Three Stock Alerts: CREG, EFOI, OPTT
By Harris Roen Three volatile alternative energy stocks release earnings reports. Two of the stocks jump, one drops. China Recycling Energy Corp (CREG) More Info Latest earnings report for China Recycling Energy Corp shows a huge jump in revenues and net income. Insider selling, however, has led to stock losses. CREG is down 75% from where it was trading just this March. Seeking Alpha Energy Focus, Inc (EFOI) Profits...
$3 Billion For Cleantech & Alt Energy
Charles Morand The DOE made public earlier today the amount of money that will awarded to clean power projects in lieu of the usual tax breaks: $3 billion. This will allow project proponents to receive a direct cash grant now instead of a Production Tax Credit or an Investment Tax Credit later on. The guidance document notes the following: "Section 1603 of the Act’s tax title, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Tax Act, appropriates funds for payments to persons who place in service specified energy property during 2009 or 2010 or after 2010 if construction began...
Oceanfront View On The Wave Industry
by Debra Fiakas, CFA
Renewable energy developer Eco Wave Power Ltd. is reportedly planning a public offering of its common stock in Sweden. From its base in Israel, the company has developed proprietary technology to capture the energy in ocean waves and turn it into electricity. Eco Wave has systems in place in Gibralar and the Jaffa Port of its home country. Its pipeline of proposed projects encircles the globe through the United Kingdom, Scotland, Mexico and China among other countries.
With a building list of potential customers, Eco Wave needs capital. Management has disclosed that the 100 kilowatt wave energy installation in Gibraltar required $450,000...
Ocean Power Technologies Riding The Waves
by Debra Fiakas CFA Shares of Ocean Power Technologies (OPTT: Nasdaq) have traded off over the past two weeks, after setting a new 52-week high in early March 2013. Investors had bid the stock up in the weeks before the fiscal third quarter earnings announcement, but those gains almost have been erased. The new negative trend has put OPTT on our list of small-cap energy stocks sinking into oversold territory. Is the sell-off a chance to pick up shares of this ocean power developer at a bargain? A better question might be what was...
Incremental Advances in Wave Power Technology Not Enough to Temper OPT Q1 Losses
Marsha Johnston “We’re still at the point where the car industry was of not knowing whether the engine should be at the front or the back,” quips Christopher Barry, chair of the Ocean Energy Technical and Research panel at the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers. “At least a dozen companies are looking into …with at least half a dozen main ideas for getting the energy out that are distinctly different and many variants on those themes. There are lots of opportunities and we don’t know which will be the winner.” In contrast, he notes, turbine...
Ocean Power Technologies Bobs Into The Big Apple
by Debra Fiakas CFA Mid-June 2015, Ocean Power Technologies (OPTT: Nasdaq) announced final permits had been secured to deploy one of its power buoys off the coast southeast of New York City. The company has lost no time in laying down mooring lines for the buoy. The next step is to watch the skies for the best weather conditions to deploy the buoy. Over the next year, Ocean Power will collect data the power buoy’s performance. Ocean Power Technologies is a developer of ocean wave energy technology. The company has been...
