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DEFG LLC Articles
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08/27/2008 |
Three Years of Green in Clean Tech |
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Jamie Wimberly, CEO of EcoAlign, EnergyPulse.net |
Three years have passed since the Distributed Energy Financial Group, LLC (DEFG LLC) launched its benchmark stock index, the Distributed Energy Stock Index, or DESI, to track the progress of the clean and alternative energy technology (clean tech) sector. more > |
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04/01/2008 |
Closing The Green Gap |
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Jamie Wimberly, CEO of EcoAlign, "Natural Gas & Electricity Monthly Journal” April 2008 |
Electric utilities are facing a triple whammy of growing environmental risk due to coal-generated electricity, a shortage of power generation and the lines to get the power to customers, and rising costs that are driving rising prices... more > |
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04/01/2008 |
Closing the Green Gap |
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Jamie Wimberly, CEO of EcoAlign, "Vistage E-Newsletter,” April 2008, Vistage International |
There is a growing green gap between companies and their customers in regard to climate change ... more > |
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03/28/2008 |
Utility Standards Board: Exploring the Opportunities for Standardization in Customer Service |
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Tom Brunetto, Managing Partner, DEFG, Energy Central Topic Centers |
The opportunities for standardizing business policies, processes, and system interfaces are vast ... more > |
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03/05/2008 |
Letter - Response to “Greed In The Name of Green” by Monica Hesse, The Washington Post |
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Jamie Wimberly, CEO EcoAlign, The Washington Post |
I found the analysis ... to be shallow and flawed. ... more > |
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12/12/2007 |
The Green Gap in Communications and Messaging |
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There is a growing misalignment between people’s stated intentions, e.g., their desire to be more environmentally conscious or to save energy, and their actual purchasing and consumption behavior ... more > |
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10/2007 |
The Color of Money |
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Tom Brunetto, DEFG
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Wall Street sees "green" in demand response, energy efficiency, and distributed generation. Will the industry step up? ... more > |
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08/16/2007 |
Profiting From Socially Beneficial Green Investment in an Era of Global Warming |
Peter Navarro, University of California-Irvine
Tom Brunetto, DEFG
Electricity Journal, August-September 2007, Volume 20, Issue 7 |
Three complementary solutions have been proposed to reduce the nation’s reliance on carbon-based central power. The purpose of this article is to examine various policy and strategic options that might help loosen, or lift, the constraints now holding the observed levels of socially beneficial green investment below what is socially and economically optimal. ... more > |
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07/25/2007 |
Letter - Response to "The Idols of Environmentalism" by Curtis White, Harpers Magazine, August, 2007 |
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If Curtis White takes the side of the angels, arguing against the false idols of scientific rationalism in favor of a focus on "spirit" and communion with nature, let me take the side of the devil. ... more > |
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06/06/2007 |
The Dawn of Electricity Competition: Efficient Prices and Efficient Choices |
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A recent study by the Alliance for Retail Choice (ARC) identifies regulated pricing as a key barrier to retail electricity choice ... more > |
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04/2007 |
CEO Wimberly quoted on Clean Investments |
Jamie Wimberly, CEO, Distributed Energy Financial Group LLC, quoted in Argus Monthly Global Emissions publication, www.argusmediagroup.com, ©2007 Argus Media Ltd. |
Jamie Wimberly quoted in two clean investment articles, Green Funds Clean Up and Power of the Index Attracts Investors, ... more > |
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03/30/2007 |
Letter - Response to "Buildings' Safety Easily Raised," Houston Chronicle |
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Nat Treadway, Partner, DEFG, Letter in Houston Chronicle, ©2007 Houston Chronicle. |
Fortunately, there is a marketplace solution that would improve midrise building safety ... more > |
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01/2007 |
Alternative Energy: An Investment in Hope |
Jamie Wimberly, CEO, Distributed Energy Financial Group LLC, AtlantaLifeMag.com, Copyright 2007, Atlanta Life Magazine |
Investors in alternative energy companies hope that their money helps protect the environment, weans the nation from its foreign oil dependency, ... more > |
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11-12/2006 |
Meeting The Commercialization Challenge |
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Cogeneration and Onsite Power Production Magazine article on Meeting the Commercialization Challenge ... more > |
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12/11/2006 |
The Future Utility Customer Service Model |
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EnergyPulse article on the Future Utility Customer Service Model: Analytical Approach ... more > |
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07/17/2006 |
Three Signs of a Ripening Market for Alternative and Distributed Energy |
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EnergyPulse article on the Market for Alternative and Distributed Energy ... more > |
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07/2006 |
Market Remains Bullish on Distributed Energy (Preprint Version) |
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Jamie Wimberly, CEO, Distributed Energy Financial Group LLC, "Natural Gas & Electricity" Monthly Journal, July 2006, Copyright 2006, Wiley Periodicals, Inc. |
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The Natural Gas & Electric Monthly Journal article on the DE Survey, "Market Remains Bullish on Distributed Energy" ... more > |
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05/23/2006 |
Rethinking Regulated Ratemaking: Menu-of-Service Electric Utility Tariffs |
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Nat Treadway, Managing Partner, Distributed Energy Financial Group |
2005/2006 IEEE PES Transmission and Distribution Conference and Exposition Session: PN14 - Rethinking T&D Architecture for a DER Environment, Part 1: Why? ... more > |
