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Almost a year ago, I wrote about several cleantech IPOs that were taking place at that time, in somewhat skeptical terms. And I wasn't alone. With the renewed, recent spate of cleantech IPOs and filings (Kior, Luca, et al), I looked back on that same column and thought it was worth bringing up and discussing again.

How are those IPOs from back then doing now? A123 is trading way down, Codexis is down significantly, Tesla is a little bit up, Amyris is quite a bit up, PetroAlgae is a pink sheet, and Gevo lowered their offering price but has been fairly flat since the IPO. So it's a mixed bag, not a resounding set of successes from which to draw inspiration. And yet, here it is summer again and we're seeing another wave of cleantech IPOs.

So is anything different? Actually, I think so — and in a somewhat positive way. Last summer I wrote that those IPOs were basically happening out of necessity: the funders of those companies had backed them with certain exit timing expectations, the 2009 IPO window had been slammed shut, the companies were running out of money, and so those companies were pushed through whatever tiny IPO window opened back up, ready or not.

What's not different now is that many of this summer's cleantech IPOs are similarly more akin to funding events than to liquidity events.  Companies like Kior and Luca are looking to Wall Street to provide growth and early-on project financing.  And why not?  VCs and PE firms aren't lining up to provide "first project" capital anymore, so biofuels and other capital-intensive companies have been looking to corporate balance sheets for that capital, but that often requires giving up a lot of value to the corporate partners. On the other hand, Wall Street seems willing to more cheaply provide the "first project" capital for many of these companies — at least for now.  

And that's one thing that's different: that this is an accepted funding path. One lesson VCs appear to have learned from cleantech IPOs over the past couple of years is that companies that have a) commercially-viable byproducts, b) a long-term story to tell around attractive primary products, and c) brand-name venture backers can indeed ask Wall Street to pay for their first commercial-scale production facility.  So that's what several of these companies appear to be trying to do. It also certainly doesn't hurt that oil prices are high right now, and many of these companies are directly replacing oil. 

And the other thing that's different is that there appears (at least subjectively, to me) to be a difference in terms of the quality of the companies (overall) that are IPOing this year. These are companies with better stories to tell Wall Street in terms of longer-term prospects and value proposition. And in several cases, they have recently raised a new financing round, rather than being low on cash. I'm guessing that's because some of the sense of 'IPO or bust' isn't in place for this year's crop, and that these companies are filing for IPOs more opportunistically than at the point of a bayonet.  While several of these filings similarly appear to be too early to IPO, perhaps if you view them instead as a public funding event, you can still feel good about the long-term growth prospects for the company.

I expect I'll get angry comments from both sides for making these observations — from skeptics for daring to suggest that some of these companies have good prospects, and from proponents who'll feel I'm still not giving these companies their due as the next Google. They're probably both right, somehow.

But either way, one thing that's the same as last year is that the IPO window is officially, if slightly, open.  And so it's "Everyone out of the pool!" time. I worry that in the mad rush to IPO, quality control is going to slip, and may have already. And that would once again muddy up the pool for everyone left still swimming: privately held firms awaiting their exit opportunity.

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With project financing and plenty of
photovoltaic (PV) modules, a shortage of projects with credible
off-takers seems likely to lead to further falls in module
prices.  How can investors best profit from this trend?

PV module prices
have dropped 70% since 2008, when the financial crisis sent demand
tumbling, with Chinese multicrystalline silicon module prices currently
as low as $1.49 per watt, according to Bloomberg
New Energy Finance’s (BNEF) Solar Spot Survey.  In part, this was
an example of “the Bubble giveth,
and the Bubble taketh away.” For the three to four years ending
in 2008, the long-term downtrend of PV prices, which had been driven by
the learning curve and imporving technology, stalled due to strong
demand. Then,
when the financial crisis suddenly removed the availability of cheap
financing, demand vanished, and prices plummeted.

style="font-weight: bold;">Plenty of Money

Today,
it’s
clear that financing is back. I recently attended the 8^th
Annual Renewable Energy
Finance Forum-Wall Street (REFF), co-hosted by the href="http://www.acore.org/">American Council on Renewable Energy
(ACORE) and Euromoney Energy Events.  At REFF, the room was packed
with
financiers ready to fund PV projects with credible developers and
quality off-takers, such as utility Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs),
solar and wind developers, and attorneys ready to draw up deals between
them.  Notabl alt="REFF Wal St logo.png"
src="http://www.altenergystocks.com/archives/REFF%20Wal%20St%20logo.png"
style="border: 0px solid ; width: 210px; height: 113px;" align="right">y
absent
among
attendees
were any utilities or other
large power
buyers. 

