Archive for June, 2008
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Submitted by New Energy News Blog
Dr. PV and Mr. PV met with the Solaroids in San Diego June 18 at IntertechPira’s Photovoltaics Summit 2008 (June 18-20).Dr. PV is solar energy pioneer and legend Lawrence Kazmerski (Director, National Center for Photovoltaics, National Renewable Energy Laboratory-NREL). He kicked the meeting off by describing what he called The [...]
FUN WITH WIND MARKET FUND?
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
There are relatively few ways to invest in wind energy in comparison to other energy companies. Wind is not a commodity. There are few wind energy companies traded on U.S. markets, though there are foreign companies available through European and Asian markets. Some U.S. companies available on the major exchanges [...]
MORE “SPLASH AND DASH” BIODIESEL SCAM
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
International biodiesel producers hustled the U.S. taxpayer for $300 million dollars last year and are likely to do so to the tune of $600 million this year. They are taking advantage of a loophole in the U.S. subsidy of biodiesel popularly and disdainfully referred to as splash and dash. (See [...]
SENATOR, SUN IN SHOWDOWN
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
Politics makes strange bedfellows but Senator John Ensign (R-Nev) has been caught cheating.
Nevada is a state rich in solar energy assets. Development of them could represent a bounty for the state’s green industries, green collar work force and New Energy investors.
The Democratic majority in the U.S. Congress has over the [...]
ETS Investor Alert 6-20-08
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
A new report concludes the cost of solar panels will plummet over the next few years. www.ecogeek.org
Is your portfolio ready for the price drop?
Logically, companies that make the basic silicon commodity could get hurt, while fully-integrated companies that make, put together and install solar photovoltaic systems could prosper from reduced inputs costs.
Until Monday.
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Is Any Auto Manufacturer Worth Owning These Days? Investors Might Want to Look at China’s Dongfeng
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
Can’t bear to read another headline about plunging new-car sales? Convinced that as long as gasoline costs, at a minimum, $4 a gallon, no car company in the world has the right stuff?
Well, here’s a name you might not have heard of that may be worth a closer look – Dongfeng Motor Group. [...]
Survey of U.S. Consumers’ Favorite ‘Green’ Brands Suggests Public Support For Cap-and-Trade in Trouble
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
A new survey by advertising giant WPP finds that U.S. consumers’ favorite “green” brands are Whole Foods, Burt’s Bees, Trader Joe’s, Tom’s of Maine and Toyota, in that order. But it’s what the survey did not find that should be of concern to investors and to the two gentlemen running for President of [...]
ETS Investor Alert 6-19-08
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
In what is described as the first program of its kind in Japan, Nissan has agreed to pledge one ton of carbon offsets for every March Collet automobile it sells in its home country. www.environmentalleader.com
Another piece of evidence that Nissan is going after the “green” crowns currently worn by Toyota and Honda.
Until tomorrow.
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Hoping Oil Prices Will Come Down If U.S. Dollar Strengthens? Raymond James Says Fuhgedaboutit
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
A new report from the Houston-based energy analysts at Raymond James & Associates warns investors not to think that the price of oil will decline if the U.S. dollar strengthens against other world currencies.
While not discounting the impact of movements in the dollar on daily fluctuations in the price of oil, the report [...]
What Should You Do With Solar, Wind & Geothermal Stocks If Congress Does Not Renew Their Tax Credits?
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
When Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan and other well-connected investment banking firms need to advise their billionaire private banking clients what to do in the area of renewable energy, they probably turn to someone like EnergyTechStocks.com’s “Washington Insider.”
So we asked our inside man what he thinks investors should do in the event Congress does [...]
UTILITIES MOVE INTO SUN
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
Utilities are investing in new power plants. Why is that news? Because they are SOLAR power plants.
Despite the failure of the U.S. Congress to extend the solar energy industry investment tax credits (ITCs) that will expire at the end of this year, big investors are courageously building for a future [...]
OFFSHORE OIL SCIENCE BRINGS OFFSHORE WIND IN
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
Here’s a good phrase: monopile tower technology. It describes wind turbines with a single (mono) tower. (Not to be confused with mano, Spanish for hand and indicative of manly effort.) Monopile tower technology is inadequate for the tempestuous environment of deep ocean waters where wind energy potential is enormously rich. [...]
