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Venture Capital Expert, John Cavalier of Hudson Clean Energy Partners, Offers His Take on Trends in Green Technology
Green Investor Audio Series - Sectors like wind and solar have had a spectacular growth rate
POINT ROBERTS, Wash., Delta B.C., September 24, 2008 -
www.InvestorIdeas.com, one of the first online investor resources
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capital expert, John Cavalier of Hudson Clean Energy Partners.
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Podcast Summary:
Venture Capital Expert Offers His Take on Trends in Green Technology
John Cavalier founded the renewable energy practice at Credit Suisse,
and he's been a banker in the energy sector for more than 25 years. Now
he's with Hudson Clean Energy Partners, a venture capital fund that
invests in late stage renewable energy companies. In this interview, he
offers his take on some key trends in the sector.
Mr. Cavalier reports, “What we focus on first and foremost is the
management team .The sectors like wind and solar have had a spectacular
growth rate. That growth rate can cause as many problems as it does
provide opportunities. For example, wind has been growing at 35-50% a
year- so now you have very significant turbine shortages. PV has grown
at the same pace and you have real shortages in silicon. Silicon has
gone from $25 a Kilogram three years ago, to $400 a kilogram.”
What it means is – that those management teams that were not planning
and did not access their resources early on are going to be at a very
severe cost disadvantage going forward. The growth rates in these
companies are difficult to manage too. So the quality of the management
is extremely important.
In
solar you have some great CEO’s at the helm of SunPower Corporation (SPWR),
Suntech Power Holdings Co. Ltd. (STP) and
First Solar, Inc. (FSLR).
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