Product Description

With Profiting from Clean Energy, respected investment analyst Richard Asplund provides an in–depth explanation of the technology and industry structure behind various sectors of this field and in the process identifies more than 150 stocks related to clean energy. Along the way, Asplund discusses exactly what it takes to effectively invest in clean energy—whether it be through buying individual stocks, investing in green exchange–traded funds or mutual funds, or trading the biofuel and carbon credit markets.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #42960 in Books
• Published on: 2008-04-11
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 370 pages

Review
"…offers readers a thorough guide to the basics of clean energy investment opportunities". (City AM, Tuesday 17th March 2008)

Review
"…offers readers a thorough guide to the basics of clean energy investment opportunities". (City AM, Tuesday 17th March 2008)

From the Inside Flap

Clean energy, simply put, has all the earmarks of being one of the best investment trends ever. Better yet, it is still very early in the game and the bulk of the money has yet to be made. This book provides investors with a straightforward guide on how to invest in the diverse and fast–moving clean energy sector.

The demand for new and cleaner forms of energy comes not only from climate change and energy security concerns, but also from the sheer amount of new energy generation that will be needed to satisfy the world′s fast–growing needs. World energy demand will grow 57% by 2030 and $4 trillion of new power generation assets are needed by 2030, according to official energy agencies. With this huge target market, the clean energy industry can easily grow at double–digit annual rates for decades.

Clean energy includes very different sub–sectors including solar power, wind power, fuel cells, geo–thermal, biomass and biogas, wave and tide power, efficient appliances and lighting, efficient buildings, smart meters, advanced power storage, hybrid battery technology, biofuels, cleaner coal, carbon trading, and others. Each of these sub–sectors features different technology, growth drivers, and players.

With Profiting from Clean Energy, respected investment analyst Richard Asplund provides an in–depth explanation of the technology and industry structure behind these sub–sectors and in the process identifies more than 150 stocks related to clean energy. Asplund provides criteria for choosing the best clean energy stocks and offers an investment opinion on each of the main clean energy sub–sectors. He also discusses how to invest in clean energy, whether through buying individual stocks, investing in green exchange–traded funds or mutual funds, or trading the biofuel and carbon credit markets.

In short, this book provides an easy way for investors to quickly become experts in the clean energy industry and discover its many exciting investment opportunities.

This book also has a companion Web site (www.ProfitingFromCleanEnergy.com) that will continue to provide essential information about this evolving topic. On it, you′ll find resource links for further research, industry conference lists, clean energy video clips, and much more. In addition, you can sign up for a free newsletter to receive timely news about the clean energy industry as well as updates to this book.

Customer Reviews

Complete, useful green investment guide
Clean energy's time has come. President Barack Obama's administration is emphasizing this point and communities worldwide are confirming it. As a result, clean energy research has become one of today's hottest topics, which makes Richard W. Asplund's book especially timely. This comprehensive, scholarly guide teaches investors about the factors that drive the clean energy business. Asplund explains the critical variables of various clean energy resources and identifies major companies in each specialized area. getAbstract recommends this reference work to active, self-guided investors who are interested in exploring clean energy's profit potential. They will appreciate Asplund's valuable research, which includes detailed explanations of green technology innovations and other current industry data.

Well-researched book on the cleantech sector

This book starts off with a good overview of the different ways individual investors can get into cleantech (from buying publicly-traded stocks to Exchange-Traded Funds, green Mutual Funds and so forth) and then sets out the background case for green growth, including peak oil, government incentives, and rising energy prices. The different chapters then move through solar, wind, fuel cells, geothermal, energy efficiency, smart grids, power storage, clean transport, biofuels, and carbon trading. As you'd expect from an equity analyst, this is a well-researched book and contains mini-snapshots of listed companies on various markets. Asplund concludes that "investors still have plenty of opportunity to get in at the early stages of this transition [to clean energy], which has only just begun. The bulk of the money in this sector has yet to be made". There will certainly be some bumps along the way, says Asplund, but the clean energy sector has all the earmarks of proving to be one of the best investment trends ever due to the sheer scale of the task in moving from a fossil fuel economy into a sustainable future.

Clean Energy
Well written book for the layman upwards. The book is however very US centric. As is the nature of this field, the rapid industry developments risk making this book dated in a short period of time.