BIOFUELS AND FOOD, BY THE NUMBERS
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
From the NY Times’ Tom Friedman: “For Egypt’s poor, who make up 40 percent of the population, food makes up 60 percent of their household budget. When wheat prices double, because more U.S. farmers plant corn for biofuels, it is devastating for Egyptians, who depend on imported American wheat for [...]
FOR THE ELECTRIC CAR: MS. STONER GOES TO WASHINGTON
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
Liza Stoner is taking her petition, give us electric cars! from her hometown of Minneapolis, Minnesota, to legislators in Washington, D.C. – by bike!
From Liza’s petition: “We the people are asking you [Congress] to pass legislation that would grant tax credits and incentives to companies who design, produce, manufacture or [...]
BIOFUEL + SUN = POWERPLANT
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
In agricultural regions, waste-to-biogas is an especially good choice. In sunny regions, solar energy is an especially good choice. In California’s central valley, both agricultural waste and sun are plentiful. What could be more logical than using both?
In point of fact, the two can almost always balance each other and [...]
SCIENTISTS CALL FOR ‘CLEAN’ COAL
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In a case of turnabout, British think tank Policy Exchange has released a report demanding the government give the same incentives to CCS that it gives to wind. The think tank wants the British government to do more to support the development of “clean” coal (also known as carbon capture [...]
ETS Investor Alert 6-18-08
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
Though it’s still in diapers, General Electric expects its solar business to be generating $1 billion in annual revenue within three or so years. www.reuters.com
That’s a staggeringly fast growth rate, even for an eco-oriented giant like GE.
Tells you how fast new energy technology is turning into a monster global business.
Until tomorrow.
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As Only Quick Fix, Expect Energy Efficiency Providers To Surge – Watch Tanfield, WFI and Pursuit (Part 3 of 3)
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
A desperate search is on in America and around the world for quick fixes to an energy crisis decades in the making, but as experts emphasize, the only immediate remedy is to use less. Thus companies that provide energy efficiency services are about to reap the benefits of unprecedented attention from Washington, Wall [...]
Prophet Of Doom Charles Maxwell’s Worst Fears About OPEC Production Problems Appear To Be Coming True
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
As the man who shook up the world when he recently told EnergyTechStocks.com that U.S. pump prices could hit $15 a gallon within a few years, (See ‘Dean of Oil Analysts’ Maxwell (Part 2 of 4): U.S. Pump Prices to Hit $12 to $15 a Gallon) “dean” of energy analysts Charles Maxwell has [...]
OPPORTUNITY: BUY A SHARE OF WIND
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
People with money want to invest it where it can earn more money. No place better to do that than New Energy. World Watch Institute reported wind investments of $36 billion in 2007.
But this public offering from High Country Energy isn’t quite an IPO. This is an opportunity for the [...]
OPPORTUNITY: BUY A SHARE OF WIND
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
People with money want to invest it where it can earn more money. No place better to do that than New Energy. World Watch Institute reported wind investments of $36 billion in 2007.
But this public offering from High Country Energy isn’t quite an IPO. This is an opportunity for the [...]
G8 WANTS ‘CLEAN’ COAL TRIALS BUT THERE IS A CATCH
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
Here is a great new angle on a story to which the mainstream press has paid way too little attention. “Clean” coal – something the utilities keep advertising on TV and politicians keep promising as the solution to global climate change – still does not really exist at scale except [...]
G8 WANTS ‘CLEAN’ COAL TRIALS BUT THERE IS A CATCH
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
Here is a great new angle on a story to which the mainstream press has paid way too little attention. “Clean” coal – something the utilities keep advertising on TV and politicians keep promising as the solution to global climate change – still does not really exist at scale except [...]
OCEAN ENERGY SWELL SLOWLY ROLLING IN
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
Salter’s Ducks were house-sized floating canisters designed by engineer Stephen Salter of the University of Edinburgh in the 1970s in response to the oil crises. Each was capable of generating 6 megawatts of wave energy-generated electricity. Initially expensive, Salter got the price down to competitive levels but the British government [...]
ETS Investor Alert 6-17-08
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
More evidence that the era of plug-in hybrid behicles is barreling at us at the speed of light.
A handful of Toyota dealers just signed up with privately-held A123 Systems to install plug-in conversion kits into existing Prius hybrids. greentechmedia.com
So far it’s only four, but we bet the number will soon be much higher.
Until [...]
