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Submitted by New Energy News Blog
Here’s what ought to be going on offshore.
A reader recently mentioned to NewEnergyNews how beautiful the UK offshore wind installations look from a plane passing over the [...]
Coaly Moleys
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
Please review this before showing it to any kids. It’s those Australians, you know.
Backstory: Greenpeace Australia is fighting the government’s decision to subsidize Big Coal’s participation in [...]
CAN NEW ENERGY BEAT THE ECONOMY?
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
The WilderHill New Energy Global Innovation (NEX) Index has fallen 38% since early September. It tracks the New Energy investment market. The Dow Jones Industrials dropped 19% in the same period.
Michael Schirber, science and energy writer: “Is there any silver lining for alternative energy in this gloomy financial market? Like [...]
WIND CAN (BEAT THE ECONOMY)
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
The wind power industry continues to affirm the fact about New Energy the Old Energy world is just beginning to come to terms with: Wind Power is not small and green, it is big and clean and it is cost effective and mainstream.
Randall Swisher, Executive Director, American Wind Energy Association [...]
GOOD STORIES THERE WASN’T TIME TO GET TO THIS WEEK
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
A NewEnergyNews Friday feature.
AUSTRALIA TO BE BETTER PLACE
Electric-Car Maker Sets Sights on Australia; Better Place Hopes to Raise $669 Million for Ambitious Plan
John Murphy, October 23, 2008 (Wall Street Journal)
“Even as tumbling gasoline prices threaten to undermine consumer interest in alternative-fuel cars, Better Place, a California-based electric-vehicle company, Thursday said [...]
Investor Alert: JPMorgan Chase Sees Hybrid Car Costs Dropping As Much As 67% Over Next 10 Years
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
JPMorgan Chase last week made one of the most significant energy forecasts of 2008, predicting that over the next 10 years carmakers’ hybrid car production costs will drop by as much as two-thirds.
As the blog Current.com noted, “If hybrids drop in price and gasoline resumes its peak-driven trend upward, then by, say 2015, [...]
5 Investment Themes for 2009 (& Firms That Should Benefit) #2: 145,000+ Miles Of HV Wire to String
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
Editor’s Note: In keeping with its mission to be solely a new source, this EnergyTechStocks.com Special Report is presented for information purposes only.
Posted: October 28, 2008
In its recent public warning that the U.S. could suffer a crippling blackout as soon as the summer of 2009, the nonprofit group NextGen Energy Council zeroed in [...]
ETS Investor Alert 10-28-08
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
Not surprisingly, given the current credit crisis, the U.S. Energy Department reports that requests for nuclear loan guarantees far exceeds available funds. apps1.eere.energy.gov
Just another bit of evidence that America’s nuclear power “revival” may not happen any time soon, notwithstanding the country’s critical need for more power generation that is emissions-free.
Until tomorrow.
Rating 3.00 out [...]
Investor Alert: Big Oil May Be Close to Taking Control of the Biofuels Industry
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
The evidence is still anecdotal, but it’s starting to look like major oil and gas companies will soon seize control of the biofuel industry from the independent firms that launched the ethanol and biodiesel businesses only a few years ago.
For Big Oil, taking over the biofuels industry is smart business. Begin with the fact that [...]
ETS Investor Alert 10-27-08
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
“There is a huge gap between world demand for fish and what we can harvest from the world’s natural stocks,” according to a recent article, on the Web Site Science Daily. “If we don’t do something about the over fishing, the stocks of wild fish will be dealt a death blow.” www.sciencedaily.com
Environmentalists aren’t [...]
5 Investment Themes for 2009 (& Firms That Should Benefit) #1: Wind Power Should Stay Strong
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Editor’s Note: In keeping with its mission to be solely a new source, this EnergyTechStocks.com Special Report is presented for information purposes only.
Posted: October 27, 2008
There’s $1 billion worth of government subsidies available in Canada to wind power developers, but not all of it may claimed because, as a spokesman for the Canadian [...]
John McCain Could Still Win This Election By Throwing A ‘Green Hail Mary’
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
John McCain could win the White House by throwing a “Green Hail Mary.”
McCain’s mantra between now and Nov. 4 should be:
We can save money, save the economy, save our national security, and save the planet, if we are willing to come together as a nation and wage an “energy efficiency revolution” in the [...]
ETS Investor Alert 10-24-08
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
A company in England claims that its new “artificial tree” is “more powerful than wind farms, more efficient than solar panels, and more practical and aesthetically pleasing than both.” www.ct-si.org
The company, Solar Botanic, claims its tree-looking green power plant uses the latest in nanotechnology. At the heart of the company’s proprietary technology is [...]
