Under section 1603 of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, commercial renewable power projects were allowed to get direct federal grant instead of taking either a production tax credit or an investment…
BP plc (NYSE: BP) finds itself in an odd situation with stock options trading versus its pending earnings announcement Tuesday and the imminent departure of Tony Hayward as CEO. While shares have risen more…
Struggling oil and gas producer Delta Petroleum Corp. (NASDAQ: DPTR) has agreed to sell $130 million in “non-core assets” to privately held Wapiti Oil & Gas L.L.C. The company plans to use the funds…
BP plc’s (NYSE: BP) CEO Tony Hayward, who is about to be sacked by the big oil company, has only been in his position for about two years. That raises the issue whether he…
Venezuela President Hugo Chavez has once again threatened to cut the South American country’s supply of oil to the US, according to a number of news reports. Venezuela has been charged with harboring rebels…
While there are a lot of small companies vying for market share in the rapidly growing alternative energy sphere, they’re not the only players in the game. Two established players reported earnings this morning…
There was a time, not so long ago, when thin-film solar PV makers like Applied Materials Inc. (NASDAQ:AMAT) and First Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ:FSLR) had a decisive cost advantage over crystalline polysilicon solar PV makers…
BP plc (NYSE: BP) may have a real “test” ahead of itself for the cap on the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster. Yesterday, a “tropical wave” was a cause for concern, but NOAA has…
The continuing disaster in the Gulf of Mexico is partly due to the lack of a coordinated response plan in the event of a well blow-out deep below the surface. The oil companies, and…
Investing in global Lithium demand trends just became much easier. An ETF is coming out this week called the Global X Lithium ETF. It is not a commodity fund but it does track the…
The BP plc (NYSE: BP) clean-up in the Gulf of Mexico has a new worst friend that is maybe coming over for dinner. A possible tropical storm, cyclone, or depression poses a risk. While…
The plug-in hybrid, a car that uses the same socket as a vacuum cleaner, or at least one close it, has gotten the full force of backing from the Obama Administration. The President believe…
BP plc (NYSE: BP) may be in desperate trouble, but its CEO Tony Hayward will not be fired. According to Reuters, he has the full support of the company’s board. It does not matter…
Sometimes the short-term interests of a company’s shareholders and the future of that company are not in perfect synch. That’s exactly the situation at SandRidge Energy Inc. (NYSE: SD), which just last week completed…
Honda Motor Co. (NYSE: HMC) President Takanobu Ito plans to capitalize on the global shift toward smaller cars that offer advanced technology to reduce both petroleum consumption and carbon dioxide emissions. Ito set out…