Immer interessant wie Aktien gelobt werden, die weder eine Dividende ausschütten noch deren Produkte ohne staatliche Eingriffe überhaupt
lebensfähig wären. Selbst wenn Windenergie wirtschaftlich werden würde, hätten Klitschen wie Nordex keine Chanche, gutes Beispiel ist die Solarenergie wo eine Firma nach der anderen in Deutschland jetzt den Bach runtergeht. Green Tech Doesn't Need Taxpayer 'Investment'
Submitted by Paul Chesser on Mon, 02/06/2012 - 09:27 ...We are a month into a new year, and reports continue to confirm that there is plenty of investment in alternative energy. According to a release last week by Ernst & Young, “cleantech” venture funding in the U.S. reached $4.9 billion in 2011. The amount was down slightly from 2010, but saw a 29 percent increase from the amount raised in 2009. “Cleantech is still in the early stages of a long-term journey,” said Jay Spencer, E&Y’s Americas Cleantech Director. “We’ve reached a point where new products and services are ready to be launched, and as these products come to market, we’re seeing renewed interest, innovation and opportunity in cleantech.” E&Y reported that 30 percent of the investment, or $1.5 billion, came from the energy/electricity generation sector, which includes wind and solar. Energy storage companies, which include manufacturers of batteries for electric vehicles and utilities, accounted for $932.6 million in “green” technology investment – a 253 percent increase in dollars over the year 2010. Besides those eye-popping private investment numbers, alternative energy is being adopted by major corporations on a large scale, as has been documented regularly by NLPC. First Solar expanded greatly thanks to an infusion of $150 million in the late 1990s by the late John Walton, one of the Walmart heirs. Duke Energy leads a parade of power companies in buying up wind and solar projects, and also the electricity that other providers generate. And despite realizing the folly of its “Renewable Energy Cheaper Than Coal” project, Google and an investment partner poured $189 million into four California solar plants. Many large companies are also expanding their use of renewable-generated power. Over a period of three months late last year, Walmart rose from 15th to 3rd on EPA’s list of the top green power purchasers, buying up 872 million kilowatt-hours. Computer chip manufacturer Intel ranked first, using 2.5 billion kWh. Other top Fortune 500 companies embracing “cleantech” on a large scale include Kohl’s Department Stores, Whole Foods Markets, Johnson & Johnson, Starbucks, Staples, and Lockheed-Martin. Despite the billions of private, non-coerced dollars flowing to technologies such as wind and solar, advocates for those industries and the politicians who pander to them are upset that government grants, loan guarantees, and tax breaks have, or will, disappear. The Treasury Department’s cash grant program, which gave developers 30 percent of costs in lieu of a tax credit, expired December 31. Also, a 2.2 cent-per-kWh production tax credit for wind is due to expire at the end of 2012. “Wind energy is one of the few sources of agreement in a divided Washington,” said Denise Bode, CEO of the American Wind Energy Association. “But with an expiration of wind’s key federal incentive, the Production Tax Credit, looming at the end of the year, these good manufacturing jobs are in peril.” “The wind power movement is providing us with a unique opportunity to advance energy as industry,” said Republican Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey. “By doing so, we have the ability to leverage our tremendous resources with ground-breaking technologies, allowing New Jersey to increase its use of renewable energy sources while advancing an industry that will lead to long term job creation.” http://nlpc.org/stories/2012/02/06/green-tech-doesnt-need-taxpayer-investment + “There’s going to be a lot of casualties in the wind and solar businesses, there already are in solar,” John Krenicki, who leads GE’s energy division, told Reuters in an interview last Monday. (gleicher link) aber folgendes hört sich doch wahrlich nicht so an als würde man sich Sorgen machen bei Nordex da dazuzugehören...werden eben die "Überkapazitäten" was abgebaut...sollte ja dann der Marge dienlich sein... Without federal funds, Illinois wind industry runs out of power
February 16, 2012
“There will be markets where wind will still be competitive,” says Dan McDevitt, vice president of operations at Chicago-based Nordex USA Inc., the North American subsidiary of a German wind turbine maker. “But the pie will shrink quite a bit. Some of us won't make it, obviously. It's simple economics.” http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20120216/...-runs-out-of-power
kommt ja die N117 gerade recht?...achja ich hatte erwähnt, dass ich mich darauf freue...) Sechs Windkraftanlagen von 140 Metern Höhe und mit 117-Meter-Rotoren: So sieht der Entwurf für den Windpark aus, der ab 2013 am Elzer Berg Strom produzieren könnte....."Als wirtschaftlich einzig sinnvoll ist eine Nordex N117 mit 140 Metern Nabenhöhe und 117 Metern Rotordurchmesser herausgekommen" http://www.fnp.de/nnp/region/lokales/limburg-lahn/windkraft-am-elzer-berg_rmn01.c.9134020.de.html (Anm. Projekt ist schon länger auf der Liste...)
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