The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy's (FE) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), in partnership with private industries, is leading the development and demonstration of high efficiency solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC) and fuel cell turbine hybrid power generation systems for near term distributed generation market with emphasis on premium power and high reliability. NETL is partnering with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in developing new directions in research under the Solid-State Energy Conversion Alliance (SECA) initiative for the development and commercialization of modular, low cost, and fuel flexible SOFC systems. The SECA initiative, through advanced materials, processing and system integration research and development will bring the fuel cell cost to $400/kilowatt (kW) for stationary and auxiliary power markets. Solid oxide materials are quite versatile. Solid-oxide technology based applications include the following applications: electric power (residential (2-50 kW), commercial (50-250kW), IT, UPS, APU, large appliance), hydrogen and electric power co-production, sensors, oxygen production, etc. Many of these applications support FutureGen and other DOE efforts.