Kelvin Schulle submits:With solar and wind energy heating up gradually, there is breaking news everyday around the globe in this sector. This article will be updated weekly in the renewable energy sector summarizing what happened and what's coming up... [more]

John Petersen submits:I've been writing about energy storage for several months because it will be a fundamental enabling technology for cleantech, the sixth industrial revolution, and I believe it is destined to be a major investment theme for t... [more]

Henrique Simoes submits:Is 2009 going to be an exciting year for oil? Institutional investors don t think so. Their estimates are very similar - much of Wall Street expects oil prices to average about $50 a barrel in 2009. Some of the firms and their... [more]

The solar market is still going strong, despite the financial crisis, and turmoil in some of its key markets. But that doesn't mean all is well on the venture financing end.As a number of longtime Silicon Valley solar darlings start to demand even mo... [more]

John Petersen submits:Last August I published a short list of pure play energy storage stocks and promised to track them over time. Since then I've modified the list to add two companies [i] and delete three others [ii], but the core remains stable. ... [more]

Raju Agarwal submits:In 1997, some observers feared an impending global recession as a result of the headwinds stemming from the Asian financial crisis. However, within two years, those fears had dissipated and were replaced with new concerns of irr... [more]

Tom Konrad (AltEnergyStocks) submits: Here is a mini-portfolio of ten Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Stocks I expect to do well in 2009. Last year, I brought you ten speculative picks in Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency, and I evalu... [more]

Trace Mayer submits:Seasonally, oil (USO) is extremely weak from October through December. In 2008 oil started October at about $100 and ended December around $40 or around a monstrous 60% decline. Oil is strongest seasonally from July through Sept... [more]

Bruce Vanderveen submits:The price of oil is down, way down. Last June's $142/bl has recently been below $35/bl. Now may be a very good time to invest in oil stocks. On the other hand, prices still seem to be heading south. You have the falling ... [more]

Tom Konrad (AltEnergyStocks) submits: In my articles about Clean Energy Mutual Funds and Exchange Traded Funds [ETFs], I usually say: Given the complex nature of the technologies, and the sparse coverage of many of the companies by industry anal... [more]