Conservation Companies, Energy Efficiency Investments

Energy Efficiency Stocks Investing

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These are companies that offer a product or service that allow clients to improve their usage of energy. Either through more efficient equipment, more efficient transmission of energy or the utilization of highly advanced digital technology to effect operation and use of the equipment.

Alternate Energy Holdings (AEHI.PK) actively develops and markets innovative clean energy sources to reduce dependence on foreign energy sources. Current projects include a bioethanol additive to reduce the cost of natural gas energy production, lightning harvesting technology for electricity and coal to diesel fuel.

American Superconductor (NASDAQ: AMSC) engages in the development, manufacture, and sale of products using two core technologies, high temperature superconductor (HTS) wires and power electronic converters for electric power application. The company also assembles superconductor wires and power electronic converters into integrated products, such as HTS ship propulsion motors and dynamic reactive compensation systems. The company operates in three segments: AMSC Wires, SuperMachines, and Power Electronic Systems. The AMSC Wires segment develops, manufactures, and sells HTS wire for power transmission cables, motors, generators, synchronous condensers, and specialty electromagnets. The SuperMachines segment develops and commercializes electric motors, generators, and synchronous condensers based on HTS wire for ship propulsion and industrial uses. The Power Electronic Systems segment develops and sells power electronic converters, as well as integrated systems, used for power quality and reliability solutions and for wind farm applications.

AVX Corp. (AVX) AVX Corporation engages in the manufacture and supply of passive electronic components and related products worldwide. The company operates in three segments: Passive Components, Kyocera Electronic Devices (KED) Resale, and Connectors. The Passive Components segment consists primarily of surface mount and leaded ceramic and tantalum capacitors, film and power capacitors, and varistors. The KED Resale segment consists primarily of ceramic capacitors, crystal oscillators, SAW devices, resistive products, RF modules, actuators, acoustic devices, and connectors. The Connectors segment consists primarily of Elco automotive, telecom, and memory connectors. The company markets its products through its own direct sales force and independent manufacturers' representatives to customers in various industries, such as telecommunications, information technology hardware, automotive electronics, medical devices and instrumentation, industrial instrumentation, defense and aerospace electronic systems, and consumer electronics. Its customers include original equipment manufacturers, independent electronic component distributors, and contract equipment manufacturers. AVX’s products are used to store, filter, and regulate electric energy.

Carmanah Technologies Corporation (OTCPK: CMHXF) is a leading integrator of renewable and energy-efficient technology solutions. The Company is currently focused on three technology groups; solar-powered LED lighting, solar power systems (off grid and grid tie), and LED illuminated signage. Since 1998, Carmanah has maintained an average annual growth rate of 80% - an unusual statistic for a "green" technology manufacturer.

Catalytica Energy Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CESI) provides emissions control solution products and services to the power generation and transportation industries in the United States. The company operates in two segments, Catalyst and Management Services, and Catalyst-Based Technology Solutions. The Catalyst and Management Services segment offers catalyst regeneration, rejuvenation, cleaning, and management services for selective catalytic reduction (SCR) systems used by coal-fired power generation plants to reduce nitrogen oxides (NOx) emissions. The Catalyst-Based Technology Solutions segment designs, develops, and manufactures products based on its proprietary catalyst and fuel processing technologies principally for reducing diesel engine emissions. It offers Xonon diesel fuel processing technology to facilitate reduction in NOx and particulate matter emissions from mobile and stationary diesel engine applications.

Chloride GRP (CHLD.L) (London) Chloride Group PLC provides power protection solutions and services to support entire power network infrastructures and prevent costly downtime. Chloride’s portfolio of solutions is designed to increase the availability of any mission critical application or process. Solutions include Uninterruptible Power Supplies, Static Transfer Switches, Power Conditioners, DC Power Systems, Industrial Systems and sophisticated power management software. At the heart of the offering is the remote monitoring tool LIFE.net. LIFE.net enables service centres to detect any abnormality in the operations of a customer's installation and act quickly and efficiently.