I find the absence of power buyers telling.  Yes, there are
utilities, businesses, and institutions signing PPAs with renewable
energy developers, but it’s a sign of the end-customer’s market power
that they don’t need to come to networking events like REFF Wall St to
get the word out.  href="http://www.reffwallstreet.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=272&Itemid=77">Brian
Matthay, VP Environmental Finance at Wells Fargo sees the
distributed solar PV market as limited not by the supply of panels or
finance, but by the lack of good deals.  For Wells Fargo, a good
deal requires a quality developer, with experience and a strong balance
sheet.

Wind is following a similar pattern.  According to href="http://www.reffwallstreet.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=260&Itemid=77">Pat
Eilers, Managing Director at Madison Dearborn Partners who spoke at
the conference, the locations of new wind projects in the US is driven
more by the availability of PPAs than the wind resource.  I even
met a wind developer who is following a new model because of the lack
of PPAs with favorable pricing, his firm is building wind farms to sell
electricity into the spot market: They don’t intend to sign a PPA until
pricing becomes more favorable.

style="font-weight: bold;">Plenty of PV Modules

Meanwhile, PV
module supply continues to grow rapidly.  According to BNEF’s
projections, even an optimistic projection
for PV demand is likely to fall short of supply in 2012 and 2013.

We last had a PV
module oversupply in 2009, after the financial crisis destroyed many
customers’ ability or willingness to borrow leading to a rapid fall in
demand. 
Prices promptly fell, which in turn lead to a rapid resurgence in
demand.  After falling short in 2009, demand slightly exceeded
supply in 2010.  In other words, over a period
of
about a year, PV demand has shown itself to be remarkably elastic and
quick to respond to falls in the price of PV.

style="font-weight: bold;">Potential Sources of Demand

I expect the
current and projected glut of solar modules will create lower prices
and a new demand boom.  BNEF’s projections for demand in 2012 and
2013 will likely prove to be too conservative, although many PV
manufacturers will be unable to make a profit at the lower price levels.

Market power will
shift from
solar manufacturers to solar customers.  The biggest
winners are likely to be end users, who will be able to get solar
installations for much lower prices than ever before, and those solar
installers able to reach out to the new classes of customers.

Where will the
demand come from? According to href="http://reffwallstreet.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=275&Itemid=77">J
Andrew
Murphy, Executive Vice
President of NRG Energy, it will come from the maturation of the
industry. He sees a growing customer awareness of electricity and
where it comes from, many more companies such as Wal-Mart, href="http://www.altenergystocks.com/comm/content/google/">Google
(GOOG),
and Whole Foods are not only investing in distributed generation
themselves, but presenting it to their shareholders and customers as
a value proposition. Those stakeholders, seeing that value
proposition then see the value in adopting distributed generation,
which usually means PV.

If there is a profitable opportunity in solar stocks, it will be in the
stocks of developers able to adapt to the needs of the new classes of
solar customers drawn in by rapidly falling prices.  I believe
that solar manufacturers see this, and that’s why many are integrating
vertically down the value chain by buying up solar developers, such as href="http://www.altenergystocks.com/comm/content/sharp-corp-adr/">Sharp’s
(SHCAY.PK) href="http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/Recurrent-Energy-Acquired-by-Sharp-Solar/">acquisition
of
Recurrent
Energy, and href="http://www.altenergystocks.com/comm/content/first-solar/">First
Solar’s (FSLR) href="http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2010/apr/28/solar-manufacturer-first-solar-buying-solar-develo/">purchase
of
NextLight last year.

A more recent development was the merger of two of the strongest
regional solar developers, when href="http://www.altenergystocks.com/comm/content/real-goods-solar/">Real
Goods
Solar
(RSOL) agreed to href="http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20110624/NEBULLETIN/106240351/-1/NEWSMAP">merge
with
leading
Northeastern
solar
integrator
Alteris in an all-stock
deal. As prices fall, typical customers are more likely to want a brand
they can trust and a one-stop shop for design, build, and
financing.  I expect href="http://www.altenergystocks.com/archives/2011/06/is_the_solar_installation_industry_ripe_for_consolidation_1.html">
solar integrators such as Real Goods that have a history of
successful acquisitions should do well, along with strong local
brands.  But that does not mean that Real Goods’ current high
trailing P/E of 38 is justified.  Solar integration is a low
margin business, and growth from all-share acquisitions such as that of
Alteris comes at the price of dilution of existing stock holders. 
As I concluded in my recent href="http://www.altenergystocks.com/archives/2011/06/is_the_solar_installation_industry_ripe_for_consolidation_1.html">
survey of solar industry integration, the industry is more likely
to produce steady cash earners than high-margin, quickly growing high
flyers.

