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Opportunities & Risks In Clean Energy Funds (PBW, TSLA, SOLR, SQM, PPO, TAN, FSLR, MYBUF, TSL, SPWRA, GEX, CREE, ICLN, OEZVF, EOC, KWT, WFR)

Posted: June 8, 2011 at 1:01 pm

Clean energy funds first sprung up in about 2005, with the PowerShares WilderHill Clean Energy Fund (NYSE: PBW). Others have followed, but for the most part these funds have fairly ...
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Germany Rethinks Cuts to Solar Subsidies (FSLR, SPWRA, TSL, YGE, STP)

Posted: June 6, 2011 at 12:30 pm

Today's alt-energy news focuses on a change to Germany's plans to cut back on subsidies for solar projects.  Germany has had the most liberal incentive program of any country for ...
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Alt-Energy Watch: Germany Phases Out Nukes Versus Solar PV Prices Falling (UEC, URG, URZ, URRE, GE, ARVCY, JASO, FSLR, LDK, STP, YGE, TSL, TAN)

Posted: May 31, 2011 at 12:11 pm

Today's alternative energy news is dominated by the German government's decision to phase out nuclear power generation in the country. If the decision holds up, it could be very good ...
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Alternative Energy Watch: Swiss Nix Nuclear Energy; Chinese Renewables Firm Withdraws IPO Again; Northeast Utility Sells Last Wind Farm (CHG, DUK, DATE, RENN)

Posted: May 27, 2011 at 12:35 pm

Today's alt energy news begins with a decision in Switzerland to phase out nuclear power generation. A Chinese renewables firm has withdrawn its IPO for a second time and CH ...
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Alternative Energy Watch: European Headwinds for Solar; New Rules for Biomass Generation in Massachusetts; Bill Gates Pushes Nukes (STP, TSL, YGE, FSLR, MSFT, USU)

Posted: May 4, 2011 at 11:48 am

Today's alternative energy news includes recent changes to Italian solar subsidies, restrictions on biomass electricity generation, and comments by Bill Gates on energy innovation. After 10 years of booming growth, ...
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Japan’s Oil Demand Could Rise — or Fall

Posted: April 20, 2011 at 9:11 am

There are seriously diverging views on the demand for oil in Japan as the country works to recover from the devastation caused by the earthquake and tsunami that struck the ...
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Shaw Group Confession, Trouble for Nuclear Power Players (SHAW, URS, BWC, FLR, ES)

Posted: April 11, 2011 at 11:20 am

It's not likely that earnings and revenues for The Shaw Group Inc. (NYSE: SHAW) took too great a hit from the nuclear disaster in Japan, but what happens for the ...
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Alternative Energy Watch: US Nukes Safe Americans Tell Gallup; Wind Installations Lag in 2010 (ARVCF, EXC, DE, AMAT, ASML, WFR, SPWRA, STP, YGE, XEL, GE, PCG)

Posted: April 5, 2011 at 11:18 am

It is time for our daily review of the alternative energy sector. The pollsters at Gallup asked US citizens in the last week of March if they thought US nuclear ...
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Alternative Energy Watch: Renewable Investment; No Vermont Yankee Buyer; Cloudy Days for Solar (RDS-A, CZZ, EXC, DE, SI, ETR)

Posted: March 31, 2011 at 11:45 am

Here's our daily report on developments in solar and wind power, alternative fuels, and other news related to the alternative energy sector. PricewaterhouseCoopers has released a report on M&A activity ...
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Alternative Energy Daily: Nukes Face Less Certain Future (CCJ, PALAF, ADM, VLO)

Posted: March 22, 2011 at 3:01 pm

It's time for the 3:00 PM "Alternative Energy Daily" for developments in solar and wind power, alternative fuels, and other news related to the sector.  As with so much in the past ...
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US Companies That Will Replace Japan’s Nuclear Generation Shortfall (BTU, ACI, ANR, CNX, XOM, CVX, COP, CHK)

Posted: March 17, 2011 at 1:11 pm

Japanese officials have confirmed 4,340 dead and 9,083 still missing as a result of the earthquake and tsunami that hit the country a week ago, according to London's Daily Mail ...
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Are U.S. Nuclear Power Plant Operators Really at Business Risk? (CCJ, USU, XLU, AEE, CEG, ETR, EXC, FE, PGN, SO)

Posted: March 16, 2011 at 4:35 pm

It goes without saying that nuclear power has hit skid row.  The damage to the industry that has been caused by the earthquake and the tsunami which followed in Japan ...
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Fukushima Reactors Same Age, Design as Vermont Yankee (ETR, GE)

Posted: March 15, 2011 at 12:10 pm

It's no surprise that the disaster at Japan's Fukushima nuclear power generating site is causing a re-thinking of global nuclear policy. It is not even surprising that it took a ...
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Nuclear Power Gets Killed All Over Again, Japan-Watch (PKN, NUCL, URA, USU, CCJ, SHAW, URRE, GE)

Posted: March 15, 2011 at 8:25 am

The second day sell-off and panic in Japan has gotten even worse than what was expected and is now far worse than the immediate reaction after the 1995 Kobe earthquake ...
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D.C. Policy: Keep Supporting Nuclear Power At Home (PKN, NUCL, USU, CCJ, SHAW)

Posted: March 14, 2011 at 8:52 pm

Nuclear power as a carbon-free movement and as a path to energy independence in America is not likely to get sidelined in the immediate aftermath of the Sendai, Japan earthquake.  ...
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