Alternative Energy Sources Industry Competitors

ABEnergy knows its ABCs when it comes to wind energy. The company develops, owns, and operates wind-powered generation projects in the UK. It specializes in operating windfarms in less-windy areas of the UK. The company develops the projects in both green fields (such as farmland) and brownfields (former industrial or commercial sites)....

Alkane Energy pursues the arcane task of extracting methane gas from seven abandoned coal mines in the UK and one in Germany for the dual purposes of direct supply to industrial clients and for on-site power generation. A renewable energy company, Alkane aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions....

Catamount Energy believes that the answer to new energy sources is blowing in the wind. A subsidiary of Diamond Castle Holdings, the independent power producer has interests in wind energy and other renewable energy facilities in North America and Europe. It primarily sells its electricity through long-term contracts to utilities....

Community Energy is working to create greener communities in the northeastern and midwestern US. Through supply agreements with alternative energy generation companies and sales agreements with electricity distribution utilities, Community Energy, a unit of IBERDROLA, offers supplemental green energy solutions to 100,000 residential and business customers....

First water, then waste coal ... what next? Throughout its history Environmental Power has taken over independent power projects. The company acquires or develops and then sells hydroelectric and waste-coal generation facilities. Its Buzzard Power subsidiary has ownership of the company's Scrubgrass coal-fired plant (83 MW)....

Navitas Energy develops, owns, and operates wind energy projects in the US. The company sells power produced at its facilities to public, municipal, and cooperative electric utilities looking to provide green energy solutions to consumers. Navitas Energy provides financing, engineering, product selection, construction management, and maintenance services....

After a couple of years without an operating business, NewGen Technologies (formerly Bongiovi Entertainment) is once again revving its engines following a reverse merger with alternative fuel developer ReFuel America (which now functions as its operating subsidiary)....

Ormat Technologies is on an environmentally safe power trip. The company builds geothermal as well as recovered energy power plants. Geothermal technology extracts hot water or steam that is vaporized and used to drive turbines. The fluid is then cooled and recycled back through the process, making it a clean and renewable energy source....

Pandering to the energy-deprived, Panda Energy International develops, owns, and operates clean, low-cost power plants. The company has built more than 9,000 MW of electric generation capacity in the US. Panda Energy has sold its interests in four gas-fueled power plants in Arkansas, Arizona, and Texas to TECO Energy, and its stakes in projects in China and Nepal....

Energy can be so sweet for Séchilienne-Sidec. That's because the company produces some of it from the residue of sugar cane. Séchilienne-Sidec has interests in coal and bagasse (residue left over after a product from a plant, such as sugar cane, has been extracted) energy companies in Mauritius, and Réunion, and in Guadeloupe....

Got sun, wind, or hydrogen? Then Shell International Renewables may be able to turn them into fuel to power homes and vehicles. The company, a branch of Shell Gas & Power that oversees many of the parent's operations in alternative fuels, was formed in 1997 to commercially explore the global possibilities of new low-carbon power systems....

Like a summer breeze, Summerleaze has blown through a number of businesses -- aggregates, waste disposal, and renewable energy. The family-owned company, originally in the gravels/aggregates business, branched into using methane gas from the waste disposal landfills to make fuel....

Through its subsidiaries, Transtech Industries supervises and performs landfill monitoring, closure and post-closure procedures, and oversees methane gas recovery operations. The company also generates electricity from methane gas produced at a company-owned landfill site; this business accounts for all of Transtech's revenue from external customers....

Wheelabrator Technologies is on a roll. A subsidiary of solid-waste processing giant Waste Management, the company operates municipal-waste incinerators and trash-to-steam plants capable of converting 21,340 tons of municipal solid waste per day into energy....

AES SeaWest harnesses sea winds and other big blows in the West. The alternative energy company develops wind farms and provides operational services (including consulting, maintenance, and asset management) for its clients. Over the past two decades, AEA SeaWest has installed more than 3,150 turbines, totaling more than 772 MW of electricity in the US (in California, Oregon, Texas, and Wyoming) and 58 MW in the UK....

Ask anyone at Akeena about their company's name, and they'll tell you Akeena was the mistress of the Greek sun god Apollo. The company designs, markets, and sells solar power systems for residential and small commercial customers. They serve five states: California, Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania....

Alternate Energy provides alternative methods of fuel and power production. It is involved primarily in hydrogen production and fuel cell development. The company focuses on production of on-demand hydrogen, which uses the company's own chemical process to yield fuel cell-quality hydrogen from fresh water or salt water without harmful by-products or greenhouse gas emmissions....

Scotland's windswept Caithness region might well serve as an inspiration for Caithness Corp., which develops renewable power plants in the US under the Caithness Energy brand. Although the company has focused on the development, acquisition, operation, and management of geothermal, hydroelectric, wind, and solar energy power projects, it also has environmentally friendly fossil-fueled plants using coal and diesel....

EDF Energies Nouvelles is in bed with Mother Nature. The company developes, finances, builds, and operates power plants using renewable energies as raw materials. It operates more than 4,000 wind turbines and about 50 wind power plants in Europe and the US....

It's entirely possible that ENTECH holds the key both to future energy production and space exploration. The company provides solar power systems for houses and commercial buildings; its equipment can also be used for utility-scale plants and to power spacecraft....