Conclusion

While I expect the downstream portions of the solar industry to be
solid earners over the next few years due to the rapid growth of the
industry, that growth does not justify paying high multiples for a low
margin business. If I had to pick a solar stock today, I’d be more
likely to opt for the higher margin vertically integrated manufacturers
which are currently trading at depressed prices due to the current
glut.  My colleague Garvin Jabush considers href="http://www.altenergystocks.com/archives/2011/06/wall_streets_irrational_dangerous_hatred_of_solar_stocks_1.html">Wall
Street’s
current
hatred
of
solar
stocks to be irrational. It’s not
that he thinks module prices will not fall, but that such a fall in
prices is more than adequately reflected in stock valuations.  I’m
inclined to agree.

While Real Goods has only a 2.6% operating margin, and a 4.0% return on
equity (ROE), it trades at a forward P/E of 11 based on 42% expected
annual
growth in revenue.  Among manufacturers, cost leader First Solar
trades at an 11 P/E, but has a 28% operating margin and 19% return on
equity, numbers which seem much better able to fund the 27% expected
annual revenue growth internally.  href="http://www.altenergystocks.com/archives/2011/06/wall_streets_irrational_dangerous_hatred_of_solar_stocks_1.html">Jabush’s
pick, href="http://www.altenergystocks.com/comm/content/ldk-solar/">LDK
Solar (LDK), is also a vertically integrated
manufacturer/developer, and has a forward P/E of a minuscule 2.9, based
on
no expected profit growth and 12% annual revenue growth, which can
easily be funded by the company’s 20% operating margin and 38% return
on equity.

It’s always useful to understand future trends in the market, but
profits come from understanding the market’s reaction to these trends,
as well as the trends themselves.  Right now, investors seem
spooked by solar manufacturers, even though many of these manufacturers
have worked to integrate vertically along the supply chain making them
less sensitive to shifts in market power along the supply chain. 

Too often, investors in Renewable Energy get carried away by a positive
growth story, rushing to buy at any price.  This time, the
opposite seems true, and it’s the selling that seems to have gone too
far.  I’ve never been a solar cheerleader, and have always been
cautious about href="http://www.altenergystocks.com/archives/2009/10/why_do_green_energy_experts_buy_solar_stocks.html">confusing
the
growth
of
the
industry
with opportunity for the existing companies. 
Yet
right now, many solar stocks seem priced for long term zero, or
even negative growth.  That, to me, seems to be taking the case
too far.

DISCLOSURE: No positions.

DISCLAIMER: Past performance
is
not a guarantee
or a reliable indicator of future results.  This article contains
the current opinions of the author and such opinions are subject to
change without notice.  This article has been distributed for
informational purposes only. Forecasts, estimates, and certain
information contained herein should not be considered as investment
advice or a recommendation of any particular security, strategy or
investment product.  Information contained herein has been

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John Petersen

On June 27th Johnson Controls ( href="http://www.altenergystocks.com/comm/content/johnson-controls/">JCI)
hosted their href="http://www.johnsoncontrols.com/publish/us/en/investors.html">2011

Power Solutions Analyst Day and unveiled their expectations
for the future of stop-start idle elimination systems. After noting
that all automakers are developing a range of powertrains, JCI used
this graph to emphasize their view that the overwhelming bulk of
alternative powertrain vehicles over the next five years will have
simple, cost effective and fuel efficient stop-start systems.

You don’t see much about stop-start systems in the mainstream media
because politicians and reporters are too enchanted with plug-in
vehicles and other exotica to deal with mundane issues like purchase
prices and payback periods, but JCI has made it crystal clear that
its meat and potatos business over the next five years will be
cheap, not cool.

JCI’s estimates for market growth over the next ten years were
equally impressive, particularly when you realize that the advanced
energy storage systems required for stop-start generate twice the
per unit revenue and three times the per unit margins of flooded
lead-acid batteries. It’s a manufacturer’s dream come true, stable
unit volumes with rapidly increasing revenues and margins.

