Hot Tech, Part 2: Investors Should Keep Their Eyes on Eliiy Power, Cereplast and Rentech
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
With this article, EnergyTechStocks.com continues its series on the newest advances in energy technology that could pay off big for investors in the coming carbon-constrained world. (For Part 1 see Hot Tech, Part 1: Investors Should Keep Their Eyes on SKF, Ener1 And Valeo SA)
The golden rule in alternative energy investing is keep your bets small and spread them around, because so much is changing all at once and any company may – or may not – be a jackpot, including those many investors probably haven’t heard of yet, such as:
Japan’s Eliiy Power, which has developed what could be a transformational product: a large-format lithium-ion battery that one day may sit in the basements of tens or even hundreds of millions of homes, providing the battery storage capacity needed to make a house a green, carbon-neutral, self-sustaining power producer. (Jackpot!)
Eliiy isn’t publicly traded, but its big-name owners are, and such is the potential long-term value of Eliiy’s residential battery storage system that investors may want to consider placing a small bet on its backers. They include: Sharp Corp. (Symbol SHCAY), Daiwa House Industry Co. (Symbol DWAHY) and Dai Nippon Printing Co. (Symbol DNPLY).
A better-known company, Rentech Inc. (Symbol RTK), has previously been on investors’ radar screens for its efforts to convert coal into synthetic gas and liquid motor fuel using a process environmentalists hate because it produces a lot of greenhouse gas emissions. But now Rentech has announced it’s going to build a plant designed to have a near-zero carbon footprint. The plant will produce both renewable synthetic fuels and renewable electric power. Rather than coal, the feedstock will be biomass.
Another unknown company, Cereplast Inc. (Symbol CERP), also could have a transformative impact, specifically on plastics manufacturing. Tiny Cereplast manufactures bio-based sustainable plastics, as opposed to petroleum-based plastics. While it has been suffering in the recession, a giant oil or plastics manufacturer could at some point look upon Cereplast’s technology as valuable in the coming carbon-constrained world, in which bio-based manufacturing will earn it tradable carbon “credits.”
