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EnergyTechStocks.com is read monthly by investors in over 100 countries. That makes us keenly aware of the need to throw a spotlight on intriguing-looking companies all over the world. This week we highlight five companies from five different countries (Scotland, China, the United States, Canada and Finland), each of which may be of [...]
ETS Investor Alert 9-25-08
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Environmentalists have been scoffing ever since the International Atomic Energy Agency said nuclear power production could as much as double by 2030. uk.reuters.com
But with carbon sequestration technology still under development, and with energy efficiency important but not a cure-all for the world’s need for electricity, nuclear power obviously has room to grow.
And companies [...]
SUN STOCKS UP ON HOPE FOR TAX CREDITS
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Solar industry stock values jumped in response to the passage by the U.S. Senate of the tax extenders package September 23. Because the legislation had already been passed by the House, New Energy industry hopes skyrocketed as investors bought solar in anticipation of quick final ratification.
Not. The House of Representatives [...]
WIND MYTHS CORRECTED
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A noted science writer set himself the task of saving NewEnergyNews some trouble. Science writer Michael Schriber corrected some persistent myths about wind energy. But first, why are these myths so persistent?
Business is competitive and wind energy is in the process of taking business away from some of the most [...]
A NEW WORLD COMING AND IT WON’T BURN COAL
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Think the idealism of the 1960s is gone forever? Maybe. Or maybe it has emerged as a clear-eyed, strong-willed commitment to make this a climate-stable New Energy world free of greenhouse gas (GhG) emissions, and let the peace, love and understanding follow in the wake of that.
The young and young-at-heart [...]
THE PLOT THICKENS – TAX CREDITS TO PASS, HOUSE DEMS PUNT DRILLING TO NEXT PRES
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As if the financial crisis wasn’t enough drama for one week – make that one life – the House Democrats just raised the stakes in the energy game. Bigtime. And with their move, the outcome of the November 4 election became yet more crucial.
It had looked like a great day. [...]
LONG ISLAND OFFSHORE WIND – BETTER THE 2ND TIME?
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The Long Island Power Authority (LIPA) has a $6.6 billion debtload, the financial burden of renovating out-of-date fossil fuel power plants and needs funds for a planned solar power plant. Yet it is making plans, in partnership with New England megautility Con Edison (Con Ed) to build an offshore wind [...]
DOE’S PICKS IN HYDROKINETICS (OCEAN ENERGIES)
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Described by some New Energy analysts as the most underdeveloped of the New Energies, hydrokinetic energy (i.e., wave, tide and current energies) could provide the U.S. with as much as 10% of its electricity.
A cumulative $7.3 million in awards from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is a noticeable contribution [...]
What Happens to US Security If Tar Sands Oil Doesn’t Flow? Washington, Ottawa (& Investors) May Find Out
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Currently flying under the radar of the saturation media coverage of Wall Street’s meltdown is trouble of a different but no less serious kind. A spate of recent stories out of Canada and Europe add up to a warning that Canadian tar sands oil production may be significantly less than anticipated.
Now if this [...]
5 Countries, 5 Companies, 5 Reasons to Pay Attention: #3 – U.S.’s Trinity Industries
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EnergyTechStocks.com is read by investors in over 100 countries. That makes us keenly aware of the need to throw a spotlight on intriguing-looking companies all over the world. This week we highlight five companies from five different countries (Scotland, China, the United States, Canada and Finland), each of which may be of interest [...]
ETS Investor Alert 9-24-08
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The wind power industry is subsidized so much that wind energy has become an expensive and inefficient way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), a new report claims. www.telegraph.co.uk
The report, from a think tank called the Renewable Energy Foundation, says wind farms should be considered unprofitable enterprises that rely on subsidies from consumers [...]
MICHIGAN WINS NEW ENERGY GAME, BOOM TO FOLLOW – HOW ABOUT THE NATION?
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From an editorial in the Detroit Free Press: “Welcome, renewable energy. Welcome, energy efficiency. Welcome, stability for the big utility companies in Michigan.”
The “welcome” was for passage of legislation instituting a Renewable Electricity Standard (RES) for the state.
Michigan’s new RES requires the state’s utilities to obtain 10% of their power [...]
ABOUT THAT NEW HAMPSHIRE NEW ENERGY BOOM
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In 2007, New Hampshire established a Renewable Electricity Standard (RES) requiring the state’s utilities to obtain 25% of their power from New Energy sources by 2025. It includes a “solar carve-out” requiring a small but specific portion of the required New Energy to be solar.
Subsequently, the New Energy industries in [...]
