Markets for energy efficiency in 2013: part II

The greenest in the United States holds the unofficial title of California. But Massachusetts could be the Crown of swipe card reader if it maintains the current pace of investment in green energy.

For those in the energy efficiency industry, Massachusetts is a State for the opportunity to see. The American Council for an energy efficient economy has named the top state for energy efficiency Massachusetts two years in a row. Massachusetts spends more per capita on efficiency than anyone else, and it requires that the utilities are looking for all cost-effective energy efficiency before the new power sources.

Expect the opportunity to increase in Massachusetts next year. A key State of advisory Council in November approved utility efficiency plans, the total $2.01 billion 2013-2015. The plans require the approval of the State Department of public utilities. A decision is expected by early 2013.

Utilities expect plans to 3.7 million MWh of electricity, enough to make more than 500,000 households to save for a year. Medium for the programs income from the coming greenhouse from a surcharge on bills and auction regional gas initiative.

Massachusetts utilities already offer a broad swathe of the efficiency programs under their previous three-year plan. A report of Energy Advisory Board of the Massachusetts State legislature highlights results and contains several short case studies, including:

Cape Cod of famous Sea Crest hotel is more than $83,000 yearly energy costs $413,000 store due to a renovation, the re-insulation, energy star Windows is highly efficient lighting and sensors, and a roof that isolated weather against the salty air. The Sea Crest get incentives for $126.536. payback is 3.4 Jahre.Simonds international, a global manufacturer of cutting tools, installed a $5.5 million combined heat and power. In place save the project is expected to be more than 24 years Simonds $1.7 million per year. Simonds received incentives for $606.546. payback family in the town of Westford is 2.9 Jahre.Eine installed more than a dozen CFL lamps without cost, after a test. The investigator also recommended to seal the air leaks and house insulation add 48-year-old. The cost of the project $3.486, partly by providing incentives in the amount of $2,550. $228.36 Family of annual energy savings and payback is four years.
Neighboring Connecticut is to see another State in 2013. Already highly keyed by ACEEE, Connecticut prepares a new State energy plan that in the draft form placed renewed emphasis on energy efficiency. "Among other things, what the plan for the reach of 'All areas and all the buildings' calls, including Government, municipalities, universities, colleges, schools, hospitals, churches, businesses and real estate." It places special attention on small businesses and low-income housing.

Connecticut's plan goes beyond a 'traditional focus on improved lighting and weather stripping, lower efficiencies in heating, air conditioning, ventilation, insulation, Windows, furnaces, boilers and other devices to deliver."

Furthermore, the Connecticut efficiency standards for new buildings and retrofitting plans set. The plan calls for building benchmarking and requiring that the owners then efficiency to disclose results for rental or sale of real estate.

Connecticut's proposal wraps the reader on the site of the Connecticut Department of energy and environmental protection can follow its way through the Government approval process.

Then there is California, no longer number one for energy efficiency, but always the elephant in the room when it comes to green energy in the United States. The California public utilities Commission has about 2 billion $ in energy-efficiency programs for 2013-2014 approved.

"The nearly $2 billion investment over the next two years allows utility companies, municipalities, non-profit organizations and others such as efficiency energy auditors programs dissipate installers and retrofit companies January 2013, electric and gas utility customers save energy, help", says Lara Ettenson, Director at the natural resources Defense Council, in a recent blog.

More information are advocating website California Department of the taxpayer.

For information on the prospect for the business in New York, in my blog December 12 "efficiency markets for energy 2013: part I" at RealEnergyWriters.com.

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ELISA Wood is a long-time energy writer, which carries regularly several top energy industry publications. Their work was picked up by the New York Times, CNN, and Reuters.

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Markets for energy efficiency in 2013: part I

A view over the landscape of the United States shows several rich markets for energy efficiency in the next year. Some arise from unfortunate natural disasters; others arise from the growing recognition by Governments that it is usually cheaper energy to save than it produce.

SuperStorm Sandy leveled neighborhoods in New York, and broken shores mansions in the middle and left tens of thousands still without power weeks after the disastrous end of October hit. Some buildings were so damaged, utilities simply could not connect it to the mains.

With $32 billion in debris left behind the effort of rehabilitation at the New York is enormous. It requires new walls, roofs, offers a tremendous opportunity to introduce more efficient replacement cables, lights, heating systems and appliances.

To this end, environmental groups urge New York controller of the State of energy efficiency to redirect money in a disaster fund. The money could go in incentives to choose the New Yorker, efficient building materials and devices, as they rebuild would promote.

Not one that is to be regretted the State do so would represent a missed opportunity, that if it meet a target, the energy natural resources Defense Council, citizens campaign for the environment and use a letter from pace & energy climate Center, Sierra 15 percent by 2015, according to Club, Alliance for clean energy New York, environmental advocates of New York.

Finally, is the time to promote an efficient buy, if a machine breaks. When consumers buy, thats new models; Replace only rarely work equipment only to upgrade to a more efficient model.

