Tag Archives: renewable energy
The SolarCity IPO: Bringing Back Confidence to Renewable Energy Investors?
SolarCity, a solar panel installation and finance company, is one of the more promising stories for alternative energy investors this year. SolarCity filed details of its initial public offering (IPO) on Tuesday, making it one of the few alternative energy company IPOs that investors are optimistic about. This article explains what type of business SolarCity is, [...]
Google’s Renewable Energy Investments Top $1B
Google, a company that has been carbon neutral since 2007, is about to top $1 billion in renewable energy investments. The company is a huge energy consumer; its data centers’ operations use as much energy as nearly a quarter of a million households. But Google is using renewable energy not only to fuel its own [...]
Walmart Announces Additional Sustainability Index Initiatives
Last month we reported that Walmart would evaluate its buyers on the sustainable products they purchase as part of their annual performance review, in an effort to get more of those products to store shelves. Now, Walmart has kicked that up a notch. At an event in Beijing, the company announced more initiatives that will green its supply chain [...]
Berkshire Big Tuna: Renewables A Better Investment Than Utilities
A few weeks ago I mentioned a report from an analyst at UBS who expressed some concerns about future utility stock valuations as more cost-effective renewables are predicted to come online in the years ahead. Apparently, he isn’t the only one who is optimistic about the economics of renewables while at the same time skeptical about the [...]
Renewables Will Rival Coal (in 2035)
A French agency has released a statement that it believes renewable energy will become coal’s biggest rival for the world’s biggest electricity supplier by 2035. The Paris-based International Energy Agency serves as an energy adviser to nearly 30 countries around the world. It sees a lot of potential for the wind farms, solar parks and hydroelectric [...]
Polls: Voters in Key “Swing States” Strongly Support Clean Energy
A new series of polls (this time by bipartisan firm Public Opinion Strategies of key “swing states”) tells us once again something we already knew, but that can’t be repeated too often: clean energy is highly popular with the American people, and they want lots more of it! New swing state polls released by the [...]
The Next 4 Years of Obama Energy Policy: What to Expect
Now that President Obama’s second term is confirmed, energy experts believe that the industry can expect more regulations over the next four years. The president intends to stick to his promise to reduce oil imports by 50 percent by 2020. Obama’s campaign leaned heavily on the president’s “all of the above” strategy to domestic energy [...]
Governments Role in the Future of Cleantech
Many want to see more government investment in clean technology. There are a lot of things governments can do to help advance cleantech. They can provide tax credits, craft policy mandates, impose standards, develop regulations and pass legislation. On the macroeconomic level, governments can also play an important role supporting education, developing markets and encouraging demand. Cleantech [...]
Michigan Votes Against ’25 by 2025′ Renewable Energy Proposal
The ballots have been tallied in Michigan and the state voted against a renewable energy initiative yesterday. By an overwhelming majority (64 percent), Michigan will not be moving forward with its “25 by 2025″ proposal. Prop 3 was a state constitutional amendment that would require Michigan to generate 25 percent of its energy from renewable [...]