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Sunday, November 8, 2009
November 8th, 2009:Green Energy Stocks investing news
Here are some recent news articles and blog posts on renewable power and clean energy stocks:
Dow 20,000 Secular Trend; Green Energy Stocks Investing
As the major secular component of the twenty-teenies bull markets, clean power technology stocks have both a secular component and an industrial, growth-oriented secular core. Sure they can rally with oil prices in a hot commodity environment, but in a period of more stable fuel prices, they have the potential to surprise with revenue and earnings growth. The key would be to accumulate during both secular and cyclical dips, and sell into secular and cyclical conversions.
Some of the key alternative energy sectors to watch:
Green energy stocks can fall a lot harder than the general market when commodities like gold and oil are in corrections; sector-related dips like these are great times to accumulate shares in the best firms, and confirm the value of dollar-cost averaging plans for green mutual funds.
Some of the solar energy stocks can trade in a similar pattern to silicon valley technology stocks, and buying opportunities can occur when tech stocks in general are down. Don't assume all green energy stocks trade the same, as the pattern of an Applied Materials may be different than a Vestas or an Ormat.
The post-Bush rally in global equity markets will have hiccups but will endure, for three main reasons:
1. The bottom is low by historical standards; generally when you can get stocks at prices similar to a decade earlier, value will emerge over the next decade.
2. The nature of the liquidity scare and bailout / stimulus mean a lot of anti-deflation moves, which are by nature inflationary. The Dow may need to go to 20,000 just to keep pace with US inflation over the next seven to eight years. If USA markets exhibit strength, global markets will feel more confident.
3. USA real estate prices are way behind Canadian, Asian and European numbers in these early stages of the recovery, which means that Americans will likely experience a sustained and substantial rise in home equity over the next five years. Rising real estate and stock prices tend to reinforce one another, as profits from one can be diversified into the other, while losses in one are not there to drag the other.
In summary, as is typical of a Democratic government, the USA is likely to experience a major bull market during Barack Obama's Presidency, and the green energy sectors (solar, wind, geothermal, biofuels, wave energy / tidal power+++) will rotate through leadership positions and provide the overall economic engine for North America's transition to a relatively pollution-free, infinite energy based sustainable society in the first half of the twenty-first century.
Peace and Prosperity 2 All!
Saturday, October 3, 2009
Green Energy Stocks Investment Research Reports
I have found that many of the top clean power technology companies remain uncovered by Wall Street and Bay Street equity analysts. If anybody knows of a website that has a lot of this type of information (for example, research reports on FSLR FirstSolar, ORA Ormat Tech etc), please post the link in the Comments section for everyone to use, thanks kindly.
Here are some alternative energy stocks / renewable power investing website and blog links:
Useful Alternative Energy Investing Websites:
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Green Energy Stocks in the News - September 2009
Here are some recent news articles, online research reports and blog posts about clean power stocks and green energy investing:
Monday, May 18, 2009
Smart Meters energizing Ontario utilities, enabling conservation and time shifting
The following article appeared in The Toronto Star on page B2, Monday May 18, 2009:
Future of Residential Power Management
The pilot project, conducted between July 2007 and Sept. 2008, was a collaboration between Milton Hydro, Direct Energy and Bell Canada. Households were given the ability to monitor their energy use through the Internet, as well as through BlackBerry-like devices, and to remotely control the lighting and operation of appliances in their homes.
An easy-to-use Web interface, designed by Toronto-based Lixar SRS, gave them a detailed view of how much electricity individual appliances were using at any point in time.
The results showed that one in 10 households given the control used 16 per cent less electricity over 12 months and 18 per cent less during peak periods.
Just 10 per cent of participants achieved the higher savings, which could be interpreted as a poor result. But the point of the pilot was to show what could be done, not necessarily what's likely to be done today.
The challenge now is to refine the technology alongside the introduction of energy conservation programs and policies that drive behavioural change.
Change is coming, and local utilities seem energized by the opportunity. Ontario passed its Green Energy Act last week, making conservation a priority as the province evolves its electricity system.
Also last week, Toronto Hydro announced that its first 10,000 residential customers will get shifted on June 1 to time-of-use pricing now that a substantial number of GTA homes have a smart meter.
The utility hopes to have all single-family homes on the new pricing by year's end, and since peak pricing is more than double off-peak pricing, you can bet that over time households will desire, if not demand, more control over their power consumption.
Energy management is also a major component of Burlington Hydro's GridSmartCity demonstration project, announced last week. Company president David Collie says local utilities are realizing that their businesses are no longer just about pushing electrons to homes. Utilities are morphing into multi-faceted energy companies that can influence change in a community, and enabling conservation is now a big part of the job.
There still exists, however, some skepticism in the market. Some energy executives downplay the new high-tech tools that give homeowners more control.
All the bells and whistles are overkill, they argue, adding that most people don't have the time to monitor their energy use or participate in demand-response programs.
There's an element of truth there, but only for those stuck in the present.
Don't believe it? Then ask yourself why Internet giant Google announced in February that it was entering the residential energy-management market with prototype software called PowerMeter? The software, which is expected to be distributed for free, offers the same kind of feedback on power use that homeowners got from the Milton Hydro trial using Lixar SRS's technology.
Google has also teamed up with General Electric on smart grid development.
It's about more than simply knowing how much power your home or an individual appliance is consuming. It's about tracking and analyzing historical use.