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03/12/2006 |
Letter in Response to Electricity Deregulation: High Cost, Unmet Promises |
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Jamie Wimberly, Letter to the Editor, The Washington Post |
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The Washington Post article on electricity price increases, "Electricity Deregulation: High Cost, Unmet Promises," was almost Orwellian with false comparisons and twisted analysis... more > |
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12/20/2005 |
Distributed Energy Sector Prospects - Read Past the Headlines |
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Jamie Wimberly, California Onsite Generation Newsletter |
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Current headlines have been filled with dire news and predictions about energy price increases and scarcity... more > |
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12/01/2005 |
Letter in Response to Clive Crook Commentary |
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Jamie Wimberly, Letter to the Editor, The Atlantic Monthly |
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Like the Energy Policy Act that Clive Crook dissects (“Does Oil Have A Future?”), I found his commentary lacked vision in regard to the market transformation taking place in the energy industry... more > |
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10/21/2005 |
The Business Case for Demand Response |
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Thomas Brunetto, DEFG Managing Director, and Jamie Wimberly, DEFG CEO appears in the October 21, 2005 EnergyPulse |
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The idea of encouraging customers to move electric load from peak to off peak periods, or conserve or use alternative supplies during peak periods is not new. This article discusses barriers to demand response and the business case that will ensure its success as an option to meet future energy requirements. (Comment online - go to EnergyPulse.net)...more > |
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02/18/2005 |
Resource Adequacy in U.S. Electricity Markets: Do the Benefits of Reliability Justify the Costs of Capacity? |
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Ronald J. Sutherland, Ph.D. and Nat Treadway, appears in the February 18, 2005 EnergyPulse |
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Regulators of electricity markets have been concerned about resource adequacy-–especially the need for generating capacity--since early in the history of regulation. We conclude that both regulated and restructured electricity markets tend to maintain unnecessarily large reserve margins that impose net costs on customers. (Comment online - go to EnergyPulse.net)... more > |
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04/24/2004 |
The Tipping Point for Distributed Energy |
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by Jamie Wimberly |
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In his seminal book, “The Tipping Point,” Malcolm Gladwell describes how little things can make a big difference. As he describes it, “The Tipping Point is the moment of critical mass, the threshold, the boiling point.”The Distributed Energy Financial Group (DEFG) was created because we strongly believe that the distributed energy sector will reach an inflection point, or tipping point, in its growth trajectory within the next three to five years, with very rapid growth thereafter... more > |
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03/21/2004 |
The Gap in Distributed Generation Economics |
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Tom Lord for Hart's Energy Markets |
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The landscape of distributed energy is changing. The last ten years has seen the gradual shift from large scale combined heat and power (CHP) projects that were scaled in the 10’s to 100’s of megawatts, to smaller scale projects in the single or even fractional megawatt size. What does this mean for the distributed energy market space? What other economic drivers will shift the power supply choices for consumers?... more > |
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01/15/2004 |
It’s A Wild World For Investors In The Distributed Energy Sector |
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by Jamie Wimberly for Electricity Today |
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A review of how the investment community is currently treating investments in distributed energy, alternative and emerging energy technologies and why the market is currently excited about the sector’s prospects in 2004. The article also contains advice to DE providers about how to approach the financial community... more > |
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12/17/2003 |
An Efficient Electricity Futures Contract Structure For Risk Transfer: Why Can’t We Get One? |
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By Tom Lord for EnergyPulse |
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The existing 5x16 electricity contract will never allow the creation of an open, liquid trading market; it just doesn't transfer risk reasonably. It is simple, it does wonders for generators but it can't get us where we want to go. There are three flaws that need to be addressed... more > |
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12/15/2003 |
Distributed Energy’s Promise |
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Tom Lord for Harts Energy Markets |
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Distributed energy offers utilities and their customers the opportunity to make more efficient use of the grid and save money at the same time. However, projects must be carefully designed within a regulatory environment that allows their benefits to be realized... more > |
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12/09/2003 |
Why Natural Gas Is Unstable Now |
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by Tom Lord EnergyPulse (online publication) |
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Tom Lord published an article in EnergyPulse regarding stable electricity markets. The same analysis applies to natural gas - there are fundamental changes in the natural gas market structure that is amplifying the swings in market prices and shortening the oversupply/undersupply swings... more > |
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08/19/2003 |
Matchmaking: Linking DE Firms and Investors |
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Nat Treadway. DEFG Managing Partner, EnergyPulse, August19, 2003 |
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Entrepreneurs need financial backing, and investors need information about which technologies have the potential to be tomorrow’s winners. How can the need for a matchmaker be satisfied? (Comment online - go to EnergyPulse.net)... more > | |
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