Alternative Energy Companies

I have some interesting ones to support. I think the following are worth a look:

QTWW
HYGS
BCON
ACPW
MMGW
WWEI
UQM
CSOL
FSLR
ESLR
XSNX
HTOG
EEE
PWAC
BSRC
PLUG
WWAT
CPTC
BWEN

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Permalink Reply by Brian on July 15, 2008 at 6:36pm

I have more. We need to start supporting these companies.

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Permalink Reply by American in the D.R. on July 15, 2008 at 6:45pm

Would have been nice if you included one of Mr. Pickens companies. CLNE.

I will be meeting with BCON in the coming week.

Each to do own research. I own interest in both the above.

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Permalink Reply by Brian on July 15, 2008 at 6:54pm

American in the D.R. said:

Would have been nice if you included one of Mr. Pickens companies. CLNE.

I will be meeting with BCON in the coming week.

Each to do own research. I own interest in both the above.

Thank you. I will look into that.

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Permalink Reply by Mark McGrath on January 25, 2009 at 11:14pm

I agree that yes we do need to support these companies. I like HYGS and CPTC as two winners financially. Any company focusing on renewability and sustainable energies is my kinda company.

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Permalink Reply by Jed Johnson on January 26, 2009 at 10:34am

By supporting are you referring to investing? Sticking with US companies for wind I like: BWEN, TRN, FPL, GE, OTTR. One thing I like about Boone is that he is all about anything energy and American.

Most the major wind players are European companies. Boone ordered his turbines from GE. BWEN partners with GE to provide gears/boxes for turbines. BWEN also develops towers, transports, and handles all aspects of installation/service. TRN does towers. FPL orchestrates all aspects of wind development. OTTR primarily mid-west wind farm development, however they order turbines from one of European companies I believe.

FSLR is best play for solar imo.

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Permalink Reply by American in the D.R. on January 26, 2009 at 10:55am

Funny that this thread popped up today. I was looking for a place to post the following:

I was looking and the Beacon Power site, www.beaconpower.com and see some interesting progress with their flywheels. They are working with wind and solar projects. Also they are looking for some land to buy or lease in several areas of the country, near major grid lines... etc.

They have a couple of conerences listed with links.
Windpower 2009 in Chicago May 4-7
Renewable Energy World Conderence in Las Vegas March 10-12

Regards, ADR (I own stock in BCON.)

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Permalink Reply by Jed Johnson on January 26, 2009 at 1:46pm

I had taken BCON off my radar last summer. The news release today regarding the agreement with "National Grid" is interesting. http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=123367&p=irol-newsA...

They are in the R&D phase of building components (fly wheel/battery storage) that directly support sustaining energy and stabilizing the grid. The majority of the criticism of wind/solar energy is just what this company is looking to resolve. I think there is a lot of potential here and definitely something needed as solar and wind move forward and begin to provide more reliable energy for the grid.

The only concern I have is financing with this company. They are in R&D and they don't generate a whole lot of revenue at this point. It's possible they could be bought out by a company like National Grid. I'm not sure what the nature of this agreement is in terms of sharing intellectual property.

I will keep an eye on this one.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Willmorth on January 26, 2009 at 3:33pm

Funny how like minds. etc, etc

I was reading this white paper on wind energy in the west by National Grid.
last week.

If they do build a line from WY to the grid tie in NV, i thought they were gonna have one problem-providing steady power.

WY has a lot of NG to provide the base load on this grid, but BCON could provide just the technology so that wind could be the base load, and flywheels could condition it to provide a level load.

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Permalink Reply by American in the D.R. on January 26, 2009 at 4:15pm

Thanks Jed and Steve.... I think?

So tell me Steve, you sit around and read white papers while having coffee... just for something to do? LOL.

Just started reading the paper and will take me awhile. The first few pages I found interesting. I hope that someone can condense it... sooon.

Regards, ADR

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Permalink Reply by Steve Willmorth on January 26, 2009 at 4:35pm

I have more time than money, my friend.
more time than money.

With White papers, always read the summaries first. With this one some of the appendices are gold. Answers that i have been looking for forever. Check out the links on the last page.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Willmorth on January 29, 2009 at 11:14pm

Don't miss
VWS.CO
GCTAF

Lets see how these stocks fare after the stimulus plan

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Permalink Reply by Jed Johnson on January 30, 2009 at 10:16am

Neither is a US company so I don't think they will get any of the stimulus package with regards to energy infrastructure or grid. If the government creates a wind bank like Picken's is pushing wind projects could take off again in the US at least. I hope that others, like Picken's, support US companies like GE etc. when constructing their farms.