First Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) has received loan guarantees from the US Department of Energy totaling $4.5 billion for the construction of three solar projects in the southern California that would add more than…
When (if) a conversation ever turns to battery technology, most folks’ eyes glaze over and they begin to think about their next vacation. Maybe that should change. Johnson Controls, Inc. (NYSE: JCI), maker of…
The Keystone XL Pipeline project has been under review for more than two years now, and has already secured approval from the Alberta provincial government and the Canadian national government. The pipeline, originating near…
Do voluntary markets for renewable energy work? Government-mandated energy portfolios sort of work although the energy costs more and utilities — and consumers — often wail at having to buy the more expensive energy.…
Enbridge Energy Partners, L.P. (NYSE: EEP) has just announced that it is raising capital. The partnership is offering approximately 7 million of its Class-A common units. The gross proceeds would be more than $210…
When the New York Times reported over the weekend that natural gas companies and their huge bets on wells was noted as being “the gas may not be as easy and cheap to extract…
Solar PV makers are facing a tough second half of 2011. Forecast supply is expected to exceed demand, and virtually every solar supplier is seeing its stock price head south. A few companies have…
Norway’s entry in the electric vehicle (EV) sweepstakes, Think (or sometimes, Th!nk) has filed for bankruptcy because the company has been unable to find long-term financing. The company, once owned by Ford Motor Co.…
The 28 countries comprising the International Energy Agency (IEA) have agreed to release a total of 60 million barrels of oil as a result of the continuing supply disruption to Libyan oil. This is…
The solar stocks used to be leveraged energy companies. The sell-off after the energy bubble popped was as bad as it could get, and now many of these companies look like value stocks. The…
People are driving less even though the price of oil is well below $100 and the average price of regular gas, which many expected would hit $5, is now under $3.85. The AAA says…
Shares in American Superconductor Corp. (NASDAQ: AMSC) have been taking a beating since early April. The company’s largest customer, China’s Sinovel, has refused to pay for $56 million in wind turbine parts it received…
PetroLogistics LP has filed its paperwork with the SEC to raise $600 million in equity capital in an initial public offering. The company will list it common shares on the New York Stock Exchange…
For about six months in 2010, Codexis, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDXS) had the publicly traded biofuels market to itself. Then Amyris, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMRS) and Gevo, Inc. (NASDAQ: GEVO) jumped in, and in May 2011,…
France’s government-controlled nuclear power behemoth, Areva SA (OTC: ARVCY), will not renew the contract of CEO Anne Lauvergeon, aka “Atomic Anne,” when it expires at the end of June. Her replacement will be Luc…