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by Jon Mainwaring

The share price of energy efficiency company VPhase has had a poor run in recent months, despite the business having passed several milestones this year. Shares in VPhase, which are quoted on London’s Alternative Investment Market, slid during the summer from more than 8.5p each to less than 5p by late October.

Drilling for Joules, not jewels

By Jon Mainwaring

Magma Energy Corporation is striving to become the “pre-eminent geothermal energy company in the world”, so it is helpful that its management team boasts some impressive résumés. The company’s president, Dr Frank Monastero, headed up the US Navy Geothermal Program Office, where he was responsible for developing geothermal resources beneath lands controlled by the US Department of Defense. During his time with the Navy, Monastero supervised the development and operation of one of the world’s largest geothermal power plants: the 270MW Coso geothermal project at Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake in California.

Building electric dreams

By Jon Mainwaring

North America, and particularly the US, has long been the home of cheap petrol (or gasoline, if you prefer). Small wonder, then, that Americans have such a reputation for driving oil-guzzling behemoths while their European cousins have tended to opt for smaller, more fuel-efficient vehicles.

Providing the ’picks and shovels’

By Jon Mainwaring



The solar sector has had a tough time of it this year amid a slowdown in demand for solar wafers and modules. In Europe, this slowdown has been most apparent in Germany, where several solar companies have seen sales fall. Solar shares listed on Frankfurt’s ÖkoDAX index, which consists of Germany’s top ten cleantech shares, have been hit hard as firms like Q-Cells reported losses.