Clean Energy Combustion Systems Inc. (OTCPK: CECU) designs and markets three types of products: The principal technology is a unique, high-efficiency valveless combustor technology that operates on the principles of cyclical oscillating combustion, originally developed for aerospace propulsion. Clean Energy currently holds 6 patents in this area. This patented oscillating combustion technology improves upon the standard, steady-state combustion technology currently used in the heat transfer industry in terms of both energy efficiency and consequential fuel cost savings, as well as significantly reduced NOx and other emission levels. The third technology is a proprietary mobile modular technology for liquefaction and transportation of natural gas, methane, helium, nitrogen and other gases from remote locations.

Clean Power Technologies Inc. (OTCBB: CPWE) is a developer of a unique and environmentally friendly alternative hybrid fuel technology.

Color Kinetics Inc. (CLRK) Color Kinetics Incorporated transforms environments through new, dynamic uses of light. Its award-winning intelligent solid-state lighting systems and technologies apply the benefits of LEDs as a highly efficient, long lasting, environmentally friendly, and inherently digital source of illumination – reinventing light itself as a highly controllable medium.

Comverge, Inc. (NASDAQ:COMV) and its subsidiaries provide energy solutions that enhance grid reliability and enable utilities to increase available electric capacity during periods of peak energy demand. The company provides its energy solutions through two operating segments, the Smart Grid Solutions Group and the Alternative Energy Resources Group.

Cree Inc. (NASDAQ: CREE) is a market-leading innovator and manufacturer of semiconductors that enhance the value of solid-state lighting, power and communications products by significantly increasing their energy performance and efficiency. Key to Cree's market advantage is its world-class materials expertise in silicon carbide (SiC) and gallium nitride (GaN) for chips and packaged devices that can handle more power in a smaller space while producing less heat than other available technologies, materials and products.

Cyberlux Corporation (OTCBB: CYBL) has created breakthrough lighting technology that provides the most energy efficient and cost effective lighting solutions available today. Several products are designed to address emergencies such as power outages or critical security lighting needs and others which bring newly developed heatless light into the home for use in closets, cabinet interiors and under cabinet lighting for kitchen counters.

DuPont (NYSE: DD) operates as a science and technology company. It engages in various fields, including biotechnology, electronics, materials science, safety and security, and synthetic fibers. The company operates in six segments: Agriculture and Nutrition, Coatings and Color Technologies, Electronic and Communication Technologies, Performance Materials, Safety and Protection, and Pharmaceuticals. The Agriculture and Nutrition segment offers hybrid seed corn and soybean seed, herbicides, fungicides, insecticides, value enhanced grains, and soy protein. The Coatings and Color Technologies segment provides automotive finishes, industrial coatings, and white pigments. The Electronic and Communication Technologies segment offers fluorochemicals, fluoropolymers, photopolymers, and electronic materials. The Performance Materials segment provides engineering polymers, packaging and industrial polymers, films, and elastomers. The Safety and Protection segment provides specialty and industrial chemicals, nonwovens, aramids, and solid surfaces. The Pharmaceuticals segment includes the company's interest in two antihypertensive drugs, the Cozaar and Hyzaar.

Echelon Corporation (NASDAQ: ELON) is the creator of the LonWorks platform, the world's most widely used standard for connecting everyday devices such as appliances, thermostats, air conditioners, electric meters, and lighting systems to each other and to the Internet. Echelon's hardware and software products enable manufacturers and integrators to create smart devices and systems that lower cost, increase convenience, improve service, and enhance productivity, quality, and safety. Thousands of companies have developed and installed LonWorks products and more than 30 million LonWorks enabled processors have been shipped for use in homes, buildings, factories, trains, and other systems worldwide.

EnerBrite Technologies Group's (OTCPK:ETGU) focus is on introducing performance-related technologies designed to manage energy consumption and control demand. The EnerBrite product line consists of various technologies that not only have the capability of controlling energy demand but can also be the foundation for reconfiguring base building systems.
EnerNOC, Inc. (NASDAQ:ENOC) is a leading developer and provider of clean and intelligent power solutions to commercial, institutional, and industrial customers, as well as electric power grid operators and utilities. EnerNOC's technology-enabled demand response and energy management solutions help optimize the balance of electric supply and demand. The Company uses its Network Operations Center, or NOC, to remotely manage and reduce electricity consumption across a network of commercial, institutional, and industrial customer sites and make demand response capacity and energy available to grid operators and utilities on demand.

