Renewable Energy Investing Websites and Green Power Links
Here are some renewable energy investing and clean power fund websites, important resources for researching alternative power technology and renewable energy companies. Resources for clean energy information, green power investment funds and green investments globally:
5N Plus Inc. official english website
American Solar Energy Society
Directory of Solar Power Info Online
DOE Energy-Efficiency and Renewable Power Website
EcoWorld.com - Nature and Technology In Harmony
Energy Conversion Devices page at Yahoo Finance
Environmental Realty and Ecological Property Website
Evergreen Solar company website ESLR
First Solar company information, FSLR
Geothermal.info Geothermal Power website
Green-Energy-News.com
Hawaii Green Homes Land
Home Power Magazine - Official Website
OyNot.com Solar Energy and Batteries
PanTerra Clean Energy Business Parks
PBD - Info on PowerShares Global Clean Energy Fund
Renewable Energy Access Website
Renewable Energy Focus
RenewableEnergyStocks.com Global Stock List
Science Daily Solar Energy Information
SolarBuzz.com Best Solar Energy Website
Solar Energy Investment Blog
Spire Solar company info at Yahoo Finance; SPIR
SunPoweredDreams.com Green Energy Blog
Wind Energy Company websites; Windpower Info online
Wind Energy Investing Links
* Acciona Wind Energy (ANA.MC)
* Babcock and Brown Wind Partners (ASX: BBW BBWPF.PK)
* Boralex Wind Energy info
* Clipper Windpower (CWPR.L) Wind Turbine Manufacturing
* Gamesa Corp (GAM.MC) alternative energy website
* Naikun Windpower company information
* SkyPower Windpower Investment Fund
* Sky Power - Canadian windpower firm
* Suzlon Energy (SUZL) Indian wind power stock
* Vestas Wind Systems (VWSYF) Danish windpower company
* Western Wind Energy (WND: TSX.V) publicly-listed stock
* Xantrex Technology (XTX) solar energy inverters
Alternative Energy Investing; Clean Power Stocks
* Green Realtor Website
* Bees Trees Frogs Elephants Nature Website
* Calvert Global Alternative Energy Investment Fund (CGAEX)
* Canadian Hydro (KHD) windpower developments
* Canada Windpower Atlas
* Geothermal Energy Investing Info
* Directory of Top Alternative Energy Websites
* Naikun Wind Energy British Columbia development
* Net Metering information
* Ormat Tech (ORA) geothermal power leading company
* Renewable Power Investing website
* Solar Buzz Renewable Energy Investments
* The Solar Intelligence Blog
Environmental Blogs and Nature Websites
* Geotherma.info Geothermal Energy Stock Investing
* Water Partners International
* Official Website of Greenpeace International
* Nature.com - Animals and Ecology Nature Website
* Nature.ca - Canadian Natural World and Ecology Site
* SolarIntell.com - Guide to Clean Energy Websites and Renewable Power Blogs
* Solar Energy on Wikipedia Online Encyclopedia
* Bees Trees Frogs Elephants Nature and Ecology Blog
* Geotherma.info Geothermal Energy Investing
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Biofuel from agricultural waste gets funding boost in Ontario Canada
Ontario targets $7.5M for biofuel
TheStar.com - Toronto, Canada
Program will fund research focused on using agricultural waste, not food, to generate energy
July 03, 2008
Rob Ferguson
Queen's Park Bureau
The Ontario government is pouring another $7.5 million into research for biofuels that can be made from agricultural waste such as corn husks and manure instead of food crops.
With concerns mounting that biofuels are taking food out of people's mouths and pushing prices higher, the government will today announce $5 million for a new biofuels institute at the University of Western Ontario in London, sources told the Toronto Star.
Another $2.5 million will go toward a demonstration project on a farm outside of London that is turning manure and waste water into biogas, producing enough to power about 800 homes.
"There is a huge demand now for more sustainable biofuels," said a source familiar with the announcement, to be made this morning by Research and Innovation Minister John Wilkinson in London.
"There are researchers and labs all across the province that are already working on this."
One scientist active in the field said the first generation of biofuels, such as ethanol based on the sugar in kernels of corn, has been relatively easy to develop, but the goal is to find a more efficient way of developing fuels from waste, such as corn husks and stalks, which aren't used as food.
"It's a whole lot trickier," said University of Guelph professor Anthony Clarke, noting it is more difficult to isolate the energy in cellulose – the material in stalks and husks that gives the plant its strength – than it is to extract the energy contained within the sugars of the kernel.
