Alternative Energy/IP Profile of Biggest for-profit companies in AE

Answer the questions:

1. 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
  
  • http://www.green-technology-investor.com/Wind-Power/US-Stocks-1-08.html
    

• 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
    

• Wind Farm Development
  
  • http://www.ecobusinesslinks.com/wind_farm_development.htm
    

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.
  
  • http://www.forbes.com/2008/11/24/solar-innovation-disruption_leadership_clayton_in_js_1125claytonchristensen_inl.html