Energy in the Planet: Electric Earth Index

There are significant investment opportunities in companies focused on renewable energy, the environment, conservation and pollution abatement.  To pursue the theme Crystal Equity Research has maintained a collection of company lists to aid investors in finding and following canny technology developers and strong producers.

The Earth is dynamic with great forces of energy all around us.  As the sun heats the atmosphere, wind whips across open landscapes.  The ocean is under constant wave and tidal movement, sometimes calmly undulating and then furiously churning.  Rainfall and melted snow make the inevitable downhill race to the oceans, only to evaporate and repeat the same journey.  Our great cities and spreading farms lie innocently above a tempest of molten rock. 

The Electric Earth Index includes the companies that are attempting to capture earth’s energy in mechanical designs from wind mills, to wave machines, to solar concentrators.  Many investors will miss the solar cell producers.  We have included photovoltaic solar cell developers in The Atomics Index, where they fit well with other companies harnessing the power of the atom.

Among the renewable energy companies followed in these indices, the earthly developers appear to have settled into greater calm than others.  Granted Hydro Consulting and Maintenance Services was acquired by Thompson Construction Group, giving Thompson new abilities in the hydropower generation market.  Vertical wind power developer Sauer Energy and solar concentrating technology developer Sun Trough Energy both appear to have given up the fight. Otherwise, the lists remained largely unchanged other than a name change.  Naikin Wind Energy became Ocean Wind Energy.

 

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