Essential Innovations Technology Corp. (OTCBB: ESIV) - a Geoexchange Energy Service Company that utilizes proprietary turnkey Geoexchange systems and solutions to deliver heating, cooling and dehumidification, as well as domestic hot water to residential, commercial and institutional applications. The EI Elemental family of products is a high-efficiency, eco-friendly comfort system providing heating, cooling, dehumidification as well as domestic hot water production for residential, commercial and industrial applications.

Fuel System Solutions Inc. (NASDAQ: FSYS) engages in designing, manufacturing, marketing, and supplying products and systems to enable internal combustion engines to run on clean burning gaseous fuels, such as natural gas, propane, and biogas. The company offers a total systems approach and the widest applications coverage: automotive, truck, bus, mobile industrial equipment, stationary and portable power generation products. The only full service company that provides tank-to-tailpipe range for on and off engines using LP gas, Natural Gas or LNG.

Fuel-Tech, Inc. (FTEK) Fuel Tech, Inc., a technology company, engages in the development, commercialization, and application of technologies for air pollution control, process optimization, and engineering services worldwide. It markets nitrogen oxide (NOx) reduction processes, which include the NOxOUT, NOxOUT CASCADE, NOxOUT ULTRA, Rich Reagent Injection, and NOxOUT-SCR technologies; and the FUEL CHEM product line. Its NOx reduction technologies reduce NOx emissions in flue gas from boilers, incinerators, furnaces, and other stationary combustion sources. The company’s FUEL CHEM product line uses chemical processes for the control of slagging, fouling and corrosion, and for plume abatement in furnaces and boilers through the addition of chemicals directly into the fuel or through its targeted in-furnace injection programs.

GS Energy Corp. (GSEG.OB) Commercial products that reduce costs and use resources more efficiently.

Global Power Equipment Group Inc. (GEGQQ.PK) Global Power Equipment Group, Inc. operates as a design, engineering, and manufacturing company providing an array of equipment and services to the global energy, power infrastructure, and process industries. It operates in three segments: Heat Recovery Equipment, Auxiliary Power Equipment, and Industrial Services. The Heat Recovery Equipment segment designs, manufactures, markets heat recovery steam generators, specialty boilers, and industrial boilers. This segment offers heat recovery steam generators for applications in new combined-cycle and retrofitted simple-cycle power plants; specialty boilers and related products for use in process heat recovery and incineration systems, small power generation systems, and marine cogeneration systems; and industrial boilers primarily for heating and producing steam for industrial and commercial usage. The Auxiliary Power Equipment segment offers inlet systems, exhaust systems, filter houses, gas and steam turbine enclosures, and diverter dampers. The Industrial Services segment provides industrial painting and coatings, insulation, fossil fuel and hydroelectric power maintenance, power related construction services, abatement, roofing systems, nuclear power maintenance, and industrial construction services. The company also provides value-added services, such as engineering, retrofit and upgrade, and maintenance and repair.

Gulf Ethanol Corporation ,(OTCBB:GFET ) is developing ethanol production strategies along the Gulf Coast committed to using non-food feed stocks for the production of ethanol rather than corn or sugar cane, which have now been shown to be expensive fuel sources that negatively impact food prices.

Hy-Drive Technologies (TSX: HGS). Hy-Drive Technologies Ltd. is a hydrogen-based energy and power technology firm that has developed a patented Hydrogen Generating System (HGS). Hy-Drive is a Canadian based company. The Hy-Drive system can increase gas mileage by 15 to 20% while reducing pollution by 50-% to 70%, and the only input is water!

Intermagnetics General Corporation (NASDAQ: IMGC) engages in the development, manufacture, and marketing of high-field Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) magnets, radio frequency coils, patient monitors, and other diagnostic subsystems and components. The company operates in three segments: MRI, Medical Devices, and Energy Technology. The MRI segment engages in the manufacture and sale of low temperature superconducting magnets. The Medical Devices segment designs and manufactures patient monitors, primarily for use in MRI suites. Its products include RF coils, which act as antennae to transmit and receive radio frequency signals from the human body. This segment sells its products to original equipment manufacturers, group purchasing organizations, research hospitals, and universities. The Energy Technology segment develops high-temperature superconducting materials and related devices for transmission and distribution of electrical power.

