Renewable energy

Considering the generally high cost of air conditioning, the fact that New Mexico has the lowest average monthly energy bill of any state may come as a surprise. But perhaps more surprising is that its trick isn’t living by candlelight or killing the cooling system. It’s living by coal...

India’s Central Electricity Regulatory Commission proposed a 70-percent cut Monday in the cost of renewable energy certificates from $0.05 per kilowatt-hour to $0.015 per kilowatt-hour — and Axiom Capital’s Gordon Johnson said it’s not necessarily good news. “Given...

In a new piece for the Wall Street Journal, legendary activist investor and Icahn Enterprises LP (NASDAQ: IEP) CEO Carl Icahn discussed the rampant “manipulation, speculation, and fraud” going on within the U.S. oil refining industry. Icahn claims that the 2005 Renewable Fuels Standard...

Hillary Clinton’s defeat in the run for U.S. presidency represents an “incrementally negative” for the alternative energy space, mainly due to the “loss of policy support that had been likely” in case she had won, Barclays’ Jon Windham said in a report. Although...

Citi expects 10 percent upside in shares of independent power producers (IPPs) if Donald Trump wins the presidential election. This implies a Trump presidency would be a negative for renewable energy stocks, at least in the near term. A Trump Presidency Tina Fordham, Citi's political strategist...

In at least one segment of global energy demand, fossil fuel demand growth could peak by 2025. Tom Randall reports that Bloomberg New Energy Finance projects fossil fuel demand for electricity will finally hit its peak in another nine years. “You can’t fight the future,” the...

Goldman Sachs called grid-scale power storage “the holy grail” of renewable energy. Demand for electric vehicle power storage is a massive and mostly untapped market. Goldman advised investors to focus on backup power, peak shaving, renewables integration, ancillary services, T&D...

President Barack Obama's plan to fight climate change, by reducing carbon emissions and other greenhouse gases from America's power plants, particularly from coal-fired facilities, has come under criticism. Federal regulators recently expressed their concerns. Testifying before Congress...

U.S. stocks rose at the opening bell and continued to rise throughout the trading session. Investors and traders breathed a sigh of relief when the Federal Reserve indicated a rate hike is not likely in the short term. According to the Fed, it is examining multiple strategies to tighten its...

The aviation industry has come roaring back into the black after the dark years following the 9/11 terror attacks and the effects of the Great Recession. But one place where the industry still finds its profits being eaten away is in fuel costs. Last month, according to the Dallas Morning News...

It's fine and dandy to be long momentum stocks when they are on their parabolic moves higher. However, once the tide turns, it can get really ugly in a hurry. There is no better example of this price action than Tuesday's activity in the fuel cell sector, Plug Power (NASDAQ: PLUG) in particular....