The biggest losers among the red lights were Calpine, off 80% since last year's list, and Ivax, off 58%.
At the other end of the spectrum: Peter Cartwright of Calpine, a firm that develops and runs gas-fired power plants.
Dr Alamaro is working on the idea in collaboration with Calpine Corporation, a power company based in San Jose, California.
Calpine has agreed to let him build a pilot greenhouse next to one of its natural-gas-powered generating plants probably the one in Dighton, Massachusetts.
And it's bad news for the dicier power vendors, such as Calpine, Dynegy, Mirant and Reliant Resources, which may find it hard to find trading partners.
The acquisition will nearly double Calpine's natural gas reserves and allow it to more readily transport reserves between western Canada and California and the eastern United States.
Recently added to hefty stake in power producer Calpine Corp.
Calpine received an unsolicited takeover approach from NRG Energy.
Calpine, which operates 46 power plants and two natural gas companies in the U.S., is expected to be one of the main builders of big "baseload" power plants in California, which is suffering an energy crisis.
Companies the FERC accuses of gaming include Sempra Energy (nyse: SRE - news - people ), Canadian provincial utility BC Hydro, Avista (nyse: AVA - news - people ), American Electric Power (nyse: AEP - news - people ), Duke Energy (nyse: DUK - news - people ), Mirant (nyse: MIR - news - people ), Dynegy (nyse: DYN - news - people ), Calpine (nyse: CPN - news - people ), Reliant, Williams Cos. (nyse: WMB - news - people ) and Constellation Energy Group (nyse: CEG - news - people ).
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