NEW TRANSMISSION – A BIG STEP TOWARD A MIDWEST ECONOMIC BOOM
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In a move that would make T. Boone Pickens tingle, The Midwest Governor’s Association announced The Upper Midwest Transmission Development Initiative (UMTDI). It is a regional transmission planning effort aimed at bringing Pickens’ vision of the Midwest as “the Saudi Arabia of wind” one step closer to reality.The winds, Midwesterners [...]
CO2 (Pt. 2 of 2) – Carbon Trading May Be Dead For Now In US, But Billions Will Continue to Pour Into CCS
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While last week’s financial meltdown killed for now a nationwide carbon trading market in the United States, globally billions of dollars will continue to be spent on developing carbon capture and sequestration technology (CCS).
As much as Americans won’t be willing to pay higher utility bills to curb global warming, neither will they – [...]
ETS Investor Alert 9-23-08
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With spot crude prices shooting up $25 a barrel at one point in the wake of the Washington Wall Street bailout www.marketwatch.com gas prices will set new records next summer, even if more Americans cut back more on their driving.
At the same time, the quest by corporations and individuals to reduce their energy [...]
ETS Investor Alert 9-22-08
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The U.S. wind turbine market is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 40% between 2008 and 2013, according to a new research report. www.environmental-expert.com
The report, from BCC Research, estimates market size for systems and components will top $60 billion in 2013 vs. $7.9 billion in 2007.
Just one question: [...]
5 Countries, 5 Companies, 5 Reasons to Pay Attention: #1 – Scotland’s John Wood Group Plc
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EnergyTechStocks.com is read monthly by investors in over 100 countries. That makes us keenly aware of the need to throw a spotlight on intriguing-looking companies all over the world. This week we highlight five companies from five different countries (Scotland, China, the United States, Canada and Finland), each of which may be of [...]
The Stock Market May Be Down, But These Energy Technology Companies Look Like They May Be Headed Up
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Check Out 40 Firms We’ve Written About Recently
4Energy Invest
Accsys Technologies
Acorn Energy
American Superconductor
Azure Dynamics
Bosch
centrotherm photovoltaics
Cantel Medical
Composite Technology
Cree
Echelon
Energy Recovery
Ener1
EnerNOC
General Cable
GreenHunter Energy
Hansen Transmissions
Honeywell
Juhl Wind
Johnson Controls
Kadant
Komax Holding
Lime Energy
Meidensha
Metso
Mitsubish Motors
Northern Offshore
Ormat Technologies
Philips
SQM
Takuma
Telvent GIT
TGS-Nopec
US Geothermal
Valeo
VRB Power Systems
Waterfurnace (formerly WFI)
Wavefield-Inseis
Woodward Governor
Western Wind Energy
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CO2 (Part 1 of 2) – Wall Street’s Meltdown Has Killed For Now A US Carbon Trading System
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One of the biggest victims of last week’s Wall Street meltdown has yet to be identified. Its name is the global environment.
The idea of a nationwide U.S. cap-and-trade system to reduce carbon dioxide emissions was in trouble before last week as business and energy groups flexed their lobbying muscle on behalf of the [...]
SHOWDOWN ON TAX CREDITS
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Everything is up in the air now except the economic indicators, which are down in the gutter.
Last Thursday afternoon, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev) promised the debate on the vital tax extenders package and all its attendant compromise energy issues would be Tuesday, September 23. It looked like the [...]
BREAKTHROUGH BERKELEY SOLAR FINANCE PLAN APPROVED
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By now, just about anybody who cares has heard Tom Friedman tell Cal Tech Professor Nate Lewis’ story illustrating the problem for rooftop solar installations: A cell phone was easy to sell at initial expensive prices because nobody had one. Solar energy-generated electricity is a tough sell at initial high [...]
LIVIN’ LARGER WITH SMALL WIND
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Like all other wind energy projects, the key to success with small wind turbines is location.
Generally, the more interference there is to wind flow, the less electricity a small turbine generates. That’s why authorities discourage installing small turbines (100-to-500 watt capacities to 2.5-to-50 kilowatt capacities) in urban environments. But there [...]
RUSSIANS WANT NEW ENERGY & PUTIN WANTS NUKES
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A recent poll showed 57% of Russians see New Energy as a more promising answer to the question of their nation’s future energy needs than new oil development. 19% prefer oil. Only 7% of Russians see nuclear energy as the best solution for Russia’s future. While the poll was being [...]
PERUVIAN WIND
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From a recent issue of Living in Peru: “…with its abundant desert wind and sunshine, the coastal country [of Peru] is ripe for development of alternative energy…”
NewEnergyNews’ Sunday World reports have previously chronicled wind development in Chile, Brazil and Mexico. Mexico is also developing solar energy. Brazil is, of course, [...]