He calls that process the "Holy Grail" for researchers in the quest for new fuels to replace fossil-based fuels.
"We need to boost the efficiency and make it cost effective ... a breakthrough could come tomorrow, or it could take another five years," he added.
The biogas project, located at Stanton Farms near the hamlet of Ilderton, is a collaboration between UWO, the University of Guelph and the University of Waterloo.
It uses a biodigester system that turns manure and waste water into a gas that can be used as an energy source.
Aside from working on fuels, the new Institute for Chemicals and Fuels from Alternate Resources at UWO's experimental field station will look at ways to use a process called pyrolysis for turning agricultural waste such as corn husks into organic insecticides, fertilizers and pesticides.
The institute is working with a company from nearby Dorchester called Agri-Therm Ltd., which is a spinoff of UWO's engineering faculty that has developed and patented a pyrolysis machine.
The company is taking it on a demonstration tour for potential customers this summer.
There is a huge potential for biofuels using tonnes and tonnes of plant material that is otherwise going to waste, said Clarke, who is working on a $600,000, three-year study on how to break down cellulose in plants into fuel, funded in part by the Ontario government.
Garbage dumps, he adds, are full of materials containing cellulose that have the potential to generate energy if the right technologies can be developed.
But Clarke said such biofuels are a "stopgap measure" to replace oil, gasoline and natural gas for the time being.
"They're just supplementing our dependence on fossil fuels," he added, noting hydrogen, solar and other renewable fuels remain better long-term options.
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TheStar.com - Toronto, Canada
Program will fund research focused on using agricultural waste, not food, to generate energy
July 03, 2008
Rob Ferguson
Queen's Park Bureau
The Ontario government is pouring another $7.5 million into research for biofuels that can be made from agricultural waste such as corn husks and manure instead of food crops.
With concerns mounting that biofuels are taking food out of people's mouths and pushing prices higher, the government will today announce $5 million for a new biofuels institute at the University of Western Ontario in London, sources told the Toronto Star.
Another $2.5 million will go toward a demonstration project on a farm outside of London that is turning manure and waste water into biogas, producing enough to power about 800 homes.
"There is a huge demand now for more sustainable biofuels," said a source familiar with the announcement, to be made this morning by Research and Innovation Minister John Wilkinson in London.
"There are researchers and labs all across the province that are already working on this."
One scientist active in the field said the first generation of biofuels, such as ethanol based on the sugar in kernels of corn, has been relatively easy to develop, but the goal is to find a more efficient way of developing fuels from waste, such as corn husks and stalks, which aren't used as food.
"It's a whole lot trickier," said University of Guelph professor Anthony Clarke, noting it is more difficult to isolate the energy in cellulose – the material in stalks and husks that gives the plant its strength – than it is to extract the energy contained within the sugars of the kernel.
He calls that process the "Holy Grail" for researchers in the quest for new fuels to replace fossil-based fuels.
"We need to boost the efficiency and make it cost effective ... a breakthrough could come tomorrow, or it could take another five years," he added.
The biogas project, located at Stanton Farms near the hamlet of Ilderton, is a collaboration between UWO, the University of Guelph and the University of Waterloo.
It uses a biodigester system that turns manure and waste water into a gas that can be used as an energy source.
Aside from working on fuels, the new Institute for Chemicals and Fuels from Alternate Resources at UWO's experimental field station will look at ways to use a process called pyrolysis for turning agricultural waste such as corn husks into organic insecticides, fertilizers and pesticides.
The institute is working with a company from nearby Dorchester called Agri-Therm Ltd., which is a spinoff of UWO's engineering faculty that has developed and patented a pyrolysis machine.
The company is taking it on a demonstration tour for potential customers this summer.
There is a huge potential for biofuels using tonnes and tonnes of plant material that is otherwise going to waste, said Clarke, who is working on a $600,000, three-year study on how to break down cellulose in plants into fuel, funded in part by the Ontario government.
Garbage dumps, he adds, are full of materials containing cellulose that have the potential to generate energy if the right technologies can be developed.
But Clarke said such biofuels are a "stopgap measure" to replace oil, gasoline and natural gas for the time being.
"They're just supplementing our dependence on fossil fuels," he added, noting hydrogen, solar and other renewable fuels remain better long-term options.
