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200,000 jobs… That is the new ‘independent study’ estimate on how many jobs can be created by the solar industry by the year 2016. The Solar Energy Industries Association is touting this...
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China consumed 864 million metric tons of coal in the first quarter of 2010. Thermal coal consumption to generate electricity totaled 444 million metric tons and metallurgical coal consumption,...
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ProLogis (NYSE: PLD) is already very well known as a REIT in commercial space for warehouse-type of projects for storage, warehousing, distribution, and office parks. Now, it is going to be known...
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T. Boone Pickens has seen his share of ups and downs, and his share of success and failure. The octogenarian billionaire is testifying in Washington D.C. today to get Americans off foreign oil with...
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Investors love dividends, and big stable utility stocks often have some of the highest dividends of any class of stocks. There has just been one problem… Dividends or not, utilities are sucking...
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Many alternative energy stocks themselves may sometimes represent little more than highly leveraged bets on the price of oil. But there is still big business in the world of clean tech and green...
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Google (GOOG) got approved by US regulators to sell electricity, allow it to buy and sell power like a power company. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission greenlighted the search firm’s...
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The latest stimulus program news out of Washington is astonishing for its lack of ambition. President Obama announced $8.3 billion in loan guarantees which will support a plan to build the first...
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This has already been delayed and rumored, but it appears that oil magnate T. Boone Pickens has given up on his northern Texas Pampa Wind Farm power project. The economics do not work. The deal...
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If anyone in the solar space could use an order for Christmas, it is MEMC Electronic Materials Inc. (NYSE: WFR). The company’s SunEdison solar services unit, just received an order from Xcel...
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PIMCO’s chief Bill Gross puts out a regular letter in which he shares his investment advice with the public. Invoking the memory of Will Rogers, a Depression-era comic, Gross describes the recent...
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If you thought you might not see another green energy or less-dirty energy exchange traded-fund, there is a new ETF for you. First Trust Advisors is launching the First Trust NASDAQ Clean Edge...
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China is at it again buying key infrastructure access. AES Corp. (NYSE: AES) disclosed on Friday, along with earnings, that the company was raising significant cash. This is a capital raise which...
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If you thought that Bill Gates might have an ambition beyond just passive investing in the garbage and waste disposal sector, you might be correct. Bill Gates’ Cascade Investment, L.L.C. and the...
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We are seeing at least some significant moves from the company’s who have announced that they are grant recipients under part of the $3.4 billion Smart Grid pledge from the Obama administration...
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