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Renewable energy stocks plunge as going green gets 'expensive'
Yahoo Finance ^ | 10/8/23 | Ines Ferré

Posted on 10/09/2023 7:08:36 AM PDT by CFW

Renewable stocks are taking an outsized beating among other stocks in the utility sector, which was down more than 10% last quarter.

Investors may be betting that going green will take longer and require more capital in a higher-for-longer interest rate environment.

“As utilities struggle with converting to more green energy, their operating margins are getting squeezed until they can get their utility rates increased,” Louis Navellier, founder of Navellier, a money management firm, told Yahoo Finance.

Higher interest rates are impacting the renewable sector because clean energy projects are capital intensive.

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“There is an exodus from ESG products that are suffering from outflows,” said Navellier.

The Global Clean Energy ETF (ICLN) is down about 30% year to date. The solar and wind energy benchmarks Invesco Solar ETF (TAN) and First Trust Global Wind Energy ETF (FAN) are down 35% and 32% during the same period, respectively.

The selling in renewables intensified after NextEra Energy Partners (NEP), a subsidiary of NextEra Energy (NEE) focused on renewables, cut its growth target by half to 6% through at least 2026.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: blackouts; energy; gccscam; greenneweel
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"Green" energy is expensive and less efficient. It requires mega amounts of other people's money to continue. Eventually, you do run out of OPM.

Just like the "green" funeral home that was in the news last week. In the end, all you have is rotting corpses.

1 posted on 10/09/2023 7:08:36 AM PDT by CFW
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“...as going green gets ‘expensive’”

Who raised the prices? Answer: No one.

Going ‘green’ was never cheap and THEY ALL KNEW IT.


2 posted on 10/09/2023 7:10:44 AM PDT by BobL (Trump gets my vote, even if I have to write him in; Millions of others will do the same)
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Shocked I tell ya

My favorite is the EV being pushed by coal miners to be plugged in at coal shack to charge

2nd is a large charging station, not sure where being powered by diesel generator

Can’t help but think of South Park episode every time this topic comes up

“THANKS”


3 posted on 10/09/2023 7:13:15 AM PDT by blitz128
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As utilities struggle with converting to more green energy,

There it is. "Green" energy at the utility level is always stoopid (hydro power being the only exception).

4 posted on 10/09/2023 7:13:19 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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no worries

they will declare a climate emergency

and it all becomes mandatory


5 posted on 10/09/2023 7:13:25 AM PDT by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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“Who raised the prices? Answer: No one.

Going ‘green’ was never cheap and THEY ALL KNEW IT.”


With inflation, the “10% for the Big Guy” has doubled to 20%. That’s where your increased costs come in.


6 posted on 10/09/2023 7:15:09 AM PDT by CFW (I will not comply!)
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As utilities struggle with converting to more green energy...

Well, it's no wonder they are struggling. Trying to circumvent the laws of physics never turns out well.

If there were better sources of energy than fossil fuels, wouldn't we be using them without government coercion?

7 posted on 10/09/2023 7:18:12 AM PDT by exDemMom (Dr. exDemMom, infectious disease and vaccines research specialist.)
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Notice how dicey things are about to get around the Persian Gulf? That black liquid energy could get expensive enough to make green energy look pretty good if the Straight of Hormuz got “NordStreamed”.


8 posted on 10/09/2023 7:18:50 AM PDT by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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2nd is a large charging station, not sure where being powered by diesel generator

That is in CA.

The Harris Ranch Tesla Supercharger station is an impressive beast. With 98 charging bays, the facility in Coalinga, California, is the largest charging station in the world. But to provide that kind of power takes something solar can't provide — diesel generators

9 posted on 10/09/2023 7:22:04 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (Don't blame me, my congressman is MTG!)
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To: CFW

Hahahahahahahahaha No Sh!t Hahahahahahahaha


10 posted on 10/09/2023 7:23:07 AM PDT by spincaster
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They know it’s expensive, they know it’s not reliable, and their goal is control and destruction of the West.

Kill the energy sector and bring in millions of low IQ non whites.
Deliberate.


11 posted on 10/09/2023 7:23:16 AM PDT by EEGator
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My strategy for "socially responsible" investing was doomed from the start, but it still feels like I'm saving the planet, so it's cool, right? /s
12 posted on 10/09/2023 7:23:33 AM PDT by equaviator (If 60 is the new 40 then 35 must be the new 15.)
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Butt, butt, butt sun and wind are FREE right? We’ve embraced both recently. Put up a nice double clothes line out back. Works great. Auxiliary in the garage in case of weather. Uh, climate alterations. Yeah, that’s it. 😁

🇮🇱👍


13 posted on 10/09/2023 7:25:28 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉 🇮🇱)
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In 15 months, our “equal payment” plan with NVEnergy has more than doubled. Our “equal payment” is higher than any bill we’ve ever had in 12 years. HUH? How does that work? Hmmmmm?

🇮🇱👍


14 posted on 10/09/2023 7:29:36 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉 🇮🇱)
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“My strategy for “socially responsible” investing was doomed from the start, but it still feels like I’m saving the planet, so it’s cool, right? /s”


As long as you “feel” as if you are doing your part and can signal your virtue to family, friends, and neighbors, that’s all that counts. Enjoy that feeling of superiority! Especially this winter as you wrap that extra blanket a little bit tighter around your shoulders. /s


15 posted on 10/09/2023 7:30:53 AM PDT by CFW (I will not comply!)
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Perhaps a lot of these analysts have electric cars that are 5 or 6 years old - little value and extremely expensive maintenance.


16 posted on 10/09/2023 7:31:00 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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Green now means Scam


17 posted on 10/09/2023 7:35:39 AM PDT by butlerweave
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I live in an area with the most fertile crop land in the country that doesn’t require irrigation

Yet tens and tens of thousands of acres are now being leased to build solar farms

We just found out this weekend about a 2000 acre project near is being discussed

We beat back wind farms, but absentee landowners are drooling in over those solar subsidies now


18 posted on 10/09/2023 7:46:00 AM PDT by digger48
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Just like the "green" funeral home that was in the news last week. In the end, all you have is rotting corpses.

I missed that one. Say more!

19 posted on 10/09/2023 7:46:49 AM PDT by NewHampshireDuo ( )
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The increased costs were known from the beginning. Solar panels take more energy to make than they produce. How will that ever make sense?


20 posted on 10/09/2023 7:47:04 AM PDT by EandH Dad (sleeping giants wake up REALLY grumpy)
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