Investment Adviser Dan Scotto’s 10 Rules For How to Avoid The ‘Next Enron’
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
President & CIO, Whitehall Financial Advisors LLC
Number 1: Purchase a copy of Security Analysis by Graham & Dodd. The authors’ investment basics provide fundamental principles that have stood the test of time since its initial publication over 70 years ago.
Number 2: Be a customer. As a consumer you’re often the best critic of [...]
That Trading Emissions Plc Hasn’t Yet Tanked With The Market Bodes Well For Carbon Trading Firms
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
Since the stock market started tanking a few weeks ago, the blogosphere has been overrun with contradictory stories about whether the credit crisis will undercut the boom in green energy development.
While the jury’s still out – and will stay out until the length of the crisis becomes clearer – green investors have reason [...]
NEW ENERGY CAUGHT BETWEEN THE COST AND THE NEED
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
People all over the New Energy community are wondering one thing.
V. John White, executive director, Center for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Technology (CEERT): “Everyone is in shock about what the new world is going to be…Surely, renewable energy projects and new technologies are at risk because of their capital intensity.”
Are [...]
3TIER MAPS THE SUN
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
3TIER – rapidly becoming THE name in the New Energy resource mapping field – has been invited to present its most recent maps and conclusions to the United Nations’ NGO Committee on Sustainable Development. This is emblematic of the achievement by 3TIER CEO Ken Westrick, who started developing his idea [...]
BIG NEWS IN UK OFFSHORE WIND
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
UK offshore wind has been generating powerful news this week.
Ahead of the annual British Wind Energy Association (BWEA) conference, German utility giant E.ON announced it had secured funding to proceed with the world’s biggest offshore installation, the 1,000-megawatt London Array. (See ABU DHABI FUNDS UK OFFSHORE WIND)
Nevertheless, UK developers replied [...]
FOR STIMULUS – HOW ABOUT NEW TRANSMISSION FOR NEW ENERGY?
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
For economic stimulus, how about an ambitious infrastructure project? How about an energy superhighway system ready to carry all the New Energy the nation’s entrepreneurs, now unleashed by the extension of investment and production tax credits, can build?
Integrating Locationally-Constrained Resources Into Transmission Systems: A Survey Of U.S. Practices, a new [...]
WHAT CANADIAN WIND NEEDS
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
Wind Vision, the Canadian Wind Energy Association (CanWEA) report on the state of the nation’s wind development and what it will take for wind to play a major role in Canadian power generation, says that with effective policies and incentives from Canada’s federal and provincial governments, wind energy could build [...]
WHAT HAWAII WILL DO WITH NEW ENERGY
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
At the prompting of Hawaii’s leaders, Hawaiian Electric Co., the state’s biggest utility has agreed to a goal of generating 70% of Hawaii’s electricity from New Energy sources by 2030.
The bold plan includes the development of 1,100 megawatts of New Energy capacity. The utility also agreed to build no new [...]
Frost & Sullivan Highlights A123 Systems, Ener1 and Panasonic EV in New Forecast Of Strong EV Battery Growth
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
Noted consulting firm Frost & Sullivan’s new electric vehicle battery forecast is for strong growth in hybrid, but not all-electric, car batteries over the next several years, with at least three companies – A123 Systems, Ener1 and Panasonic – particularly well-positioned to take advantage.
In the report’s executive summary, which was made available to [...]
ETS Investor Alert 10-23-08
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
Here’s fresh evidence that getting public support for climate change legislation in tough economic times may be difficult.
A think tank in England has issued a report that concludes the European Union’s energy policy will cost the British taxpayer (Pounds) 150 per year. www.greenbang.com
While environmentalists disagree, the more the public hears about the cost [...]
Investor Warning: More People Living Near Wind Farms Say Turbines Cause Health Problems
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
An increasing number of people are reporting health problems they say are caused by living near wind turbines, and experts wouldn’t be surprised if a spate of class-action lawsuits they expect to be filed in the coming months has a chilling effect on the global wind power industry.
One U.S. based energy analyst, recently [...]
Investor Warning: Rapid Pace of Solar Technology Advances Should Keep Investors Thinking Short Term
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
The rapid pace of solar technology development should keep investors thinking short term, ready to consider selling shares in an existing solar technology development company if it looks like the latest tech breakthrough could cause that company to finish out of the money.
In just the last two weeks there have been two announcements [...]