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The Toronto Sound - New Canadian Modern Alt-Rock Music
Offshore Windpower from Lake Ontario may be best alternative to nuclear and coal
Wind power a dilemma for Ontario
TheStar.com - Business - Wind power a dilemma for Ontario
COMPARING WIND AND NUCLEAR
So how does offshore wind stack up to nuclear? Moody's Investors Service, commenting in May about the rising cost of atomic power, said the potential cost of a new plant being proposed today is more than $7,000 per kilowatt of capacity. This equates to about $5.3 billion for every 750 megawatts of nuclear capacity added to the grid.
Helimax estimates that the average cost of offshore wind development in Ontario is about $3,800 per kilowatt, or $2.9 billion for 750 megawatts of offshore wind capacity – that is, a project the size of what Trillium has proposed.
Such a comparison, however, is misleading. The lifetime "capacity factor" of Candu nuclear reactors around the world is about 80 per cent, a figure some would call generous in the Ontario context. This means the reactors have produced energy on average that amounts to 80 per cent of potential capacity. Helimax said offshore wind turbines have a capacity factor ranging from 35 to 40 per cent.
So to get the same energy over the course of a year from an offshore wind farm you'd have to build twice as much. This makes offshore wind slightly more expensive than what Moody's is predicting for the cost of nuclear. But is it really? Offshore proponents are quick to point out that with wind power you don't need a lifetime supply of uranium fuel, don't produce toxic waste products, don't have to pay for long-term storage of those waste products, and have lower ongoing staffing and maintenance costs.
They acknowledge offshore wind isn't baseload power like nuclear. Then again, there's no risk of a 1,500-megawatt reactor shutting down for a month or two in the summer because of unscheduled maintenance, like we saw last summer at Pickering generating station.
Timing is also an important consideration. Ontario's first lake-based wind farms, should the province choose to go down the offshore path, could be built and operating by 2013 – a year before the last coal plant is scheduled for shutdown in Ontario. The new nuclear plant at Darlington, as much as the province may need it for baseload power, won't go live until 2018.
–Tyler Hamilton
June 30, 2008
Tyler Hamilton
KINGSTON–The sun was shining, the wind was gentle, and the water calm as a boatload of visitors to Kingston, guests of budding offshore wind developer Trillium Power, embarked last week on a three-hour tour of Lake Ontario.
The cruise was timed to coincide with a global wind power conference at St. Lawrence College.
Trillium's goal was simple: Show people, rather than just tell, how much stronger and consistent the wind is when venturing offshore.
About 30 minutes into the ride the mission was accomplished. What was a relatively smooth cruise became a stomach-churning experience as the wind-battered Catamaran, big enough to hold 180 people, began shifting back and forth in the water. Staff ran to keep bottles of wine from smashing on to the floor, while guests were urged to stay seated.
"The wind here is three times more powerful," said John Kourtoff, chief executive of Trillium, as he compared the potential wind energy from his project to existing onshore wind farms scattered around southern Ontario.
Kourtoff wants to build a 750-megawatt offshore wind farm in these waters, about 15 kilometres off the shore of Prince Edward County. That works out to about 150 wind turbines, seen as specks from the shoreline. And there's potential to double that.
Earlier this month, he announced the creation of Tai Wind, a consortium of North American offshore wind developers who hope, by combining their collective needs, to attract a turbine manufacturer to Ontario.
Already, Germany's Multibrid is seriously considering the invitation and, sources say, has begun high-level discussions between its executives and Ontario government officials.
Multibrid's interest is understandable. A recent report from energy consultancy Helimax concluded there were 64 sites on the Ontario side of the Great Lakes representing up to 34,500 megawatts of offshore wind capacity. This means the Trillium project is just scratching the surface.
Last week, for example, Toronto Hydro said it was renewing its efforts to establish an 80-turbine offshore wind farm near the Scarborough Bluffs.
"Offshore wind will be a driver of growth for the wind industry in the years to come," concluded investment firm Kyoto Planet Asset Management in a research report issued last week.
Also understandable is the government's interest. Embracing offshore wind is more than just adding more renewable energy to the grid, it could form the basis of a new "green" industrial strategy aimed at creating green-collar jobs. Multibrid is potentially the seed for that strategy, as it would need to develop a supply chain to support its Ontario growth plan. More than that, it sees Ontario as a manufacturing hub as it seeks to expand sales across North America and beyond.
