A push to allow MLPs for renewables could add hundreds of billions in investment. A bill that would allow clean energy projects to leverage master limited partnerships, which are used by the oil and gas industry, was reintroduced in the Senate on Wednesday. “Congress should level the playing field and give all sources of domestic… Keep reading →
On the heels of a hope-inspiring report that patents for wind and solar technologies are way up, comes this downer: Global investment in clean energy is plunging. Again. Bloomberg New Energy Finance, which has been tracking these numbers for nearly a decade now, toted up $45.9 billion in clean energy investment in the third quarter of 2013,… Keep reading →
Companies are at the leading edge of wind globally, not least in the US. Starbucks recently sent a joint letter with 18 other US companies to Congress to request an extension of the Production Tax Credit which has helped grow installed capacity.
Ben & Jerry’s, Clif Bar, Johnson & Johnson, Levi Strauss & Co, The North Face, Sprint, Starbucks, Symantec, Timberland and Yahoo! are just a selection of household corporate names that understand the value of a sustainable wind industry to the consumer and the bottom line. Keep reading →
As clean energy becomes a more significant sector in the stock market, financial giants are trying to get on top of the numbers and make sense of the growing phenomenon.
NYSE Euronext and Bloomberg New Energy Finance announced today the creation of three new regionally-focused clean energy stock indices that will allow the companies most active in the space to be “tracked in unprecedented detail.” Keep reading →
