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The Psychology of Small-Scale Solar

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Solar’s economics are increasingly attractive yet often poorly understood. Does solar have an image problem?

Businesses small and large – but particularly those with high electricity costs – can achieve considerable savings and create long-term price certainty by installing a solar electric system instead of purchasing electricity from their utility. In fact, every business with a minimum of space (for the solar system) and high electricity costs should examine solar’s potential to reduce overhead in the short- and long-term. Keep reading →

 /  Published November 19, 2012 at 2:30 PM

Accenture’s research highlights six key questions #energy companies need to ask on business process management. http://bit.ly/TS2KcH

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Accenture’s research highlights six key questions #energy companies need to ask on business process management http://http://bit.ly/TS2KcH Accenture

 /  Published October 24, 2012 at 2:40 PM

Energy at Center of $3 Billion Shaw Group Purchase

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The Shaw Group has agreed to be bought by CB&I in a cash and stock transaction valued at $3 billion, creating one of the world’s largest engineering and construction companies focused on the global energy industry. Under the terms of the deal, CB&I, also known as Chicago Bridge & Iron, will pay $46 a share in cash and stock, about $41 in cash and $5 in CB&I equity, representing a premium of 72% over Shaw’s closing price on Friday. CB&I plans to operate Shaw as a business sector under the brand name CB&I Shaw, where it will retain Shaw’s brand equity and allow the combined organization to recognize synergies and capitalize on both companies’ resources and capacity.

 /  Published July 30, 2012 at 1:40 PM

Join us for the first of our new weekly Energy discussions. This week’s topic: International investors

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 /  Published June 28, 2012 at 9:30 AM

Utilities and the Challenges of Sustainable Investing

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Sustainable investing is an increasingly mainstream activity. But utilities are only beginning to adjust their business approaches to get in on the popularity of using those sustainability metrics to evaluate company performance and outlooks.

While the industry may appear to be awash in metrics, and the sector was in large part born out of an indexation process kicked off by the United Nations and continued in this year’s high-profile Sustainable Energy for All initiative, a new company from a father-and-son pair of energy experts says it has identified a remaining gap in the market for indices. Keep reading →

 /  Published June 22, 2012 at 8:30 AM

Seeking a Bridge to the Renewable Energy Finance Future

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There simply couldn’t be a better time to talk about how renewable energy is financed, and how changes in financing are affecting the entirety of a market that has matured at a rapid pace.

As bankers, project developers, analysts and regulators gather for another year at the Renewable Energy Finance Forum – Wall Street, they will be standing before that overused but apt metaphor: A crossroads. Keep reading →

 /  Published June 11, 2012 at 11:30 AM

Enbridge Details Pipeline Expansion Projects

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Enbridge said it has secured funding for $2.6 billion in additional pipeline projects linking western Canadian oil to eastern markets, while Enbridge Energy Partners said it will spend $360 million to expand its crude-oil mainline system. Enbridge said its Eastern Access expansion projects will include the expansion of its Toledo pipeline, which connects with the Enbridge mainline in Stockbridge, Mich., and serves refineries at Toledo, Ohio, and Detroit, and a rereversal of its Line 9B from Westover, Ontario to Montreal to serve refineries in Quebec. The company previously announced plans for a rereversal of Line 9A from Sarnia, Ontario to Westover.

 /  Published May 18, 2012 at 9:40 AM

The Electric Race from Extraordinary to Ordinary

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How a quest for a ten-fold improvement in batteries promises to make electric vehicles deliver on their remarkable potential.

The din that accompanied the birth of modern electric vehicles has quieted, despite a steady parade of new models and the ascent of gas prices to worrisome highs. The relative quiet is good news though, a sign that electric vehicles (EVs) are entering a critical period when the technology must evolve from exotic to everyday. Keep reading →

 /  Published May 4, 2012 at 11:50 AM

Which energy startups will survive and thrive over the next five to ten years?

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 /  Published April 9, 2012 at 4:15 PM

Warren Buffett On The Environment: Businesses Can’t Take ‘Shortcuts’

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What’s bad for the environment is also bad for the bottom line. That’s what Warren Buffett is arguing in the latest sustainability report from Johns Manville, a building-materials manufacturer owned by Buffett’s company Berkshire Hathaway. In a short note toward the beginning of the report, Buffett writes that “taking shortcuts is not the pathway to achieving sustainable competitive advantage, nor is it an avenue toward satisfying customers” — evidently a reference to the importance of keeping a business green-friendly and compliant with rules. Buffett — investor, philanthropist, tax-the-rich cheerleader and occasional Obama whisperer — seems to put great stock in the idea that environmental prudence goes hand-in-hand with profit.

 /  Published April 5, 2012 at 2:30 PM
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