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New Milestones for Alternative Fuel Autos
Tuesday, November 5, 2013 - 5:21pm | 667Read More...More signs the international automotive industry is investing heavily in the future of alternative vehicles. On Tuesday, Mitsubishi Motors (OTC: MMTOF) and the Renault-Nissan Alliance announced plans to share “products, technologies and manufacturing capacity among the automakers.” And...
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Tesla Updates and Expands Battery Supply Agreement with Panasonic (TSLA)
Thursday, October 31, 2013 - 2:48pm | 413Read More...Turns out all the recent chatter about Tesla Motors (NASDAQ: TSLA) possibly considering a new battery supplier to power its electric cars was, indeed, just talk – or at least premature. On Wednesday Tesla signed a new agreement with Japan's Panasonic (OTC: PCRFY), that updates and expands their...
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Report: World Bank May Have Undercut U.S. Solar Power Companies' Competitiveness
Tuesday, October 15, 2013 - 3:39pm | 479Read More...Is the Washington, D.C.-based World Bank hampering American wind and solar power companies, when it comes to competition with their Chinese competitors? According to an extensive report in The Washington Post, that may be the case. The World Bank was founded towards the end of World War II,...
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Legal Double Standard: Oil Companies Get Indicted for Bird Deaths While WInd Companies Get a Pass
Thursday, September 29, 2011 - 8:22pm | 530Read More...Eagle killed by wind turbine, one of 1,200 daily wind-related bird fatalities: The graphic video above shows a magnificent eagle getting killed by a wind turbine. According to a 2009 estimate from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (reported on the American Bird Conservancy website here), those...
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Top 10 "Greenest" Office Markets
Monday, September 12, 2011 - 4:19pm | 148Read More...With the green movement as strong as ever, Cushman & Wakefield released its second annual Green Building Opportunity Index, which determined the country's top 10 green real estate markets. The Green Real Estate Law Journal gives us the list below. (Click the following link for the full article...
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Power Inverters: The Back Door To Alternative Energy
Sunday, August 8, 2010 - 5:42pm | 144Read More...Investors wanting a stealth play on the growth of solar and wind energy, should focus their attention on the power inverter companies. These mechanisms convert direct current (DC) to alternating current (AC). Solar panels, energy storage devices and wind turbines generally produce DC power....
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The One Solar Stock To Buy
Sunday, June 20, 2010 - 7:09pm | 198Read More...Both the Market Vectors Solar Energy ETF (NYSE: KWT) and the Claymore/MAC Global Solar Energy (NYSE: TAN) have seen their share prices bump around recently as cheap traditional fuel sources and the threat of European austerity have taken the sun out of alternative energy investing. However, the...
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Ocean Power Technologies Moves Towards Commercial Production (OPTT, VWDRY, GE)
Tuesday, April 27, 2010 - 12:23pm | 213Read More...After years of conducting business as a research firm Ocean Power Technologies (NASDAQ: OPTT) announced recently that the company will move forward with commercial production of its largest Aqua Buoy capable of generating 500 kilowatts or enough to power 300 homes. This dwarfs its previous 150...
