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Answer the questions:

What are the 10 biggest for-profit companies in this field?

See the 3 charts inserted below which split the leading companies between the fields of wind, solar, and tidal/wave.

How is the market distributed?

The market is unevenly split between large international manufacturers and small start ups. Across the market these companies have been sustaining losses this year so the make up of this field may change even by next year.

Where are they located? Are there any incentives for specific locations?

The majority of the companies are locate in the north east or mid Atlantic states or in California. This pattern most likely takes advantage of the leading universities that are located in these areas.

Correlate them with their main outputs (Data. Narratives. Tools)

It does not appear that regional clusters develop when outputs are correlated.

Data Data is largely drawn produced by government and non-profit actors. This data is made freely available as a means of promoting alternative energy innovation within a region. For example, many coastal states have developed and provided wind maps as a means for enticing developers to consider their coastline for offshore wind development.

Narratives For-profit narratives are probably produced in trade journals and industry texts.

Tools

  • All the companies fall under the tool creation output. Each industry, however creates different tools and some of the industries have more variation in tool type than other.
    • For example
      • Wind companies are split in their approaches because onshore wind has begun to grow but offshore wind is still relatively experimental in the US despite European offshore installations.
      • Solar is shifting cell technologies to a more efficient method of production but the industry shift is relatively uniform and the palyers that dominated the previous technology are successfully transitioning to the newer technology.
      • Tidal/Wave is very immature technology and it makes sense that without a leading successful model that there is still a lot of experimenting and variation. The tool diversity is best demonstrated by the leading companies in the field who have largely chosen different approaches to solving the same problem.


Understand and identify cases where these companies are “experimenting” or “adopting” commons-based approaches

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Identify what companies are the “Microsofts” of the field and what companies are the “IBMs” of the field

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Wind Companies 2008 Revenue Headquarters Primary Outputs Instances of Commons-based approaches
Vestas
€6.035 billion
 Randers, Denmark development, manufacturing, marketing and maintenance of wind power systems. ?
Clipper Windpower
?
 London, England turbine manufacturing and wind project development company ?
GE Energy
US$ 182.515 billion
 Atlanta, GA Wind turbine suppliers. Over 10,000 worldwide wind turbine installations. ?
Suzlon
$2.8 billion
 Randers, Denmark (moving to Aarhus, Denmark) supplier of wind turbines ?
Gamesa
€3.274 billion (2007)
 Navarra, Spain The company participates in"promotion, construction and sale of solar and wind farms; engineering, design, manufacture and sale of wind generators; energy solutions" ?


Solar Companies Revenue ($m) Headquarters Primary Outputs Instances of Commons-based approaches
SunPower
?
 San Jose, CA designs, manufactures and markets high-performance solar electric power technologies. ?
First Solar
$638 million (2007)
 Tempe, AZ design and manufacture solar modules ?
SunTech
?
 Jiangsu Province, People's Republic of China Wind turbine suppliers. Over 10,000 worldwide wind turbine installations. ?
Evergreen Solar
?
 Marlboro, MA "develops, manufactures and markets solar power products" ?
Applied Materials
$9.734 Billion (2007)
 Santa Clara, CA provides Nanomanufacturing Technology solutions for the global semiconductor, flat panel display, solar and related industries ?


Tidal Companies Revenue ($m) Headquarters Primary Outputs Instances of Commons-based approaches
Verdant Power
?
 New York, NY designs, analyzes, develops for manufacture tidal electric power technologies. ?
Ocean Power Technologies, Inc
?
 Pennington, NJ Company focuses on offshore wave power technology, specifically their PowerBuoy® system ?
Palamis
?
 Edinburgh, Scotland Manufacturer of offshore wave power technology, specifically the Pelamis Wave Energy Converter. This is a relatively mature technology that is deployed for commercial power generation. ?
Wave Dragon ApS
?
 Copenhagen, Denmark Tidal energy manufacturer producing a floating slack-moored energy converter of the overtopping type. ?
Hammerfest Strom
?
 Hammerfest, Norway develops and manufacturers tidal power stations. ?


Background for Questions:

Alternative Energy Market Information

Title: Clean Tech LLC (San Francisco, CA)


Wind

Market Information

Leading Companies

Vestas (Denmark)

Clipper Windpower (headquarters in the US but listed on the London Stock Exchange)

GE Energy (Atlanta, GA)

Suzlon (international, location in Chicago, IL for marketing only)

Gamesa (Navarra, Spain)

Annual Report: http://www.gamesacorp.com/files/File/MemoriaAnual2007_en.pdf

Developers

Blue Water Wind (Hoboken, NJ)

National Wind (Minneapolis, MN)


Solar

Market Information

Leading Companies

SunPower

designs, manufactures and markets high-performance solar electric power technologies 15 years of research and development
solar cells and solar panels are manufactured using proprietary processes
IP Strategy:
"We rely on a combination of patent, copyright, trade secret, trademark and contractual protections to establish and protect our proprietary rights.‚" Form 10-K Annual Report 2008
"Although we apply for patents to protect our technology, our revenue is not dependent on any particular patent we own.‚"

First Solar (Tempe, AZ)

"We design and manufacture solar modules using a proprietary thin film semiconductor technology‚" 2009 10K proprietary production process
"We rely primarily on a combination of patents, trademarks and trade secrets, as well as employee and third party confidentiality agreements, to safeguard our intellectual property.‚" 2009 10K

  • US Patents
    • 23 patents
    • 37 patent applications pending
  • Foreign Patents
    • 17 patents
    • 70 patent applications pending

SunTech

Evergreen Solar

"Develop, manufacture and market solar panels utilizing our proprietary String Ribbontm technology‚"

  • Patents
    • 22 U.S. patents,
    • 7 Indian
    • 6 European
  • Pending Patents
    • 20 U.S. patent applications
    • 26 foreign patent applications

Applied Materials


Tidal

Market Information

Tidal energy extraction: renewable, sustainable and predictable
Table 1. Tidal energy extraction device overview (includes the companies associated with each technology)
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_go2834/is_1_91/ai_n29429525/pg_16


Leading Companies

Verdant Power (US)

  • Home page: http://verdantpower.com/
  • Address:
    • 888 Main Street
    • The Octagon
    • Suite 1
    • New York, NY 10044-0213
    • United States
  • Phone:
    • 703-528-6445

Kinetic Hydro Power Systems
tested in East River, USA
Founded in 2000
Additional Links:
http://cleantech.com/news/companies/verdant-power
http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:Verdant_Power
http://venturebeat.com/2008/04/14/ontario-government-backs-verdant-power-tidal-energy-project/

Ocean Power Technologies, Inc

Palamis (UK)

  • Home page: http://www.pelamiswave.com/
  • Address:
    • Pelamis Wave Power Ltd.
    • 31 Bath Rd, Leith,
    • Edinburgh
    • EH6 7AH
    • Scotland. UK
  • Phone:
    • +44 (0) 131 554 8444

Floating, articulated device

Wave Dragon ApS (Denmark)

Slack-moored overtopping. Sea testing in Nissum Bredning, Denmark

Hammerfest Strom

Phone:

    • +47 78406200

"The Blue Concept;" Sea testing in Norwegian Strait of Kvalsundet, Norway

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