You can't improve it if you can't measure it.
Monday, May 11, 2009
Robert Redford's eloquent plea for Utah Green Energy Plan, innovation
Legendary movie star and progressive social activist Robert Redford recently published an alternative energy article in the Salt Lake Tribune and it was picked up by the Huffington Post today 11may09:
Our leaders need to reconsider their allegiance to the dirty fuels industry, stop their bickering, and act boldly to move America towards a new energy economy.
by Robert Redford
May 11,2009, HuffingtonPost.com
Anyone who knows Utah knows the power of wind, water and sun. You can see that power in Utah's sculpted arches of stone, in our majestic mountains capped with snow, and in the cracked earth of our deserts.
Nature's power is so obvious that you have to wonder why we've mostly ignored it as a source of energy to run our homes and businesses, and to propel our cars and trucks.
After all, if we did a little more to harness that power, we could begin to solve some of our most pressing environmental and economic challenges. In fact, creating electricity from the energy nature gives us is critical if we're going to reduce global warming pollution, protect public health with clean air and water, create jobs in Utah and ultimately bring down energy prices.
We know that burning fossil fuels is destabilizing the atmosphere and acidifying the oceans. We know that our dependence on oil shackles us to dangerous foreign regimes and to the escalating prices they'll inevitably charge as demand outstrips supply. But we also know how to break our dependence and free ourselves from this destructive cycle. Why keep buying foreign crude when we could be making energy right here in Utah from sunlight, wind and geothermal power? Why rip up more pristine wilderness to extract dirty fuels when we could generate clean power from the energy nature delivers to our doorstep?
Dollar for dollar, investing in clean energy creates more jobs than investing in traditional energy sources like oil and gas. That really matters, especially when you consider that more than 30,000 Utah workers lost their jobs last year.
We've got tens of thousands of windy acres here in Utah, sites for geothermal energy abound, and the southern part of the state has tremendous potential for solar power. We will have to carefully pick renewable energy sites that don't endanger critical habitat and wilderness quality land, but the opportunity is vast.
So how can we jump start a home-grown clean energy economy?
Right now Congress is working on a landmark clean energy jobs plan that would boost the amount of wind, solar and other clean energy our country produces. The American Clean Energy and Security Act will also make our vehicles, appliances and buildings more efficient, and update our antiquated electricity grid.
Our investments in clean energy and efficiency today will pay dividends for generations. They will create good, family-sustaining jobs that can't be shipped overseas, and they will lower energy prices in the long run. They will reduce energy dependence and global warming pollution, and make our economy more competitive.
It's true that the economic and environmental challenges we confront are serious. But Americans have never encountered a challenge of any kind that we couldn't overcome by working together and applying our ingenuity.
Full Huffington Post Robert Redford article on renewable energy development in the USA
Our leaders need to reconsider their allegiance to the dirty fuels industry, stop their bickering, and act boldly to move America towards a new energy economy.
by Robert Redford
May 11,2009, HuffingtonPost.com
Anyone who knows Utah knows the power of wind, water and sun. You can see that power in Utah's sculpted arches of stone, in our majestic mountains capped with snow, and in the cracked earth of our deserts.
Nature's power is so obvious that you have to wonder why we've mostly ignored it as a source of energy to run our homes and businesses, and to propel our cars and trucks.
After all, if we did a little more to harness that power, we could begin to solve some of our most pressing environmental and economic challenges. In fact, creating electricity from the energy nature gives us is critical if we're going to reduce global warming pollution, protect public health with clean air and water, create jobs in Utah and ultimately bring down energy prices.
We know that burning fossil fuels is destabilizing the atmosphere and acidifying the oceans. We know that our dependence on oil shackles us to dangerous foreign regimes and to the escalating prices they'll inevitably charge as demand outstrips supply. But we also know how to break our dependence and free ourselves from this destructive cycle. Why keep buying foreign crude when we could be making energy right here in Utah from sunlight, wind and geothermal power? Why rip up more pristine wilderness to extract dirty fuels when we could generate clean power from the energy nature delivers to our doorstep?
Dollar for dollar, investing in clean energy creates more jobs than investing in traditional energy sources like oil and gas. That really matters, especially when you consider that more than 30,000 Utah workers lost their jobs last year.
We've got tens of thousands of windy acres here in Utah, sites for geothermal energy abound, and the southern part of the state has tremendous potential for solar power. We will have to carefully pick renewable energy sites that don't endanger critical habitat and wilderness quality land, but the opportunity is vast.
So how can we jump start a home-grown clean energy economy?
Right now Congress is working on a landmark clean energy jobs plan that would boost the amount of wind, solar and other clean energy our country produces. The American Clean Energy and Security Act will also make our vehicles, appliances and buildings more efficient, and update our antiquated electricity grid.
Our investments in clean energy and efficiency today will pay dividends for generations. They will create good, family-sustaining jobs that can't be shipped overseas, and they will lower energy prices in the long run. They will reduce energy dependence and global warming pollution, and make our economy more competitive.
It's true that the economic and environmental challenges we confront are serious. But Americans have never encountered a challenge of any kind that we couldn't overcome by working together and applying our ingenuity.
Full Huffington Post Robert Redford article on renewable energy development in the USA
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
May 2009 Green Energy Stocks Investing News
Here are some recent blog posts about clean energy stocks and investing in publicly-listed green technology companies:
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