Finance

Major Global Companies Get Aggressive on Minimizing Future Energy Risks

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The world’s biggest companies are developing concrete strategies for confronting the potential for higher energy costs in the future. In fact, 70% of the world’s billion dollar businesses are planning to put more time and money into generating their own power, growing their renewables portfolios and ramping up energy efficiency efforts, according to a new survey report from Ernst & Young.

The survey was conducted with 100 global company executives working in sectors that use a lot of electricity. Here are some of the interesting numbers set out in the survey report: Keep reading →

 /  Published September 14, 2012 at 9:15 AM

Coal Stocks Ride China’s Stimulus Wave

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Investors who have been burned by holding onto coal stocks this year may finally be feeling the right type of heat. Coal stocks started heating up Friday, after China announced a $156 billion commitment for improving the country’s roads, rails and other infrastructure. With China planning 55 new major infrastructure projects, investors are betting that those projects will rev up demand for coal, which China uses to make steel for its bridges. Coal China’s news gave at least one StockTwits trader a reason to pat himself on the back.

 /  Published September 11, 2012 at 10:20 AM

UK Energy Policy: When Will the Chancellor Listen to Consumers?

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David Cameron’s promise within his first month as UK prime minister to be “greenest government ever” looks at risk of derailment – by his own Chancellor, George Osborne.

Conservatives and Liberal Democrats appeared to carry over the political consensus on action on climate change and a switch to renewable energy. But what began as an ideological rift in the British Cabinet has become a very public clash between the Tory chief at the Treasury and the Lib-Dem boss at the Department of Energy and Climate Change. Keep reading →

 /  Published September 11, 2012 at 8:30 AM

Why Solar Power International Matters

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This week the solar world descends on Orlando, Florida for the 2012 Solar Power International (SPI) conference.

For three days, an estimated 25,000 solar industry professionals will promote their products, make connections, and learn from their colleagues about the latest thinking and design. This year, more than any other, the theme of this conference will be project finance; how deals are getting done and who is doing them are the largest questions facing the industry in the post-1603 cash grant world. Keep reading →

 /  Published September 10, 2012 at 9:40 AM

LNG Exports from the US to Asia Seen as Profitable – for a Limited Time

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Steams rises from the Kawasaki natural gas power station in Kawasaki city, Kanagawa prefecture, south of Tokyo on August 25, 2011.

Japan’s Fukushima disaster, with the subsequent shutdown of most Japanese nuclear power plants, mean US exports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Asia will be profitable to 2020 – but maybe not beyond. Keep reading →

 /  Published August 30, 2012 at 8:30 AM

10 Most Expensive Energy Projects in the World

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Estimates vary widely on its cost, but it’s thought the Three Gorges Dam is the most expensive hydroelectric project ever built.

 /  Published August 28, 2012 at 10:45 AM

Why Green Energy Startups are Now ‘Toxic’

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Green energy startups are feeling the sting of rejection by investors concerned about falling energy prices and the future of government support.

 /  Published August 21, 2012 at 11:30 AM

Are VCs Missing Out on the Next Trillion Dollar Market?

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It isn’t gold.

Weakening venture capital funding for one of the globe’s fastest-growing sectors isn’t a mystery for sector watchers, but with increasing adoption of disruptive monitoring technology, the market opportunity isn’t a matter of if, but when. Keep reading →

 /  Published August 20, 2012 at 1:00 PM

Wind Tax Credit at Center of Presidential Election Spat

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The scheduled expiration of a production tax credit for the wind industry has taken center stage in the energy policy debate between President Obama and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.

The credit, which allows taxpayers to claim 2.2 cents for every kilowatt hour of wind energy produced by a utility-scale wind farm, is due to expire on Dec. 31, 2012, a prospect that is already causing layoffs in the wind industry, according to its advocates. Keep reading →

 /  Published August 16, 2012 at 8:30 AM

Role of energy in manufacturing’s return

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 /  Published August 15, 2012 at 3:00 PM
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