Archive for November, 2008
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With the stock market in the tank and a global recession setting in, even many major green energy developers are cutting plans for 2009. For smaller guys – including a number that EnergyTechStocks.com has positively written about – 2009 shapes up as a very difficult year.
For those wishing to trim their green portfolios, [...]
Trimming Your Green Portfolio (Part 2 of 3) Verenium Corp. and Evergreen Solar Inc.
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
With the stock market in the tank and a global recession setting in, even many major green energy developers are cutting plans for 2009. For smaller guys – including a number that EnergyTechStocks.com has positively written about – 2009 shapes up as a very difficult year.
For those wishing to trim their green portfolios, [...]
ETS Investor Alert 11-26-08
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
A new report warns that climate change places at risk about $2.5 trillion of real estate assets in California. www.latimes.com
The report from UC Berkeley researchers concludes the annual cost of climate-caused weather events and rising sea levels could cost the state between $300 million and $3.9 billion per year.
That’s just one state in [...]
Boy Does It Looks Like Obama is Getting Ready to Reintroduce the McCain- Lieberman Climate Change Bill
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
First came the well-publicized meeting in Chicago between President-elect Obama and his defeated rival John McCain during which, by all accounts, a spirit of bipartisanship was in the air.
Next came the decision by the Senate Democratic leadership not to strip Joe Lieberman of his chairmanship of a powerful committee, a decision commentators suggested [...]
Trimming Your Green Portfolio (Part 1 of 3) EnerNOC Inc. and Beacon Power Corp.
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
With the stock market in the tank and a global recession setting in, even many major green energy developers are cutting plans for 2009. For smaller guys – including a number that EnergyTechStocks.com has positively written about – 2009 shapes up as a very difficult year.
For those wishing to trim their green portfolios, [...]
How US is Losing the Plug-in Race (Part 2 of 2) – Batteries And Recharging Stations Being Built, But Not in US
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
At the rate things are going, relatively few of the millions of lithium-ion batteries that will power the new generation of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) will be manufactured in the United States.
Currently only one American firm, Florida-based Ener1, makes lithium-ion batteries in the U.S., according to Michael Millikin of the web site [...]
ETS Investor Alert 11-25-08
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
In another sign of the rapid growth in carbon trading, Spain has made what is believed to be the largest single purchase of emissions credits. www.reuters.com
Spain bought six million credits from Hungary, part of a 4-year program to purchase a total of 159 million credits.
Until tomorrow.
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NEW ENERGY’S NEEDS AND PRESIDENT-ELECT OBAMA’S PLAN
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
Time Magazine couldn’t ask a more timely question: Is Obama’s Energy Plan Enough?
It even kicks off with a beautiful thought: “With the possible exception of Barack Obama’s puppy-anticipating daughters, no one is more eagerly awaiting the incoming Administration than the leaders of the renewable-energy industries.”
Wisely, it leaves the puppy-love in [...]
IN LANDMARK DECISION, WASH STATE SUPREME COURT APPROVES WIND
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
There are some very good reasons not to build a wind installation somewhere. Endangered species, threatened habitat, compromised ecosystems and dwindling wilderness are among them.
Spoiling somebody’s view doesn’t qualify.
There are those who are convinced the only solution to modern society’s need for energy is a return to a simpler way [...]
INTERNATIONAL SOLAR COMPANY IN BIG 3Q EARNINGS
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
A San Francisco solar engineering and manufacturing company partnered with Shanghai subsidiaries to grow its sales 546%, its profits 41% and its income 327% in 2008.
Sound like a good investment?
Worldwide Energy and Manufacturing USA, Inc. (Worldwide). Trades over-the-counter.
Revenue and gross profit were up due to solar module sales. Energy division [...]
WORLD WANTS NEW ENERGY – POLL
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
A new poll leaves little room for doubt: New Energy is an idea whose time has come.
The unequivocal conclusiveness of the numbers leaves NewEnergyNews, normally ready to elaborate, with little to add.
The poll finds that majorities around the world want their governments to emphasize New Energy more and coal, oil [...]
EU “CLEAN” COAL TESTS LOSING SUPPORT
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
A meme is something with implied – but not necessarily real – meaning that passes from person to person. The coal industry has bought and paid for the meme “clean” coal and it has been spending itself silly for several years trying to make it meaningful.
A Professor at CalTech recently [...]
