Raser Technologies just announced that it has chosen Barbour Well, Inc., of Henderson, Nevada as its drilling contractor for the Lightning Dock, New Mexico project. Drilling is expected to begin next month, in May. They will start by re-entering an old well drilled in 1984 and left idle waiting for development that never happened.
Raser expects the Lightning Dock project to qualify for a grant of approximately $22 million under the American Recovery and Reinvestment … Read the rest
By Jeff Siegel of GreenChipStocks.com
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A Sleeping Giant
From time to time, you may find me referring to geothermal energy as the sleeping giant; it is an extremely powerful form of renewable energy that often gets overlooked. Let’s face it, solar and wind are a lot more visible than geothermal wells in the Nevada desert.
But geothermal does have one bragging right — a very important bragging right … Read the rest
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Raser just announced that it has been chosen as the sole-source contractor for an Indonesian geothermal feasibility study by Indonesia Power (IP). Indonesia Power was awarded a grant of $934,308 by the United States Trade and Development Agency for the study, which will examine the feasibility of developing geothermal power in the Tangkuban Perahu geothermal concession.
The grant covers about 70% of the cost of the … Read the rest
Raser Technologies (RZ) is moving higher in premarket trading after reporting better than expected results last night. The company reported a loss of .07/share which beat the estimate of -.11/share and is a big improvement over the year ago quarter when the company reported a loss of .17/share. That’s in large part due to the company now selling power from its Thermo plant to Anaheim, CA which is giving revenues a boost. The company reported … Read the rest
Raser Technologies (RZ) received another life line today, this time in the form of the U.S. Treasury for $33 million as part of the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act. Raser is expected to receive the funds in about a week and will be used to retire debt and obligations related to its Thermo No. 1 geothermal project which has so far been a money pit. The company will continue to seek additional financing to … Read the rest
Ormat has just announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Ormat Nevada Inc, has acquired HSS II LLC. Financial details were not disclosed, but the purchase includes the Hot Sulphur Springs Geothermal Project in NE Nevada. The project is almost fully developed and has a successful well. Nevada Power Company has signed a 20 year power purchase agreement to buy the power that the Hot Sulphur Springs Geothermal Project produces once it is complete.
In a , … Read the rest
With the explosion in the popularity of anything “green” including stocks, comes the unscrupulous, the frauds and the spammers. Certainly the stock market industry is littered with .. to be perfectly frank.. crap. Part of the goal in creating GreenStocksCentral.com was to not only keep you up to speed with all the latest news in the world of green stocks along with highlighting the best opportunities, but to steer you in the direction of top … Read the rest
It’s been a mighty rough year for Raser Technologies (RZ). With broken promises and financing concerns weighing on the stock, it trades down around a buck while many of its green stock peers move to new 52 week highs. It’s still a mighty speculative play, but the reward vs risk may be improving down here (a break below the buck level would change that view point).
After the bell yesterday Cantor Fitzgerald initiated coverage of … Read the rest
By Jeff Siegel of GreenChipStocks.com
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In the 1973 movie Papillon (adapted from the 1969 French novel by Henri Charriere), there’s a scene where Papillon is considering jumping off a cliff to escape the island on which he is being imprisoned. His friend Dega says, “It seems so desperate. You think it will work?”
And Papillon replies, “Does it matter?”
Papillon had two options: Stay on the island and … Read the rest
U.S. Geothermal (HTM) announced this morning that its subsidiary USG Oregon LLC has signed a 25 year power purchase agreement (“PPA”) with Idaho Power, a subsidiary of Idacorp (IDA) for the sale of up to 25MW from their Neal Hot Springs project in Oregon. Surprisingly, the stock didn’t move at all on the news, but it could very well move once the PPA is approved by the Idaho Public Utilities Commission in the … Read the rest