Renewable Energy

Majority of Americans prefer ethanol

Renewable Fuels Association poll results
The Renewable Fuels Association contracted a pair of polling firms to survey voters beliefs on ethanol as a renewable fuel. Two firms were selected to get both Democratic and Republican opinion. The opening paragraph of the report, linked above, gives the results:
The on-going campaign to force the nation to revisit [...]


New Energy Finance - NEX - Weekly Review

Each week I provide a review of the previous week’s performance of the WilderHill New Energy Global Innovation Index, symbol NEX. This information is provided by New Energy Finance. The NEX is the bogey for the PowerShares Global Clean Energy Fund (PBD: 25.936 +0.386 +1.51%). These results are for the week ending on Friday. PBD [...]


Brazil to export 800 million gallons of ethanol to U.S.

DTN Ethanol Center
The article linked above is full of interesting facts about Brazil’s ethanol industry. The point I found interesting and used for the headline is the fact that ethanol exports from Brazil to the U.S. is expected to be 793 million gallons to the U.S. for 2007. This is in the neighborhood of 8% [...]


New Energy Finance - NEX - Weekly Review

Each week  I provide a review of the previous week’s performance of the WilderHill New Energy Global Innovation Index, symbol NEX. This information is provided by New Energy Finance. The NEX is the bogey for the PowerShares Global Clean Energy Fund (PBD: 25.936 +0.386 +1.51%). These results are for the week ending on Friday. PBD [...]


Positive data from VeraSun Energy

VeraSun Energy (VSE: 5.69 +0.16 +2.89%) President and CFO Danny Herron presented at the William Blair 28th Annual Growth Stock Conference 2 weeks ago. I listened to the replay, checked out the slide show and took some notes. The presentation was very upbeat, as they usually are. This is a company that has gone from [...]