Archive for August, 2008
« Previous EntriesTRANSMISSION TO US INTERRUPTUS (UPDATE)
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
Finally, there is something good about the dark cloud of crash slowly moving over the bright growth of New Energy’s last 3 years.If conservative members in Congress hold true to their drill-or-nothing mentality and block extension of vital wind energy production tax credits (PTCs) and investment tax credits (ITCs), the [...]
A WORD ABOUT ENERGY SUBSIDIES
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
While the U.S. enwraps itself in the entertaining distractions of a presidential horse race and debates the irrelevant issue of pointless drilling for a useless amount of oil while continuing to consume an absurdly excessive proportion of the world’s dwindling reserves, the rest of the world grapples with the serious [...]
PENNSYLVANIA KNOWS ENERGY, WELCOMES WIND
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
Pennsylvania, homestate of The Deer Hunter, is most proud and protective of its wildlife-oriented recreation. It required a unique agreement of wind developer Everpower before it would allow their Highland Wind Project to go forward.
In a perfect example of how the wind energy industry is completely committed to bringing the [...]
VESTAS – NUMBER ONE AND ANNOUNCING IT
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
Some people call modern wind turbines “wind mills.” That is as archaic as calling a Corvette a “buggy.”
Wind energy was second only to natural gas in providing new electricity in the U.S. in 2007. Just because wind is an emissions-free source of electricity does not mean it is any less [...]
MORE SILICON, MORE SUN, ALL OVER THE WORLD
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
The news in the solar energy industry is not about war, not about political infighting, not about heartbreaking economic ruin. It’s just about business growing steadily larger, about an industry edging toward grid-parity and the capacity to solve the single most daunting challenge to the world community, global climate change.
Note [...]
STATES SUE EPA FOR OIL REFINERY EMISSIONS
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
In April, 2007, the Supreme Court changed the course of the fight against global climate change by ruling that greenhouse gases (GhGs) must be considered a pollutant, under the terms of the Clean Air Act, and, therefore, require scrutiny by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for their role in climate [...]
Investor Alert: Six Companies Worth Keeping an Eye On, #5 & 6 – Belgium’s 4Energy and U.S.’s Azure Dynamics
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
They keep coming at investors from every country – energy companies, big and small, whose prospects appear bright enough for investors to keep a close eye on. EnergyTechStocks.com doesn’t claim to know them all, but here are another six – two each from Norway and Canada and one each from Belgium and the [...]
ETS Investor Alert 8-29-08
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
A privately-held California company says it has a process for making concrete from carbon dioxide. peswiki.com
If Calera Corp.’s CO2-based Portland cement product bears out, presumably it could alter the equation of two of the world’s biggest carbon-producing industries – cement production and coal-fired power generation.
Until Monday.
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‘Human Energy Efficiency’ Is a $4 Billion Cost Saving Just Waiting for Businesses to Tap
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
Meet Todd Rossi, president of Field Diagnostic Services Inc. (FDIS), a small Philadelphia-based technology services company that’s working in a multi-billion-dollar industry nobody has heard of – yet.
EnergyTechStocks.com is going to call this industry “Human Energy Efficiency.” The concept behind it is simple. With the standard energy management systems businesses use today, each [...]
Investor Alert: Six Companies Worth Keeping an Eye On, #3 & 4 – Canada’s Plutonic Power and Epcor Power LP
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
They keep coming at investors from every country – energy companies, big and small, whose prospects appear bright enough for investors to keep a close eye on. EnergyTechStocks.com doesn’t claim to know them all, but here are another six – two each from Norway and Canada and one each from Belgium and the [...]
ETS Investor Alert 8-28-08
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
Honda, Japan’s second-largest automaker, is transforming itself into a “home-use energy business” and part of that strategy is to sell home solar globally. www.planetark.com
Honda’s strategy appears far different than all its automotive rivals, and it could just be the company’s biggest mistake, given that it seems to be built around fuel cells, a [...]
SELL SHORT? HILLARY PROVES IT’S TOO SOON TO TELL
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
There is a way to make money in Wall Street markets as stocks fall in value. It is called selling short. It may soon be time to sell New Energy stocks short.
But not right away. Just as Senator Clinton proved it is a little early to label the Democrats’ familiar [...]
COMPRESSED AIR ENERGY STORAGE – FURTHER ALONG
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
With the growing momentum of big New Energy installations, the hunt is on for the most economic means of storage.
