Category: Renewables – Business

I thought I’d mention that a friend has asked 2GreenEnergy to perform a small marketing project for a company called Chrysalife, an importer and distributor of high-end silk bedding.  To be honest, I knew next to nothing about silk bedding …

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I just pulled back into my driveway from a few hours at the Smart Grid Conference at the Los Angeles Convention Center. I’m a huge believer in the long-term importance of smart grid technology, but I have to say that …

Smart Grid Technology Has Long-term Importance But Too Much Useless Chatter Read More »

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2GreenEnergy senior investment advisor Bill Paul appeared on PBS’s Consuelo Mack’s show WealthTrack, which is airing on about 200 PBS affiliates in North America this week. Needless to say, the traffic on the site – and one my phone – …

Bill Paul, 2GreenEnergy's Senior Investment Advisor on PBS Read More »

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I’ll be hitting the Smart Grid Conference at the Los Angeles Convention Center over the next couple of days, and I hope to see numerous 2GreenEnergy readers there.  If you want to meet for coffee, please hit “contact” and let …

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I was keeping a tally sheet at last week’s Renewable Energy Finance Forum, so I could let readers know the issue that was brought up most often and granted the most overall prominence. The clear winner: China is eating our …

What Will It Take to Achieve a US Renewable Portfolio Standard? Read More »

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Michael Eckhardt, the president of The American Council on Renewable Energy (who’s retiring after many years of wonderfully effective service to us all), served as the emcee of the Renewable Energy Finance Forum West 2010. At one point, he attempted …

China Versus US in Commitment to Renewables — How Much is a Trillion? Read More »

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It doesn’t sound like a piece of cake to be a CEO of a power utility. Sure, as we have discussed elsewhere, there are ways to lock in and hide profits, while staving off the world’s insistence that we migrate …

Electric Power Utilities Face Issues Read More »

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In the Renewable Energy Finance Forum session in which presenters from Citibank, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, and JP Morgan, offered their observations on the industry, several pointed to the strategies that multinational oil companies (BP, ExxonMobil, Chevron, etc.) have vis-à-vis …

Oil Companies’ Participation in Clean Energy Read More »

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At the Renewable Energy Finance Forum you’ll hear largely about the wins, where developers have taken the most mature clean energy technologies, addressed the many financial risk factors, and presented a can’t-lose package to a bank or other funding entity. …

"Grid Parity" – What Does It Mean and When Will It Happen? Read More »

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It’s always interesting to get out and interact with different groups who have specific perspectives on the energy industry.  And, to that end, I’ve commited to a certain travel schedule that will take me — either as a speaker or as …

Big Ideas at the Renewable Energy Finance Forum Read More »

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