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SolarIndustryMag.com: Content / New & Noteworthy / Big-Name Investment Marks Pivotal New Era For U.S. Solar Projects
Mar 16th
by Lori Lovely on Thursday 15 March 2012
Although corporate investment in solar is nothing new, an influx of investment attached to high-profile names – such as Warren Buffett and Google – is now taking place as the solar sector matures.“High-profile investment lends credibility, but the increased level of investment is due to many factors, such as the federal tax credit, state solar support programs with set-asides that mandate solar renewable energy credits and more funding support,” says Lewis Milford, president of advocacy organization Clean Energy Group.
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Reading the Derivatives Markets: Oil Futures Prices May Not Mean What You Think
Jun 28th
This is one of my MUST READS.
Reading the Derivatives Markets: Oil Futures Prices May Not Mean What You Think | Texas Enterprise.
by Sheridan Titman on March 22, 2011
Written in conjunction with Malcolm Wardlaw
As I mentioned in my earlier posts on crude price divergence, the market’s view of the Gulf oil spill post-event and future oil prices, futures prices provide “forecasts” of future oil and gas prices. However, people in the industry tend to misunderstand the relation between futures prices and the prices that are expected to be realized in the future, and perhaps because of this, they tend to be somewhat critical about the accuracy of those More >
