Posts Tagged by Bill Paul
2GreenEnergy’s Financial Wizard Bill Paul on Shale Gas
| December 19, 2011 | Posted by Craig Shields under Fossil Fuels |
2GreenEnergy financial guru Bill Paul has a natural gift for looking at the macro issues affecting renewables. Here’s a high-level summary of his thinking on clean energy vis-à-vis shale gas, in which he summarizes:
There’s a distinct possibility that Wall Street’s going to start diverting big bucks away from green tech and into shale gas, if it hasn’t already. I see the billions going into shale gas infrastructure posing a huge impediment to developing clean tech. Read More
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Energy Videos for Newcomers
| October 13, 2011 | Posted by Craig Shields under Renewables - Science |
I’ve been preparing to make a few videos for newcomers to the subject of clean energy that answer basic questions on renewable energy, fossil fuels, nuclear energy, and the energy-related challenges we face. I’ll be recording a series of short talks, aided by graphics, that point out that all our energy sources go back to the Big Bang, and come forward through time to us as follows:
Solar power is nuclear, of course, as all that hydrogen that became our sun billions of years ago undergoes fusion and emits enormous amounts of energy. That which we accumulated over hundreds of millions of years as fossil fuels (ancient biomass) we extract and burn as oil, coal, and natural gas. That which we receive right now, or in the very recent past, we have the potential to harvest as renewables: photovoltaics, concentrated solar power, wind, new biomass, run-of-river hydro, ocean current, and wave. Read More
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2GreenEnergy's Financial Analyst, Bill Paul, on PBS's WealthTrack
| October 13, 2010 | Posted by Craig Shields under Renewables - Business |
Consuelo Mack’s award-winning show WealthTrack on PBS just aired the second part of the interviews they conducted with Bill Paul, 2GreenEnergy’s financial analyst. Again, our thanks to our friends at PBS for all the airtime, and congratulations on their decision to hail Bill Paul in the same way we do here: a visionary whose strength is based not on his bombast, but on his track record.
Of course, Bill’s core abilities lie in what he knows about the industry, and his ability to distill the enormous quantity of information he pores through every day. But I also admire the way he handles himself in front of the camera: he’s completely imperturbable. Catch his interviews here.
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Bill Paul, 2GreenEnergy's Senior Investment Advisor on PBS
| October 4, 2010 | Posted by Craig Shields under Renewables - Business |
2GreenEnergy senior investment advisor Bill Paul appeared on PBS’s Consuelo Mack’s show WealthTrack, which is airing on about 200 PBS affiliates in North America this week. Needless to say, the traffic on the site – and one my phone – is fairly intense. It’s wonderful to hear so many great questions and opportunities in the renewable energy space. Check out the show (linked above); he did a fantastic job as always.
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Bloomberg Businessweek — and Bill Paul — See Increase in Clean Energy Mergers and Acquisitions
| September 22, 2010 | Posted by Craig Shields under Renewables - Business |
This morning, 2GreenEnergy’s chief financial analyst Bill Paul, known to many of you through his exclusive webinar series here, called my attention to this Bloomberg Businessweek article on mergers and acquisitions in the clean energy space. Bill does seem to be able to get out in front of many of these trends, and correctly predicted this increase in M&A activity some time ago.
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Five Alternative Energy Companies Likely to See 100% Gain
| September 13, 2010 | Posted by Craig Shields under Renewables - Business |
This Wednesday, September 15th, energy industry guru Bill Paul will star in another 2GreenEnergy webinar on Alternative Energy Investing, in which he presents: The Five Alternative Energy Companies Likely to See 100% Gain in the Stock Price over the Next Six Months. I hope you can make it. Read More
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Deutsche Bank: US Completely Missing the 'Industrial Revolution' in Energy
| August 16, 2010 | Posted by BillPaul under Renewables - Business |
In a must-read story – Deutsche Bank’s Asset Manager head warned that US is missing out on an “industrial revolution in the energy industry,” Kevin Parker told Reuters that he is focusing billions in investment money on Chinese and European companies. Heads up, everyone who plans to listen to my webinar on companies that could see 100% stock-price gains. There’ll be more than one non-US firm in the mix.
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About Bill Paul, Contributor to “Renewable Energy Facts and Fantasies” – Business and Finance
| August 1, 2010 | Posted by Craig Shields under Renewables - Business |
Renewable energy legend Bill Paul has recently agreed to write financial reports and newsletters for us at 2GreenEnergy. We’re delighted to have come across such good fortune, as there really is no one more qualified for the task. Bill retired from the Wall Street Journal after a 20-year stint as a staff writer covering the energy sector, and gave a great interview of the book’s chapter on business and finance.
According to Bill:
Energy is at the crux of all things financial. There is not a single business that does not have energy as a significant cost factor, there is not a single country that does not have energy as a significant national security factor, and there is not a single household that does not have energy as an important budgetary factor. With energy, you are operating on all levels in terms of finance, as well as national security, as well as health consequences. You have privacy issues, property rights issues, basically any personal choice issue on lifestyle and you have a perfect storm of political, economic, and social interests — all competing for “the right” approach.
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2GreenEnergy's 500th Post
| July 20, 2010 | Posted by Craig Shields under Renewables - Business |
This is our 500th post. I wanted to use it to thank our clients, our guest bloggers, and our many thousands of subscribers — a large percentage of whom add fantastic and insightful comments and help make this a lively and interesting conversation. Special thanks to our business manager George Alger, financial guru Bill Paul, and to each of the 2GreenEnergy Associates for their extraordinary talents and support of the renewables industry. A world of appreciation from me to you, for the outstanding contributions you make every day.
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Why the US Isn’t Taking a Leading Role in Renewable Energy
| July 1, 2010 | Posted by Craig Shields under Renewables - Politics |
Perhaps the most common refrain in the clean energy industry is this: Why isn’t the US taking a leading role? Why are countries all over the world leap-frogging us Americans in this critical arena?
Of course our own Bill Paul talks about this constantly – but so do many others. Green Chip Stocks’ Nick Hodge notes:
Perhaps the best example is Papua New Guinea (PNG), where ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) is leading a $15 billion project to bring the county’s 22.5 trillion cubic feet of natural gas to market. But PNG doesn’t want the gas… They want the revenue from the gas to build out clean infrastructure; harnessing their hydro, geothermal, and biomass resources as they sell the gas to the U.S. and the rest of the world. The message is clear: You guys go ahead and waste time with coal and oil. Pay us for it while we beat you to a clean energy future.
Perhaps there is more complexity here than I can see from where I sit. But I don’t think I’m going too far out on a limb when I suggest that the answer to this issue lies in the disgusting bickering and backbiting that lies at the core of the way in which our leaders get things done in Washington. If one side of the aisle wants it, the other side is forced to oppose it. That’s just sickening.
And until we find a way to reform the entire process by which political campaigns are financed, prohibiting corporations from making massive contributions that effective purchase the will of our leaders, there is, in my estimation, no possibility of improvement. Yet, as I noted here, the Supreme Court doesn’t seem to see the issue the way I do. I hope folks will comment on this.
In any case, as the late Robert Byrd said, decrying the partisanship that polarized what had earlier been a friendlier and more honest Senate, “The current system is rotten. It’s putrid. It stinks.”
