.6%	−1.0%	−31.0%	2026-11-05
GNRC Generac	Large gensets for data centres	NYSE US	$197.9	−2.67%	−4.8%	−1.6%	+45.1%	−33.0%	2026-10-28
WRT1V.HE Wärtsilä	Recip engine power plants	Nasdaq Helsinki Finland	€25.64	−3.39%	−8.9%	−13.4%	−12.8%	−34.6%	2026-10-27
CAT Caterpillar	Recip gensets and Solar Turbines for onsite power	NYSE US	$622.8	−3.81%	−24.5%	−24.8%	+9.6%	−41.3%	2027-01-28

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