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Financial market mayhem spread into alternative energy last week. Uncertainty added to fundamental bearish trends to produce a rout as markets were hit by a wide range of negative factors, from growing anti-biofuel sentiment to
Full story...Two fuel cell companies have issued financial results within recent weeks, throwing into stark contrast the fortunes of fuel cell companies of the Aim market. The results from Ceres Power and Voller Energy tell very different
Full story...In mid-September strong results for the period to 30th June came in from Aim-traded Climate Exchange. The company owns companies that are engaged in owning, operating and developing exchanges which facilitate trading in
Full story...Last year, natural resource fund Origo Sino-India took a 20 per cent stake in private group Roshini International Bioenergy Company (RIBEC) in return for a convertible note of up to US$2 million and a right to invest an
Full story...Who would have expected that after nine failed attempts to pass the US renewables tax credit legislation through Congress that the bill would suddenly re-surface as a part of the US bailout rescue package? The legislation, known
Full story...One of New Zealand's leading high-quality coal producers is on track to become one of the country's major producers of renewable energy when two major green energy projects come online next year. Solid Energy’s seven coal mines
Full story...The biggest weekly decline in fifty years hit commodity markets as funds and investors fled to safer havens on dollar strength, record borrowing rates, risk reduction and fear of a collapse in the global economy. Ahead of
Full story...The biggest weekly decline in fifty years hit commodity markets as funds and investors fled to safer havens on dollar strength, record borrowing rates, risk reduction and fear of a collapse in the global economy. Ahead of
Full story...The world’s first commercial wave power plant opened this week in Póvoa do Varzim, south of Porto, in Portugal. Initially it will supply enough energy for 1,500 homes, aiming to power as many as 350,000 homes in the future.
Full story...At a time when the world is warming up rapidly, investors have begun to cast around in a variety of ways and regions for power from outside the traditional sources. And while the neither renewable nor alternative power sources
Full story...Scottish Power this week unveiled plans for the world’s largest tidal wave energy farm to be built in the seas between Scotland and Northern Ireland, and using underwater turbines that are remarkably similar in appearance to wind
Full story...The carbon market is showing signs of resilience among the general economic turmoil and the fundamentals point to an increase in the carbon price in the coming years. Delays in the issuance of carbon credits, commonly known as
Full story...Commodity traders took their cues this week from the reports coming out of Washington about the negotiations for the emergency US financial bail-out. Trading was tumultuous as a number of major firms with large speculative grain
Full story...Most UK investors appear to have all but given up on the array of fuel cell companies listed on Aim, but the few who haven’t yet given up are having their patience well and truly tested as yet more bad news percolates into the
Full story...The decision by the 45-nation Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) to lift the 34-year old embargo on nuclear trade with India has opened the door for nuclear power station makers to enter the Indian nuclear. Indian domestic nuclear
Full story...Coal, green energy, and property make for unusual bedfellows at first glance but, if you care to take a closer look, the synergies become clearer. This is the thinking of Britain’s largest coal producer, UK Coal, which is also a
Full story...The concerted government attacks on the “shorts” in markets across the world, coordinated as part of the Fed-led attack on financial speculators, brought heavy trading in a number of agricultural commodities this week. Massive
Full story...Aggressiveness is the catch word for emerging global investors. Investment aggressiveness probably led to Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich’s fortune. Yet such aggressiveness has often brought with it controversy and scathing
Full story...What is the Fischer Tropsch process? Well you may ask, since Canadian-listed mining and technology company G4G Resources has just secured the worldwide rights to the latest incarnation of Fischer Tropsch, and plans to be talking
Full story...Things are looking up for the carbon trading sector. The successful testing at the end of August of the link between the Community Independent Transaction Log (CITL) and the UN’s International Transaction Log (ITL), which will
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