International Rectifier Corp. (IRF) International Rectifier provides enabling electronic technologies for a broad spectrum of products that work smarter, run cooler, and raise the world's productivity-per-watt.

Itron Inc. (NASDAQ: ITRI) provides hardware, software, and services to integrate the creation, measurement, collection, management, application, and forecasting of data for electric, gas, and water utilities worldwide. It operates in three segments: Electricity Metering, Meter Data Collection, and Software Solutions. The Electricity Metering segment provides residential electronic and electromechanical electricity meters, commercial and industrial electronic electricity meters, AMR-enabled meters, international meters for use outside the United States and Canada, and generation, transmission and distribution meters, as well as provides related installation and implementation services. The Meter Data Collection segment offers residential and commercial AMR standalone and original equipment manufacturer modules, contract manufacturing and royalties for its AMR technology in other vendors’ electricity meters, mobile and network AMR data collection technologies, handheld computers for meter data collection or mobile workforce applications, and related installation and implementation services. The Software Solutions segment provides software applications for distribution system design and optimization, energy and water management, asset optimization, and commercial, industrial, and residential meter data collection and management, as well as provides mobile workforce solutions, and forecasting and related implementation consulting services.

IXYS Corp. (IXYS) IXYS Corporation operates as a multimarket integrated semiconductor company. It engages in the development, manufacture, and marketing of power semiconductors; advanced mixed signal integrated circuits; application-specific integrated circuits; and radio frequency, power transistors, and systems. The company provides power semiconductors, which are used primarily in controlling energy in motor drives, power conversion and switch mode power supplies, and medical electronics. It also offers analog and mixed signal integrated circuits (ICs) that are principally used in telecommunications applications. Its mixed signal application-specific ICs are used in medical imaging equipment and display markets. The company's power management and control ICs are used in conjunction with its power semiconductors. IXYS also provides radio frequency power semiconductors, which enable circuitry that amplifies or receives radio frequencies in wireless and other microwave communication applications, medical imaging applications, and defense and space applications.

Lighting Science Group Corp. (LSGP.OB) Lighting Science Group Corporation, a development stage company, through its subsidiaries, engages in the design, development, manufacture, and sale of energy efficient lighting products based on light emitting diodes in the United States. Its digital lighting products include flashlights, cabinet lighting, floodlights, parking garage lighting, and outdoor lighting. The company’s patent pending technology is based upon its intellectual property in light amplification digital power management and control. It offers its solutions to commercial, industrial, residential, and government customers. The company offers its digital lighting products through traditional commercial and retail distribution channels and on a direct basis through its sales force, as well as through shared savings plans with larger commercial and municipal customers.

Lime Energy Co. (OTCBB"LMEC) is a developer, manufacturer and integrator of energy savings technologies. Lime Energy is comprised of four integrated operating companies.

Metretek Technologies Inc. (MEK) Metretek Technologies, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides energy technology products, services, and data management systems to industrial and commercial users and suppliers of natural gas and electricity. It operates through three segments: Distributed Generation, Natural Gas Measurement Services, and Automated Data Collection and Telemetry. Distributed Generation segment offers various services, including project design and engineering, generator acquisition and installation, process control and switchgear design and installation, and ongoing project monitoring and servicing. Natural Gas Measurement Services segment provides onsite field services, chart processing and analysis, laboratory analysis, and data management and reporting services. It offers services to customers involved in natural gas production, gathering, transportation, and processing. Automated Data Collection and Telemetry segment offers field devices, including data collection products and electronic gas flow computers; data collection software products; and communications solutions that use public networks operated by commercial wireless carriers to provide real time IP-based wireless internet connectivity, traditional cellular radio, 900 MHz unlicensed radio or traditional wire-line phone service to provide connectivity between the field devices and the data collection software products. This segment also provides data collection, M2M telemetry connectivity, and post-sale support services for its manufactured products and turn-key solutions.

Modine Manufacturing Company (NYSE: MOD) engages in the development, manufacture, and marketing of thermal management products, components, and systems for use in various original equipment manufacturer applications. Modine products are used in light, medium and heavy-duty vehicles, HVAC (heating, ventilating, air conditioning) equipment, industrial equipment, refrigeration systems, fuel cells, and electronics.