It's welcome news at a time when production lines and plants are being shut down at Ontario automotive manufacturers. The idea makes so much sense that some unlikely alliances are being formed. When Trillium announced the Tai Wind consortium earlier this month, representatives from environmental groups WWF Canada and the David Suzuki Foundation shared the stage with the Canadian Auto Workers union, which fully backs the consortium's goals.
Natural Resources Minister Donna Cansfield told the Star that Ontario is "open for business" when it comes to offshore wind. George Smitherman, now minister of energy and infrastructure, wanted so much to express his support for wind industry growth in Ontario that just days after his appointment he made an unscheduled speech at the Kingston wind conference.
There's a sense of urgency, and a recognition that if Ontario doesn't act on the opportunity, other jurisdictions will.
But a big question remains: How much does offshore wind cost?
The Ontario Power Authority, the government agency that effectively determines which large power projects live or die, says offshore wind costs too much to be considered in its 20-year power system plan. It acknowledges that the technology provides more power than onshore projects, but not enough to justify the higher cost of building offshore wind farms.
"It should be borne in mind that there is currently no experience in Ontario with offshore wind resources, and it may be that additional information may become available over time that would justify further review of this issue," the power authority concluded in a recent amendment to its 20-year plan.
Herein lies a classic chicken-and-egg dilemma. How can the province get a true sense of development costs without forging ahead on at least one project?
We can point to ocean-based offshore projects in Europe and make comparisons, but there are major differences to consider that may work in Ontario's favour. For one, planting a big wind turbine in relatively shallow and calm lake waters would seem to be an advantage in terms of costs. And since we're talking fresh water, there's no risk of salt degrading the mechanical performance of turbines. Also important to consider is the degree to which local manufacturing could reduce turbine and component costs.
It's unclear whether the power authority has taken this into account. Nor has the agency considered larger economic considerations, such as job creation. Technically, it doesn't have that mandate. It exists to get what it perceives to be the cheapest, most reliable power it can for consumers and industry. Power authority executives, mostly former Ontario Hydro engineers who are smart and well intentioned, aren't naturally inclined to include wind, solar and other intermittent sources of renewable energy in their big-picture plans. They reluctantly do so under direction from the government.
The power authority, said one cruise guest, "has its hands full with nuclear" (see "Comparing").
Clearly, the government has some strategic decisions to make. Sooner, it would appear, than later.
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COMPARING WIND AND NUCLEAR
So how does offshore wind stack up to nuclear? Moody's Investors Service, commenting in May about the rising cost of atomic power, said the potential cost of a new plant being proposed today is more than $7,000 per kilowatt of capacity. This equates to about $5.3 billion for every 750 megawatts of nuclear capacity added to the grid.
Helimax estimates that the average cost of offshore wind development in Ontario is about $3,800 per kilowatt, or $2.9 billion for 750 megawatts of offshore wind capacity – that is, a project the size of what Trillium has proposed.
Such a comparison, however, is misleading. The lifetime "capacity factor" of Candu nuclear reactors around the world is about 80 per cent, a figure some would call generous in the Ontario context. This means the reactors have produced energy on average that amounts to 80 per cent of potential capacity. Helimax said offshore wind turbines have a capacity factor ranging from 35 to 40 per cent.
So to get the same energy over the course of a year from an offshore wind farm you'd have to build twice as much. This makes offshore wind slightly more expensive than what Moody's is predicting for the cost of nuclear. But is it really? Offshore proponents are quick to point out that with wind power you don't need a lifetime supply of uranium fuel, don't produce toxic waste products, don't have to pay for long-term storage of those waste products, and have lower ongoing staffing and maintenance costs.
They acknowledge offshore wind isn't baseload power like nuclear. Then again, there's no risk of a 1,500-megawatt reactor shutting down for a month or two in the summer because of unscheduled maintenance, like we saw last summer at Pickering generating station.
Timing is also an important consideration. Ontario's first lake-based wind farms, should the province choose to go down the offshore path, could be built and operating by 2013 – a year before the last coal plant is scheduled for shutdown in Ontario. The new nuclear plant at Darlington, as much as the province may need it for baseload power, won't go live until 2018.
–Tyler Hamilton
June 30, 2008
Tyler Hamilton
KINGSTON–The sun was shining, the wind was gentle, and the water calm as a boatload of visitors to Kingston, guests of budding offshore wind developer Trillium Power, embarked last week on a three-hour tour of Lake Ontario.