BP SOLAR PULLS OUT OF AUSTRALIA FOR LOWER OVERHEAD
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
BP Solar has refused a bailout package and will shut down Australia’s only photovoltaic cell plant in March.
This is not a happy story but it is an important story and needs to be reported.
BP Solar is closing its Australia plant and will move to a location where costs are lower. [...]
ETS Investor Alert 11-24-08
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New coal-fired power plants may be required to have equipment that controls their carbon dioxide emissions. www.usatoday.com
About 100 proposed plants could be affected.
Current U.S. policy doesn’t require CO2 controls on coal-fired power plants, but the federal Environmental Protection Agency’s own appeals board ruled against the agency’s plan to permit a plant in Utah [...]
Will the Credit Crisis Ruin This Canadian Wind Energy Company’s ‘Milestone’ Agreement?
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AAER Inc. is a small Canadian wind turbine manufacturer that trades on the TSX Venture Exchange. Last month it signed what the company called a “milestone” agreement to sell 61 of its patented wind turbines to Mont Louis Wind L.P. in a deal AAER valued at more than $115 million. The transaction is [...]
How US is Losing the Plug-in Race (Part 1 of 2) - Washington Giving Japan Technology Developed with US Taxpayer $
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“At the moment, GM is ahead of the Japanese on plug-in hybrids because it is the only company with a production date,” Felix Kramer, one of America’s foremost advocates of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), last week told EnergyTechStocks.com.
But even though U.S. taxpayers may soon have to pay for a car industry bailout [...]
The 2008 IEA WEO - Renewable Energy Highlights
Submitted by R-Squared Energy Blog
I am working on an essay on the renewable energy portion of the recently released 2008 IEA World Energy Outlook. In Part I, I merely present some of the highlights of the report (actually the notes I jotted down as I read it). Part II will involve more commentary and analysis. [...]
New Energy Is Clean Energy
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
One for the kids and the kids at heart. “Let’s make more!”
From tictocplanet via YouTube.
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The Car Of Tomorrow?
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
Aptera. “Safe and visually stunning while achieving 300 miles-per-gallon.” Not science fiction. Look for it on the streets in 2009.
From Aptera via GreenEnergyTV.
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What Everybody Has Been Waiting For
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
This is it. The solution to the energy needs of humankind. After this, there are no more frontiers.
From alternateenergy2008 via YouTube.
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WIND ENERGY’S TEAM OF RIVALS
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
Reporting from the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) Fall Symposium, Accelerating Wind Energy Growth Towards 20%:
Financing, not surprisingly, is what people in the wind industry are talking about. Financing is tougher than it has been in a long time. Turbines are costly. More transmission will soon be needed. Solar power [...]
$1.5-to-$2 TRILLION FOR ENOUGH ENERGY IN 2030 – BRATTLE GROUP
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
From Transforming America’s Power Industry: The Investment Challenge 2010-2030: “The U.S. electric utility industry faces the greatest challenge in its history.”
How’s that for high drama? Grabs the attention, doesn’t it?
But it’s not really news. The point is pretty basic: Demand for electricity is increasing and is not likely to significantly [...]
GOOD STORIES THERE WASN’T TIME TO GET TO THIS WEEK (11-21)
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
A NewEnergyNews Friday feature.
WIND IN RETAIL
Wal-Mart buys wind energy supply
November 20, 2008 (AP)
“Wal-Mart Stores Inc. says it has invested in a wind energy farm in Texas that will generate enough power to light 15 percent of its Texas operations…The world’s largest retailer said Thursday the Duke Energy farm is being [...]
2 New Official Reports Shout Out That America’s Electric Reliability Is In Great Danger
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
Two new reports – one from the President’s Council of Advisers on Science and Technology (PCAST), the other from the North American Electric Reliability Council (NERC) – add up to the starkest warning yet that America’s electric reliability is in great danger.
The PCAST report’s main point is that the federal government appears to [...]
Drowning in Red Ink, Don’t Be Surprised if Governments Go Orwellian and Impose Eco-Sin Taxes on Cars & Homes
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
There’s cigarettes, alcohol and . . . protecting the environment?
With governments everywhere running deep in the red, don’t be surprised if politicians everywhere try to raise money by slapping a “sin tax” on people whose actions are seen as a threat to the environment.
The most obvious way to go is to put an [...]
