Profiting from Clean Energy : A Complete Guide to Trading Green in Solar, Wind, Ethanol, Fuel Cell, Carbon Credit Industries, and More.
It provides an in-depth explanation of the technology and industry structure behind various sectors of this field and in the process identifies more than 150 stocks related to clean energy. Along the way, Asplund discusses exactly what it takes to effectively invest in clean energy—whether it be through buying individual stocks, investing in green exchange-traded funds or mutual funds, or trading the biofuel and carbon credit markets.
Features include:
• Clean Energy Investments and Performance - The Show Has Just Begun.
• Catalysts for the Clean Energy Industry.
• The Government Push - Strong Enough to Get Clean Energy to Fossil Fuel
• Clean Energy Potential - Double-Digit Growth for Decades.
• Solar Power - The Sky is the Limit.
• Wind Power - The Picturesque Dutch Windmill Gets a Technology Makeover.
• Fuel Cells - Present & Accounted for in Some Applications Already.
• Geothermal Power - Dante's Contribution to Clean Energy.
• Cleaner Utilities - Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks.
• Power Efficiency – "The Cheapest and Most Available Source of Energy Is the Energy We Waste".
• Power Storage and Backup Systems - When the Grid Just Won't Do.
• Ethanol/Biofuels - US Farmers Play David to OPEC's Goliath.
• Trading Biofuel Markets - Feedstock Frenzy.
• Big Coal - Meet Your New Partners: Cleaner Coal and Carbon Capture.
• Carbon Trading - Poised to Become the World's Largest Commodity Market?
• Investment Conclusions.