"New York recovery with a more efficient and reliable electric landscape must emerge from the post-sandy, but this requires all hands on deck approach," said the group in a letter to the New York Public Service Commission.

Although the resources allot, State regulators still now the funding that avoids investment costs can opportunity in New York for energy-efficiency companies and entrepreneurs, especially those for homeowners and businesses. This funding is spurred not only energy efficiency on a national level, but also solar-panel installations.

In addition to bread and butter energy efficiency insulation, Windows, appliances is a reconstruction Superstorm New York chance to innovate. He opens the door for companies, the smart-grid devices and makes install location. Governor Andrew Cuomo, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and other leaders have stressed that as utilities New York's grid, new structure, new technologies, to fortify the city against future storms must take into account. Edison, the New York City serves, has already stepped on the plate, committing consolidated by $250 million to strengthen and modernise its delivery of energy system as a result of sandy.

As often is the case of a power outage, now gave the storm a chance for cogeneration (CHP) striving for his stuff. CHP is highly efficient because produces two forms of energy from a fuel. The technique also serves as back-up generation. CHP units work locally, so not on utility wires often depend on, the primary victims of wind and falling trees in the storm. When the grid is down, CHP systems can continue to heat, cool, and provide lighting for a building.

New York City has encouraged the installation of cogeneration in commercial buildings for some time. So it is not surprising that stories around the Internet about building with CHP are now floating, that is never lost. These include building owned by New York University and a 14,000 units Bronx apartment complex called co-op city. In the nearby Connecticut Fairfield University retained power during Sandy because its CHP system such as Princeton University in New Jersey to Houston Advanced Research Center.

Chance for cogeneration is 50 percent an increase of the current cogeneration capacity is growing not only in the Northeast, but nationwide due to a goal by President Barack Obama that add United States 40 GW of cogeneration by 2020. The goal is ambitious, but Government and industry players to work to happen set.

Reconstruction of Hurricane Sandy opens new doors for CHP and other forms of energy. But New York is certainly not the only place boom is expected next year. Next week looks blog, California, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and other markets ready to thrive - as long as the Federal Republic of prosperity not undermine fiscal cliff of the energy efficiency industry.

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China's Solar Markets Also Catch Chill

Indeed, it is clear that no-one in the solar sector has escaped unscathed. For while there are those who would like to lay the blame for the current squeeze on China's doorstep, even some Chinese majors have suffered a noticeable dip.

Take Trina Solar, which announced its Q3 figures late last year. It reported that solar module shipments were approximately 370 MW for the third quarter of 2011, representing a decrease of 6.6 percent sequentially with 396.4 MW in the second quarter of 2011, though an increase of 27.4 percent year-on-year compared with 2010 Q3 of 290.5 MW. The decrease was primarily due to a reduction in available financing for some European projects and an increased customer credit risk management strategy, says Trina.

More significantly, net revenues were US$481.9 million, a decrease of 16.8 percent sequentially and 5.2 percent below the equivalent quarter of 2010, despite the significant increase in shipments. Losses from operations were $23.5 million, compared to a positive income of $32.8 million in the second quarter of 2011 and $113.0 million in the third quarter of 2010.

During the third quarter of 2011, the company announced supply agreements with Huanghe Hydropower Development Co., Ltd, a subsidiary of China Power Investment Corporation, for two ground-mounted solar projects in Qinghai, China for a total of 30 MW. It also signed a strategic partnership agreement with Origin Energy Australia to supply approximately 22 MW of PV modules.

Commenting on the figures, Jifan Gao, Trina’s chairman and CEO, said: "To best position Trina Solar going forward, we are refining our marketing and product strategies to address larger and more diversified distribution channels, in both established and emerging solar markets. These include growing the US residential leasing channel, where we recently signed a 60 MW supply agreement in the fourth quarter."

Looking forward, for the fourth quarter of 2011, Trina says it expects to ship between 320 MW-350 MW of modules. Based on this assessment it has revised its outlook for the full year 2011 PV module shipment down to approximately 1.4 GW, compared with previous guidance of 1.75 GW-1.8 GW.

Similarly, in its latest figures Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd, the world’s largest producer of solar panels, showed total net revenues of $809.8 million in the third quarter of 2011, compared with $830.7 million – a decrease of 2.5 percent on the previous quarter, and an increase of 8.9 percent year-on-year with $743.7 million in the third quarter of 2010. Suntech’s total PV shipments also increased, in this case approximately 16 percent sequentially, and 36 percent year-on-year with 1.6 GW of silicon ingot and wafer capacity and 2.4 GW of cell and module capacity as of the end of Q3 2011.

The sequential decrease in revenues was primarily due to a decline in the average selling price of PV products, partially offset by an increase of shipments, Suntech says.

Loss from operations in the third quarter of 2011 was $16.0 million and operating margin was -2 percent, compared to losses from operations of $170.3 million and operating margin of -20.5 percent in the second quarter of 2011. These figures compare with an income of $62.6 million and an operating margin of 8.4 percent in Q3 2010.