One of the first and best options: Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES).
The basic idea has been seducing engineers and dreamers since at least the 1970s: Intermittent sources of energy like wind [...]
THE ECONOMICS OF EMISSIONS OFFSETS TRADING
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
Investor/securities authority William D. Glubiak says emissions offsets trading is a fulfillment of the potential of Nobel laureate economist Milton Friedman’s free market economics.
Glubiak observes, in what he calls the “green movement,” a move toward social responsibility in individuals’ and corporations’ choice of investments. And he describes how the free [...]
Who’ll Win ‘Smart Grid’ Gold? Keep an Eye on Duke, Ambient, eMeter, EnerNOC, GridPoint, Trilliant & More
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
Much has been written about the critical need to fix the faltering power grid, the rapid development of plug-in electric hybrid vehicles in the face of record pump prices, and corporations’ strong interest in energy efficiency to combat rising power costs. Not much has been written – yet – about [...]
Investor Alert: Six Companies Worth Keeping An Eye On, #1 & 2 – TGS-Nopec and Wavefield-Inseis of Norway
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
They keep coming at investors from every country – energy companies, big and small, whose prospects appear bright enough for investors to keep a close eye on. EnergyTechStocks.com doesn’t claim to know them all, but here are another six – two each from Norway and Canada and one each from [...]
ETS Investor Alert 8-27-08
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
Could biodiesel made from algae be mass produced with just three years? One of the companies developing the technology says yes. cleantechnica.com
The company, Solazyme, thinks it may be capable of producing millions of gallons in that time, its president saying, “The technology is moving a lot faster than people would [...]
ARABIAN DESERT SOLAR: BETTER THAN RUSSIAN GAS VIA GEORGIA
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
A U.S. Army study done in the early 1990s, after the first Gulf War, came to an unsurprising conclusion: Saudi Arabia is the Saudi Arabia of solar energy.
The Saudis are the buckle on the Eastern Hemisphere’s sun belt, a region – said to have the best solar resources on earth [...]
UTAH WANTS NEW ENERGY, NEW ATTITUDE
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
Utah is not like the left coast. Utah is not about fads and the outlandish. Utah is about church and the land. Utah is not about handouts to the undeserving, it’s about hard work and a helping hand for those willing to do it. That’s why it’s so remarkable to [...]
FARM THE WIND
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
Jerry Harke, director of issues management for the American Farm Bureau Federation, did a pretty good job of presenting the argument for why farmers, ranchers and rural land owners should install wind turbines.
It is not a hard case to make: Turbines earn money!
On land where terrain or soil has prevented [...]
ETS Investor Alert 8-26-08
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
A start-up Japanese company says it has a technology that can increase the fuel efficiency, and decrease the carbon dioxide emissions, of existing gasoline-fueled vehicles by 30%. www.guardian.co.uk
It promises to do so by adding a small hydrogen generator that increases by about 3% the hydrogen in the intake air, which the company says [...]
Market Missed Last Week’s ‘Hottest’ News, But Google’s Interest in Geothermal Won’t Be Overlooked for Long
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
“It’s a big resource, it’s got a good cost curve, and it’s not getting enough attention.” So said Dan Reicher, director of climate and energy initiatives for Google’s philanthropic arm, Google.org, when he announced last week that Google is investing $10 million in companies developing technologies for exploiting geothermal energy – aka, the [...]
Raymond James Alternative Energy Analyst Molchanov (Pt. 2 of 2) – A-Power Energy Generation Systems Ltd.
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
Because he only covers alternative energy stocks that trade in the U.S., Pavel Molchanov doesn’t cover many of the world’s leading wind energy companies that trade in Europe. But the Raymond James & Associates alternative energy analyst has found a Chinese company that recently started trading on NASDAQ that he thinks could be [...]
BUILDER BUYS WIND (AS A HEDGE!)
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
FCC, a Spanish construction giant, having decided on a €4 billion ($5.9 billion) diversification program in response to the downturn in Spain’s building sector, made a move into the energy sector. A purchase of oil and gas futures? Coal or nuclear plant construction? New transmission? No – wind energy.
It is [...]
UTILITIES BUILD SUN (AS A START)
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
A series of new solar installations have been announced this year for North Carolina. To the state’s solar energy enthusiasts, this is a long overdue turn of events.Stephen Kalland, director, N.C. Solar Center/N.C. State University: “It’s about time…The technology has been there for some time.”
There are 2 ways to look [...]
