Top 10 Alternative Energy Stocks for 2015 - Investopedia

With global energy demand continuously on the rise, fossil fuels alone will not be sufficient to meet the demand. Alternative energy, which is defined as any energy source other than fossil fuels, is gaining interest. This segment addresses a lot of concerns linked to fossil fuel usage, including carbon-dioxide emissions, climate...

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Alternative energy sector hails HRM for extending Solar City - TheChronicleHerald.ca (registration)

Halifax’s plan to extend its Solar City program is a ray of sunshine for Nova Scotia’s fledgling alternative energy sector, proponents said Monday. “The solar division of our small business has doubled in size to 12 employees during the first two years of the program,” said Babak Farsi, operations manager with the Doctor Solar division of Scotian Renewables Inc. “We’re certainly excited to see...

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Where Has Solar, Alt Energy Short Interest Gone? - 24/7 Wall St.

Short interest among solar and alternative energy stocks was mixed during the two-week reporting period that ended on March 31. Solar stocks generally saw short interest drop, as did the alternative fuel stocks. Perhaps the most interesting change in the two-week period was the lack of change in days to cover. Not one of these stocks saw a decline in days to cover. This indicates...

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Alternative energy exists but has been suppressed - The Nation

American letter-writer Ken Albertson pleads that tidal energy be used to light up Thailand. Yet it is mainly his very own countrymen that stifle pollution-free alternative energy sources.In the US in 1922, the corrupt government of that time, under pressure/payment from General Electric (generating turbines) and the copper industry (electrical wire) forced the inventor Nikola Tesla to dismantle his so-called Tesla Tower...

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Germany recharged: EU powerhouse goes all in on alternative energy - The Globe and Mail (subscription)

On a recent Saturday afternoon, a couple of engineers working the weekend shift were monitoring the regional electricity grid in the heart of Potsdam, a city south of Berlin. The control room was largely quiet as the technicians bent over their workstations, scrutinizing the flow of power through the system. Ralf Doering, a network manager for E.dis AG, the grid operator, pointed to a screen, where an innocuous-looking...

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Alternative energy sources power market niche - Chron.com

Houston recently experienced a wet, rainy and cloudy winter, along with much of the state. Yet, the weather did not put a damper on the wind industry; in fact it kept growing."The wind farms operate at higher elevations, and there is always enough wind to make it profitable, so the weather does not affect production. The amount produced might vary from year to year, but over a 10-year period,...

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Alternative Energy: The Case for Renewables - The Maritime Executive

By Amanda Kelly 2015-04-09 16:40:51 According to British Petroleum’s Energy Outlook 2035, which reports trends likely to shape world energy over the next 20 years, renewables are expected to increase from their current three percent share to about eight percent in the next 20 years. In fact, one-third...

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Clean Energy Revolution Is Ahead of Schedule - Bloomberg View

The most important piece of news on the energy front isn't the plunge in oil prices, but the progress that is being made in battery technology. A new study in Nature Climate Change, by Bjorn Nykvist and Mans Nilsson of the Stockholm Environment Institute, shows that electric vehicle batteries have been getting cheaper much faster than...

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Elon uses alternative energy to fuel campus and community - Elon Local News

Elon has made many efforts to be a more sustainable campus, including the use of alternative energy. More than 9,000 solar panels are being installed in Loy Farm. Workers from Solar Tight Installation or S-T-I, came from Rehoboth Beach, Delaware to install Elon’s latest green energy source. “Basically we’re...

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Get tidal: waves are another form of alternative energy - The Nation

Could Thai engineers be adding to the development of alternative energy? In theory, yes, but they would likely need to be made aware of the "state of the art", and get support from big business and/or government - two entities that can't see beyond the tip of their golf clubs because of the inbred haze of their archaic thinking. Tidal energy cometh. It doesn't need big breakers like those in Hawaii to be feasible. Waves...

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Letter: Key benefits of alternative energy are to people - Morris Sun Tribune

By Clement Loo from Morris, Minn. on Apr 3, 2015 at 3:57 p.m.The conversation about alternative and renewable energy has for the most part been focused on benefits for the environment. When people argue for the shifting the energy landscape towards obtaining more of our energy from solar and wind, the cited benefits often are reduced pollution, slowing or limiting of climate change, and things of that nature. But, this is a...

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Why Cheap Oil Won't Kill Alternative Energy - Wall Street Journal (blog)

JEFFREY BALL: The price of oil is plummeting, bestowing a bonanza on drivers and upending the geopolitical order. That’s good for the U.S. Will it kill the drive toward alternative energy sources? Almost certainly not. In the past, interest in energy options has risen and fallen with the price of oil. When oil prices...

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Sinopec energy shocker: Chinese fuel demand to fall as alternative energy grows - Asia Times Online

Author: Asia Unhedged April 1, 2015 Bloomberg News quotes Sinopec Chairman Fu Chengyu’s prediction on a “little-reported” March 23 conference call that fuel sales will become a non-core activity in as little as a decade, when gasoline sales will peak. That runs counter to the Western consensus, which holds that China’s fuel consumption will anchor world...

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