The cruise was timed to coincide with a global wind power conference at St. Lawrence College.
Trillium's goal was simple: Show people, rather than just tell, how much stronger and consistent the wind is when venturing offshore.
About 30 minutes into the ride the mission was accomplished. What was a relatively smooth cruise became a stomach-churning experience as the wind-battered Catamaran, big enough to hold 180 people, began shifting back and forth in the water. Staff ran to keep bottles of wine from smashing on to the floor, while guests were urged to stay seated.
"The wind here is three times more powerful," said John Kourtoff, chief executive of Trillium, as he compared the potential wind energy from his project to existing onshore wind farms scattered around southern Ontario.
Kourtoff wants to build a 750-megawatt offshore wind farm in these waters, about 15 kilometres off the shore of Prince Edward County. That works out to about 150 wind turbines, seen as specks from the shoreline. And there's potential to double that.
Earlier this month, he announced the creation of Tai Wind, a consortium of North American offshore wind developers who hope, by combining their collective needs, to attract a turbine manufacturer to Ontario.
Already, Germany's Multibrid is seriously considering the invitation and, sources say, has begun high-level discussions between its executives and Ontario government officials.
Multibrid's interest is understandable. A recent report from energy consultancy Helimax concluded there were 64 sites on the Ontario side of the Great Lakes representing up to 34,500 megawatts of offshore wind capacity. This means the Trillium project is just scratching the surface.
Last week, for example, Toronto Hydro said it was renewing its efforts to establish an 80-turbine offshore wind farm near the Scarborough Bluffs.
"Offshore wind will be a driver of growth for the wind industry in the years to come," concluded investment firm Kyoto Planet Asset Management in a research report issued last week.
Also understandable is the government's interest. Embracing offshore wind is more than just adding more renewable energy to the grid, it could form the basis of a new "green" industrial strategy aimed at creating green-collar jobs. Multibrid is potentially the seed for that strategy, as it would need to develop a supply chain to support its Ontario growth plan. More than that, it sees Ontario as a manufacturing hub as it seeks to expand sales across North America and beyond.
It's welcome news at a time when production lines and plants are being shut down at Ontario automotive manufacturers. The idea makes so much sense that some unlikely alliances are being formed. When Trillium announced the Tai Wind consortium earlier this month, representatives from environmental groups WWF Canada and the David Suzuki Foundation shared the stage with the Canadian Auto Workers union, which fully backs the consortium's goals.
Natural Resources Minister Donna Cansfield told the Star that Ontario is "open for business" when it comes to offshore wind. George Smitherman, now minister of energy and infrastructure, wanted so much to express his support for wind industry growth in Ontario that just days after his appointment he made an unscheduled speech at the Kingston wind conference.
There's a sense of urgency, and a recognition that if Ontario doesn't act on the opportunity, other jurisdictions will.
But a big question remains: How much does offshore wind cost?
The Ontario Power Authority, the government agency that effectively determines which large power projects live or die, says offshore wind costs too much to be considered in its 20-year power system plan. It acknowledges that the technology provides more power than onshore projects, but not enough to justify the higher cost of building offshore wind farms.
"It should be borne in mind that there is currently no experience in Ontario with offshore wind resources, and it may be that additional information may become available over time that would justify further review of this issue," the power authority concluded in a recent amendment to its 20-year plan.
Herein lies a classic chicken-and-egg dilemma. How can the province get a true sense of development costs without forging ahead on at least one project?
We can point to ocean-based offshore projects in Europe and make comparisons, but there are major differences to consider that may work in Ontario's favour. For one, planting a big wind turbine in relatively shallow and calm lake waters would seem to be an advantage in terms of costs. And since we're talking fresh water, there's no risk of salt degrading the mechanical performance of turbines. Also important to consider is the degree to which local manufacturing could reduce turbine and component costs.
It's unclear whether the power authority has taken this into account. Nor has the agency considered larger economic considerations, such as job creation. Technically, it doesn't have that mandate. It exists to get what it perceives to be the cheapest, most reliable power it can for consumers and industry. Power authority executives, mostly former Ontario Hydro engineers who are smart and well intentioned, aren't naturally inclined to include wind, solar and other intermittent sources of renewable energy in their big-picture plans. They reluctantly do so under direction from the government.
The power authority, said one cruise guest, "has its hands full with nuclear" (see "Comparing").
Clearly, the government has some strategic decisions to make. Sooner, it would appear, than later.
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