OM Group Inc. (OMG) engages in developing, processing, manufacturing, and marketing specialty chemicals, powders, metals, and related products from various base metals feeds, primarily cobalt and nickel. It operates in two segments, Cobalt and Nickel. The Cobalt segment offers products manufactured using cobalt and other metals, including copper, zinc, manganese, and calcium. The Nickel segment provides nickel-based products. The company’s products are used in rechargeable batteries, coatings, custom catalysts, liquid detergents, lubricants and fuel additives, plastic stabilizers, polyester promoters, adhesion promoters for rubber tires, colorants, petroleum additives, magnetic media, metal finishing agents, cemented carbides for mining and machine tools, diamond tools used in construction, stainless steel, alloy, and plating applications. OM Group’s products are sold in various forms, such as solutions, crystals, powders, cathodes, and briquettes.

PowerCold Corporation (OTCBB: PWCLE) develops, manufactures and markets unique HVAC (heating, ventilation and air condition) solutions for commercial and industrial use.PowerCold's proprietary energy efficient and environmentally safe products are designed to provide a clean comfort air environment and to significantly reduce power costs by up to 50% for air conditioning, refrigeration and on-site building power.

Power Efficiency Corporation (OTCBB: PEFF) engages in the design, development, marketing, and sale of solid state electrical devices to reduce energy consumption in alternating current induction motors in certain industrial applications. The Company's core technology, which is based on patented improvements to NASA technology, is effective on motors that run at constant speeds and under variable loads. These motors are found in escalators, elevators, grinders, granulators, mixers, saw mills and many other applications. The savings from these controllers are typically 15-35%, but can be as high as 45%.

Power Integrations, Inc. (OTCPK: POWI) is the leading supplier of high-voltage analog integrated circuits for use in power conversion. The company's breakthrough silicon technology enables compact, energy-efficient power supplies for a wide array of electronic products including consumer electronics, home appliances, computers, and industrial electronics, as well as external adapters for cell phones, cordless phones, and numerous other devices. The company's patented EcoSmart technology dramatically improves the energy efficiency of electronic devices during normal operation and standby mode, and gives manufacturers a highly cost-effective alternative to older, less efficient power supply technologies. EcoSmart technology is saving consumers and businesses around the world more than a $1 million per day on their electricity bills. The Power Integrations Green Room (http://www.powerint.com/greenroom/) is a comprehensive resource designed to help power supply designers find, understand, and comply with energy-efficiency standards around the world. The company has sold about 1.5 billion integrated circuits since the introduction of its first commercial product, the revolutionary TOPSwitch family of integrated circuits, in 1994.

Power-One (NASDAQ:PWER) engages in the design and manufacture of power conversion and power management products. The company’s products include alternate current (AC)/direct current (DC) power supply products that power communications and networking equipment, as well as industrial, automatic/semiconductor test, transportation, medical, and other electronic equipment; and DC power systems that are used by communications and Internet service providers.

Puget Energy (NYSE:PSD) is a Bellevue, Washington-based company whose core business is Puget Sound Energy (PSE), a regulated utility, providing electric and natural gas service to the growing Puget Sound region of western Washington. The company's strategy emphasizes meeting the energy needs of the growing PSE customer base through incremental, cost-effective energy conservation, low-cost procurement of traditional energy resources, and far-sighted investment in energy-delivery infrastructure.

SatCon Technology Corp. (NASDAQ GM: SATC) engages in the development, manufacture, and marketing of electronics and motors for the alternative energy, hybrid-electric vehicles, grid support, electronics, defense and aerospace, and power technology markets worldwide. SatCon also develops advanced technology in digital power electronics, high-efficiency machines and control systems for a variety of defense applications with the strategy of transitioning those technologies into multiyear production programs.

Reclamation Consulting and Applications Inc. (RCAA.OB) engages in the development, manufacture, sale, and distribution of lubricants, industrial release agents, and form oils. It offers Alderox line of products, including ASA-12, an asphalt release agent; DCR, a lubricant used to reduce start-up amps and eliminates power spiking while ensuring that highly-polymerized asphalt mixes do not build-up on drag chains or slats; PaverBlend, an asphalt related product used to keep paving equipment free from debris; KR-7, a concrete release agent that allows concrete to release from concrete molds and forms; TSR, designed for the oil sands industry to reduce the build-up of clay, lime, and mud on the undercarriages and sides of transport vehicles and equipment; and ASA cleaners. The company distributes its products through manufacturers' sales representatives in the United States and Canada, as well as through international distributors in India, Ireland, and the United Kingdom.

