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What is Peak Oil Investing? |
Peak Oil
investing is a set of strategies to make rational economic decisions in
the face of the radical financial, social and political transformations
which are the inevitable consequences of significantly higher oil prices.
Peak
Oil is the peaking of worldwide oil production, which may have already
occurred, or will occur in the next five, ten, or fifteen years. Many
experts argue that the peak of oil production will only be recognized
in hind sight. Regardless of when peak oil occurs, the
aftermath will be higher energy prices and wild fluctuations, at least
in relative terms, at the pump. Those consequences will ripple
throughout every sector of the economy, resulting in challenges and
opportunities of a magnitude unparalleled in human history. Peak Oil investing seeks to find ways to guide capital allocations
through the dislocations of this coming crisis in liquid energy sources
and the first forced change in the dominant energy regime in human
history. Opportunity will present itself in the form of new
technologies to recover previously uneconomic oil and gas resources, in
alternative energy forms and technology, from substitution effects as
high energy prices force consumers and businesses to make new choices
in everything from development patterns to retail to luxury goods. To understand the importance of peak oil, read this recently declassified CIA analysis of the Soviet Union's peaking oil production-- an event which brought down the world's other superpower.
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Renewable Wind get Colorado Boost from Xcel Energy |
Xcel (XEL) would become biggest Wind Power provider in U.S.
Xcel Energy announced today that it intends to acquire 775 megawatts of new wind power capacity for its Colorado system by 2007. The additional capacity would make Xcel Energy the nation's largest utility user of wind power.
The announcement today is part of filings made with the Colorado Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) on the company's Least-Cost (Resource) Plan (LCP), a process designed to address the state's growing energy demand. Xcel Energy also announced today that it intends to acquire approximately 1,300 megawatts of natural gas-fired generation from new and existing facilities between 2007 and 2012.
In addition, the company intends to acquire up to 30 megawatts of energy efficiency supplied by bidders, known as Demand-Side Management (DSM). Xcel Energy has committed $196 million in company-sponsored initiatives for the remainder of the DSM program, which would be an additional 290 megawatts. |
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Energy Impact slows Global Economy |
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