33% Of Planet Earth Will Face Water Shortages By 2025

We have been watching the BBC’s wonderful documentary, Planet Earth. The dangers facing the planet are many. One of them is water shortages. Water desalination technology leader Energy Recovery Inc (NASDAQ:ERII) had a mixed quarter. Q109 revenues grew 39% to $12.6 million to beat the market’s expectations of $12 million. EPS of $0.03 was in

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Forbes Column 2009: The Smart-Grid Dilemma

Zero-In this week highlights the disconnect between capitalism, market forces and the need for a smarter, cleaner energy world. Read The Smart-Grid Dilemma. Coming from a pure capitalist at heart, this is one of a series of columns you will be reading on the limitations of capitalism to do the right thing.

Deal Radar 2009: eMeter

It appears that President Obama’s Energy Policy will include substantial spending on smart grid technologies. Let’s look at one. San Mateo, CA-based eMeter provides enterprise scale energy information management solutions for the utility mass market with the goal of saving electricity by educating customers on efficient electricity usage. Its flexible SOA-compliant architecture integrates easily into

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Obama’s Economic Policy

Here are some comments from Forbes readers on my last column. My response is below. Please feel free to chime in.

Leadership Profile: Tom Werner (Part 11)

In order to have a mass market which could potentially consume all residential market (and expansion of commercial markets) places, awareness and motivation (incentive) must exist among the consumers. Further advocacy would also help grow the energy production market by utility companies. SM: What is the level of awareness and motivation in the marketplace to

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Leadership Profile: Tom Werner (Part 9)

After discussing German and Japanese markets, Tom visits the North American markets with a particular emphasis on California. Of particular interest is the amount of growth which is expected, spurred in part by governmental policy and incentive programs. We use that discussion as a catalyst to have some quick discussions on the current and projected

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Leadership Profile: Tom Werner (Part 8)

Germany has a political environment, influenced by voters, which is very supportive and progressive about solar energy. This has resulted in creating a very large and solid marketplace which SunPower has been able to capitalize on. SM: What has been driving Germany’s big focus on solar? Is that part of their energy policy? TW: When

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