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Offshore Wind Power: Penny Foolish, Dollar Wise

As I discussed in my article on investing in offshore wind power, Nstar (NYSE:NST) recently agreed to buy 27.5 percent of Cape Wind's 420-MW planned output. Since National Grid (NYSE:NGG) has had a power purchase agreement (PPA) to buy 50 percent of the...

11 Clean Energy Stocks for 2012: Quick Update

In the past, I generally only wrote about my annual list of ten clean energy stocks on a quarterly basis, but when I wrote last month to apolgize for inadvertently slipping in an extra stock, and in the process wrote a few notes on a couple of the stocks...

Investing In Offshore Wind Power

Last week, the long-embattled Cape Wind project got a break: Utility NStar(NST) agreed to buy 27.5 percent of the proposed offshore wind project's output. Together with a previous power purchase agreement with National Grid (NGG), this gives Cape Wind...

Ten Clean Energy Stocks for 2012: 10 Percent More than Other Top-10 lists

Maybe it was because Seeking Alpha did not carry my annual list of 10 Clean Energy Stocks for 2012 this year, but no one seems to have noticed that there were actually 11 stocks in the list. Call it the Spinal Tap of top-ten lists.

Electric Vehicles: No House of Cards

Once again, John Petersen has gone too far with his petrol-head arguments against Electric Vehicles (EVs.)

Ten Clean Energy Stocks for 2012

There is a silver lining to the horrible year clean energy stocks had in 2011: the opportunity to buy clean energy stocks (often considered a growth sector) at prices one would expect from value stocks.

Cheap Photovoltaics Are Eating Solar Thermal's Lunch

According to a recent report from Pike Research, of the 6,886 MW of CSP projects awarded in the United States since 2004, 36 percent have been replaced with PV. That's more than the number which are actually under construction (1,532 MW, or 21 percent...

Navigating the Clean and Bloody Streets of Europe

Baron Rothschild was an 18th century British nobleman who supposedly originated the phrase "Buy when there's blood in the streets, even if the blood is your own." Although accounts differ, Rothschild was a successful banker, and supposedly made a fortune...

Western Wind: A Clean Energy Rodney Dangerfield?

Renewable energy power producer Western Wind Energy Corp (WNDEF.PK, WND.V) feels it gets no respect. In particular, they have long felt that the investing public does not recognize the value of the company's existing and nearly completed wind farms.

Trade Like It's 2008

Three years later, I'm still kicking myself that the severity of the 2008 financial crisis and stock market collapse took me by surprise. Not that I wasn't in good company. If a majority of investors had been prepared for the crisis, it would never have...

Tom Konrad

Tom Konrad

Tom Konrad is a financial analyst, freelance writer, and policy wonk specializing in renewable energy and energy efficiency. He manages green stock market portfolios. He writes articles about investing in clean energy for Forbes.com AltEnergyStocks.com....

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