Like a large mouthed bass, I'm snapping at the lure of 10% returns in preferreds, debentures, energy-based master limited partnerships--anything that can survive a major economic contraction.
For stock-pickers seeking smaller U.S. energy companies, Mr. Chandra likes Denver-based SM Energy and Houston-based Oasis Petroleum.
EnviroMission, a solar-energy start-up based in Melbourne, Australia, said today it is moving forward with plans to construct two 200 MW solar-power facilities in Arizona.
In the 11-state Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator grid, coal-plant utilization has fallen to 45 to 55 percent from 70 to 80 percent in 2010-11, according to RBN, a Houston-based energy market-research firm.
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Energy Management, a 28-year-old energy company based in New England, plans to build a 468-megawatt wind power facility off the coast of Massachusetts: the Cape Wind project.
Lightbridge Corporation, a pioneering nuclear-energy start-up company based in McLean, VA, is developing the Radkowsky Thorium Reactor in collaboration with Russian researchers.
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The Perth-based energy supplier was hit by asset write-offs affecting profit figures.
David Pimentel of Cornell and Tad W. Patzek of Berkeley reported, just in time for Congress to enshrine this atrocity in the energy bill, that corn-based ethanol consumes more energy than it yields.
The time has come for a concrete pro-energy agenda based on market incentives, not rhetorical tricks.
Leviton, the Melville, NY-based manufacturer of lighting management systems, data networking solutions and electrical wiring devices, said it plans to buy Obvius, the energy-management start-up company based in Portland, Oregon.
Summit Energy has developed a software-based, real-time energy management solution that allows users to save energy.
Despite all the talk of grid-based energy storage, the least expensive solution to the variability of wind and solar power is geographic dispersion, according to Leo Casey, Chief Technology Officer of Boston-based inverter company Satcon Technology, (NASD:SATC) speaking at the Building Energy 11 conference in Boston on March 9th.
Yesterday, rumors that U.K.-based miner Anglo-American may bid for U.S.-based coal-producer Walter Energy (WLT), spurred by The Times of London newspaper, resulted in a 21% jump in WLT shares.
Earlier this week, the Edison Electric Institute, the industry group for investor-owned utilities, circulated a letter in the House urging lawmakers not to vote for the RPS. Corporations such as Atlanta-based Southern Company and Charlotte-based Duke Energy hold firm that a renewable mandate is a state issue, not a federal one.
Earlier this week, the Edison Electric Institute, the industry group for investor-owned utilities, circulated a letter in the House urging lawmakers not to vote for the RPS. Corporations such as Atlanta-based Southern Company and Charlotte-based Duke Energy (nyse: DUK - news - people ) hold firm that a renewable mandate is a state issue, not a federal one.
Installed by UGE Iberia, the Spanish branch of New York-based Urban Green Energy, the first wind-powered EV charging station is located at Cespa's global headquarters near Barcelona.
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The ultimate in energy efficiency will come when power producers can turn on and off small substations at a moments notice based on real-time data on energy consumption at a household level, and consumers can make power purchasing decision based on real-time metering of their consumption.
Direct competitors to Suntech Power, according to Revere Data, include Baoding, China-based Yingli Green Energy Holding and JA Solar Holdings, based in Ningjin, China.
Energy consumption would drop by 80 percent since memory-based systems consume less energy and require fewer air conditioners.
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In some markets, some of the time, biomass, geothermal, landfill gas and waste-to-energy can compete on price with carbon-based fuels.
Pylons are a necessary evil if we are to wean ourselves off carbon-based energy.
The best performer from last year: Korea-based energy giant SK , which rose 357%.
The Venezuela-owned PDVSA, which owns the Houston-based energy giant Citgo, has multiple energy deals in Iran.
For technical, policy, and financial reasons, risks are often higher for renewables than fossil-based energy.
The way we live our lives would dramatically change if oil-based energy becomes economically out of reach.
For both of those reasons, there is ample justification to continue developing a non fossil-based energy future.
The energy needed to produce a gallon of corn-based ethanol can exceed the energy generated by the ethanol itself.
Another big energy buy was Houston-based Oil States International (nyse: OIS - news - people ).
Natural gas is considered to be a bridge fuel between crude oil and the clean hydrogen-based energy sources of the future.
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