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Downgrades are the name of the game in alternative energy markets as 2009 opens and analysts rush to lower prices for biodiesel, ethanol and especially for the US$100 billion carbon market. Plunging output means factories and
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Picks to oversee the Obama administration’s energy policy won green plaudits – Nobel Price winner Steven Chu will be Secretary of Energy, heading a team that includes former Environmental Protection Agency chief Carol Browner,
Full story...It was ironic that that the European Union’s 27 leaders met in Poznan, Poland, to endorse a 20 per cent cut in carbon dioxide emissions by 2020 as Poland generates most of its energy from coal and has not a cat’s chance in hell
Full story...Solar power is set to continue its slump, say the analysts. The miserable close to 2008 is going to be followed by more of the same in 2009 for many alternative energy markets, it seems. Equally depressing, much of 2008’s bad
Full story...A towering in-tray is already piling even higher on the empty Secretary’s desk at the US Department of Agriculture. Awaiting decisions on the US mammoth agriculture subsidies are not just US corn farmers, ethanol producers and
Full story...There are many hopes pinned on Barack Obama’s victory and his election pledge to spend US$150 billion over the next ten years on clean energy and green jobs. Mr Obama wants to increase renewable energy generation from the current
Full story...Roger Ballentine of China Energy Recovery (US:CGYV)
Full story...Annual forecast time is here again, and more gloom is promised… With New Year only days away, analysts are peering into their crystal balls working out how to spook the rest of us! One of those looking out into 2009 is
Full story...US solar module manufacturer First Solar recently released robust third quarter results accompanied by a series of fresh contracts totalling more than 625MW. Revenue for the September quarter was up more than 30 per cent on the
Full story...The suspension on 1st December of the accreditation of Norway’s Det Norske Veritas (DNV) to validate carbon trading credits came as an unpleasant surprise to the carbon markets. The project auditor has been responsible for
Full story...There’s no end to the bad news in sight yet! There will be yet more forced liquidations and redemptions according both to Australia’s Macquarie bank and to US asset manager and research group Bernstein. So the heavy pressure on
Full story...The credit crunch is wreaking havoc in many sectors, not least in the alternative energy sector from where investors have been withdrawing in droves as they seek to minimize the risk in their portfolios. But an unexpected blow
Full story...Alternative energy markets benefited, for a change, from the latest momentous events in financial markets. Most commodities rose after the People’s Bank of China lowered its one-year lending rate to follow on from its US$590
Full story...Share prices in renewable energy stocks have suffered heavily in recent weeks on concerns that funding will dry up, given the current restricted access to capital. Investor sentiment in the alternative fuel space has also been
Full story...The US ethanol industry is headed for a shakeout and consolidation, according to a warning given at the American Bankers Association. The shakeout will occur in the context of overcapacity and the record number of plants facing
Full story...The global carbon market grew by 81 per cent to US$87 billion during the first nine months of 2008. Fast growth is expected to continue to 2012 by which time it the value of the market is forecast to be US$550 billion. But
Full story...Ahead of the forthcoming EU summit and talks with Russia there have been calls for a lower degree of dependence on Russian gas and a greater use of alternative energy sources -wind, sun and sea. The 27-nation bloc is seeking to
Full story...A row is developing internationally about biofuel tarrifs, with claims that unfair barriers are being raised by the EU against biofuel exports from eight developing countries. These are Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Malawi,
Full story...As many companies struggle to make ends meet in the midst of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, some sectors are coming into their own. At a time when fuel efficiency and clean combustion are valued at a
Full story...At the end of September, Aim-traded fuel cell company Ceramic Fuel Cells Ltd (CFCL) announced that its NetGenPlus system had achieved a net electrical efficiency output to the grid of 50 per cent. The NetGenPlus, which is a
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