SmartCool Systems Inc. (OTCPK: SSCFF;TSX: SSC.V) is a marketer of advanced energy saving technologies which reduce the electricity consumption (Kwh) and maximum demand (Kw/KVA) of refrigeration and air conditioning compressors, while helping to decrease greenhouse gas emissions. With the exclusive rights to distribute the Abbotly System 4000 Energy Savings Module (ESM)®; a system of micro-computer digital optimization modules which work with existing compressor equipment and controls, throughout the USA, CANADA, MEXICO, and the CARIBBEAN, SmartCool enables businesses to reduce the electricity usage of refrigeration and air conditioning compressors by 10% to 20% while maintaining temperature performance.

Sofame Technologies Inc (TSX:SDW.V) Sofame, a company based in Montreal, retains exclusive production and distribution rights on patented direct contact heat exchange systems, which were developed in close cooperation with partners such as the natural Gas Technologies Center, Gas Metro, Gaz de France and Keyspan Energy of New York.

Syntroleum Corporation (NASDAQ:SYNM) engages in the research and development of a proprietary process (the Syntroleum Process) designed to convert natural gas or synthesis gas into synthetic liquid hydrocarbons, as well as in the commercialization of the Syntroleum Process. Synthetic liquid hydrocarbons produced by the Syntroleum Process are further processed using the Syntroleum Synfining Process into various liquid fuels, such as diesel, jet fuel, kerosene, and naphtha, as well as specialty products, such as synthetic lubricants, synthetic drilling fluid, waxes, liquid normal paraffin solvents, and certain chemical feedstocks.

Thermal Energy(CDNX: TMG.V) Environmental and energy technology company since 1986. Headquartered in Ottawa, Canada, it is an established designer, developer, fabricator, and supplier of superior proprietary and patented environmental compliance (air) and energy conservation, renewable energy products and technology solutions. Thermal Energy is also a fully accredited professional engineering firm, and offers advanced process and applications engineering services. FLU-ACE(R) is a registered trademark of Thermal Energy. More information can be found at: www.thermalenergy.com.

Thomas & Betts Corp. (NYSE: TNB) engages in the design and manufacture of electrical connectors and components used in industrial, commercial, communications, and utility markets worldwide. The company operates in three segments: Electrical; Steel Structures; and Heating, Ventilation, and Air-Conditioning (HVAC).

Turbodyne Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB: TRBD) provides patented propulsion components that foster the downsizing of hybrid, gas, and diesel engines to address rising fuel costs.

US Energy Initiatives Corporation. (USEI.OB) engages in the manufacture and marketing of retrofit systems for the conversion of gasoline and diesel engines, stationary or vehicular, to nonpetroleum-based fuels, such as compressed natural gas and liquefied natural gas in the United States. It offers dual-fuel conversion system designed to convert medium and heavy-duty mobile diesel engines to operate in a natural gas/diesel dual-fuel mode. US Energy Initiatives resells a portfolio of gasoline to natural gas and propane conversion systems through both company-owned and franchised service centers and directly to domestic and international original equipment manufacturers.

U.S. Energy Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:USEY) provides thermal and electrical energy, and energy outsourcing services. The company?s energy services include the management, development, operation, and ownership of small-to-medium-sized energy facilities. As of December 31, 2004, the company owned 23 green energy projects in the United States with a total of 52MW of electric generation capacity.

USA Technologies Inc. (OTCBB: USAT) offers a suite of networked devices and associated wireless noncash payment, control/access management, remote monitoring, and data reporting services, as well as energy management products. The company’s energy management products reduce the power consumption of various equipments, such as refrigerated vending machines and glass front coolers.

Zenergy Power (ZEN.L) (London) Zenergy Power plc is a global manufacturer and developer of innovative and practical high-temperature superconductor (“HTS”) applications. Zenergy was specifically incorporated in July 2005 to unify three of the leading companies in HTS technologies Trithor GmbH (Germany), SC Power Systems Inc. (USA) and Australian Superconductor (Australia).