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*Wind Farm Development<br> | *Wind Farm Development<br> | ||
**http://www.ecobusinesslinks.com/wind_farm_development.htm<br> | **http://www.ecobusinesslinks.com/wind_farm_development.htm<br> | ||
=== Solar === | |||
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*Solar Energy's Sunny Side: The credit crunch is putting the breaks on the plans of many solar companies. The survivors will be those with disruptive technologies.<br> | |||
**http://www.forbes.com/2008/11/24/solar-innovation-disruption_leadership_clayton_in_js_1125claytonchristensen_inl.html |
Revision as of 12:33, 15 March 2009
Answer the questions:
- What are the 10 biggest for-profit companies in this field?
- How is the market distributed?
- Where are they located? Are there any incentives for specific locations?
- Correlate them with their main outputs (Data. Narratives. Tools)
- Understand and identify cases where these companies are “experimenting” or “adopting” commons-based approaches
- Identify these cases and treat them as entities that will also be placed in our mapping*device (the quadrants)
- Identify what companies are the “Microsofts” of the field and what companies are the “IBMs” of the field
Background for Questions:
Market Information
Title: Clean Tech LLC (San Francisco, CA)
- Home page: http://cleantech.com
- Clean Tech Stock Index (76 companies, a good list of industry leaders): http://cleantech.com/index/index.cfm
- Google Finance: http://www.google.com/finance?q=++CLEANTECH+INDEX
Wind
Market Information
- Wind Power in the United States - 10 Companies to Watch
- America Wind Energy Association
- Annual US Wind Power Rankings Track Industry’s Rapid Growth (2007)
- http://www.awea.org/newsroom/releases/Annual_US_Wind_Power_Rankings_041107.html
- Annual US Wind Power Rankings Track Industry’s Rapid Growth (2007)
- Wind Farm Development
Solar
Market Information
- Solar Energy's Sunny Side: The credit crunch is putting the breaks on the plans of many solar companies. The survivors will be those with disruptive technologies.