Dr Zhengrong Shi, Suntech’s chairman and CEO, said: "Looking forward, we expect excess capacity to fuel strong competition and consolidation in the next two to three quarters. This will be challenging for all solar companies." The company plans to meet these challenges by reducing operating expenses by 20 percent in 2012 and holding off on planned capacity expansion this year.

Yingli Green Energy Holding Company Ltd also announced its Q3 results, saying that PV module shipments in fact increased by 21.9 percent from the second quarter of 2011, reaching a new high. But although total net revenues were RMB4258.6 million ($667.7 million) and gross profit was RMB458.5 million ($71.9 million), operating loss was RMB 5.5 million ($0.9 million), an operating margin of -0.1 percent. Based on current market and operating conditions, estimated production capacity and forecasted customer demand, the company has revised its PV module shipment target downwards to an estimated range of 1580 MW-1630 MW from the previous range of 1700 MW-1750 MW for fiscal year 2011.

Putting this into a European context, we see Q-Cells’ Q3 figures showing revenues of €228.8 million, compared with €316 million in Q2, and a revenue target of €1 billion confirmed for FY2011. Q-Cells says it expects that the implementation of several major utility projects in the fourth quarter will produce revenues of a level similar to Q2. In the third quarter, the operating result was again negative, standing at -€47.3 million.

Like Yingli, Schott Solar AG, the parent company of Schott Solar PV, Inc, also reported an increase in module sales. For its fiscal year, ending September 30, 2011, that percentage of growth was in the double digits, despite a rather difficult market environment, the company says.

Schott said it will be discontinuing its wafer manufacturing activities at its site in Jena, also in Germany, with 290 employees affected. Overcapacities and severe declines in prices, particularly with wafers and cells, have been the dominating factors. They lowered their prices for modules once again by more than 40 percent just like they did in 2009, a statement from the company says.

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Hawaii business impact low markets.

Territorial Bancorp, Inc., Barnwell Industries Inc. and Hawaiian Electric Industries Inc. was the only Hawaii businesses find your stocks add value during the trade Tuesday and all less than 1 Perent obtained from them.

Larger markets ended Tuesday with losses: the Dow Jones industrial average was to close down 41.55 points on 12,226.64 and close the NASDAQ down 12.83 points to 2,804.35.

Gainers:

Hawaiian Electric Industries Inc. (NYSE: it) Castle at $24.80 to 3 cents.

Barnwell Industries Inc. (AMEX: BRN) Castle at $6.26, up 2 cents.

Territorial Bancorp, Inc. (NASDAQ: TBNK) Castle at $19.74 to 7 cents.

Loser:

Alexander and Baldwin Inc. (NYSE: ALEX) Castle at $42.01, from 50 cent.

Hawaiian holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: HA) Castle at $7.07, down 8 cents.

Bank of Hawaii Corp (NYSE: BOH) Castle at $47.48, down 58 cents.

Maui land and pineapple co. (NYSE: MLP) Castle at $6.81, down 19 cents.

Cyanotech Corp. (NASDAQ: CYAN) Castle at $2.62, down 2 cents.

Hoku Corp. (NASDAQ: HOKU) Castle at $2.30, down 8 cents.

Unchanged:

Central Pacific Financial Corp. (NYSE: CPF) Castle at $30.62.

ML macadamia orchards (other OTC: SPELLS) closed at $2.90.

Territorial Bancorp, Inc., Barnwell Industries Inc. and Hawaiian Electric Industries Inc. was the only Hawaii businesses find your stocks add value during the trade Tuesday and all less than 1 Perent obtained from them.

Larger markets ended Tuesday with losses: the Dow Jones industrial average was to close down 41.55 points on 12,226.64 and close the NASDAQ down 12.83 points to 2,804.35.

Gainers:

Hawaiian Electric Industries Inc. (NYSE: it) Castle at $24.80 to 3 cents.

Barnwell Industries Inc. (AMEX: BRN) Castle at $6.26, up 2 cents.

Territorial Bancorp, Inc. (NASDAQ: TBNK) Castle at $19.74 to 7 cents.

Loser:

Alexander and Baldwin Inc. (NYSE: ALEX) Castle at $42.01, from 50 cent.

Hawaiian holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: HA) Castle at $7.07, down 8 cents.

Bank of Hawaii Corp (NYSE: BOH) Castle at $47.48, down 58 cents.

Maui land and pineapple co. (NYSE: MLP) Castle at $6.81, down 19 cents.

Cyanotech Corp. (NASDAQ: CYAN) Castle at $2.62, down 2 cents.

Hoku Corp. (NASDAQ: HOKU) Castle at $2.30, down 8 cents.

Unchanged:

Central Pacific Financial Corp. (NYSE: CPF) Castle at $30.62.

ML macadamia orchards (other OTC: SPELLS) closed at $2.90.

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