In their presentation JCI explained that the three key
attributes of energy storage systems for stop-start are:

• Cycling – reliable
  system charge/recharge cycles over time;
• Useable energy – range
  of stored energy that can be used to optimize the system; and
• Charge acceptance –
  rate of recharge to maximize opportunity capture.

It ties perfectly to a href="https://files.me.com/john.petersen/r941cj">joint
presentation from BMW and Ford at last fall’s European Lead
Battery Conference where the two automakers explained why the
stop-start duty cycle is so hard on conventional batteries. In a
normal vehicle, you start the engine at the beginning of the trip
and turn it off at the end. In a car equipped with stop-start, the
engine turns itself off automatically every time the car is stopped
and restarts automatically when the driver takes his foot off the
brake. While the difference between one start per trip and one start
per mile is enormous, a more critical problem arises from the fact
that stop-start systems require the battery to carry all accessory
loads during frequent engine off intervals.

In the segment of the BMW-Ford presentation that quantified a
typical stop-start duty cycle, the accessory load was 50 amps for 60
seconds, or about 3,000 amp seconds while the starter load was 300
amps for one second. In other words, the accessories accounted for a
whopping 91% of total load. Their graph of AGM battery performance
over time shows that charge acceptance (the downward curving blue
line) plummets as the battery ages while the time required to
recover from an engine off event (the upward curving red line) soars
from 30 seconds to three minutes or more.

Since all systems are designed to disable the stop-start
functionality until the battery has recovered an acceptable state of
charge, system efficiency falls off rapidly as the battery ages. The
automakers want and need something better than AGM batteries, the
principal solution that old line auto battery manufacturers like JCI
want to provide.

The first advanced technology introduced for stop-start systems was
developed by href="http://www.altenergystocks.com/archives/2010/10/maxwell_announces_an_important_stopstart_design_win.html">Continental
AG in cooperation with Maxwell Technologies ( href="http://www.altenergystocks.com/comm/content/maxwell-technologies/">MXWL)
for use in diesel stop-start systems from Peugeot. In this dual
device configuration an AGM battery carries the accessory load and a
supercapacitor module carries most of the starter load. It insures a
reliable engine restart, but can’t do much about the bigger problem
of accessory loads. Contiental and Maxwell expect that their system
will be installed in up to a million Peugeot vehicles in the next
three years. If the system works well for Peugeot and stop-start
vehicle sales ramp as rapidly as JCI expects them to, implementation
rates will probably be higher.

A second advanced technology solution for stop-start systems is a
third generation lead-acid-carbon hybrid that’s being developed by
Axion Power International ( href="http://www.altenergystocks.com/comm/content/axion-power/">AXPW.OB),

which hopes to begin a commercial roll-out of its PbC battery later
this year. In a joint
presentation by BMW and Axion at last fall’s ELBC, the
performance differences were obvious. The graph that tracked PbC’s
performance over time using the BMW-Ford test protocol showed that
charge acceptance (the flat blue line) stayed stable at 100 amps, or
twice the charge acceptance of a new AGM battery, while recovery
times (the flat black line) remained stable at 30 seconds.

The BMW-Ford graph shows that AGM batteries fade very rapidly over
the first 5,000 miles of use in a stop-start equipped vehicle. The
BMW-Axion graph shows that the PbC offers optimal performance
through 40,000 miles. In a recent presentation at the href="http://www.advancedautobat.com/conferences/automotive-battery-conference-Europe-2011/index.html">2011

Advanced Automotive Battery Conference in Mainz, Germany,
Axion unveiled an updated graph of follow-on testing through 80,000
cycles, or approximately eight years of use, with only modest
degradation.

I’ve been bullish about the future of stop-start idle elimination
technology for a couple years. If the JCI forecasts are even close
to accurate, I’ve been seriously understating the potential. Since
JCI is the largest lead-acid battery manufacturer in the world and
has a 36% share of the global automotive OEM and battery replacement
markets, it will undoubtedly be the biggest beneficiary of the rapid
worldwide implementation of stop-start idle elimination systems. The
second biggest beneficiary will probably be Exide Technologies ( href="http://www.altenergystocks.com/comm/content/exide/">XIDE),

which is emerging from several years of tough restructuring and
trades at a significant discount to JCI on a forward looking
earnings basis. Emerging technology developers like Maxwell and
Axion also have significant opportunities to grab a sizeable share
of what’s shaping up as $6 to $12 billion market niche. Their
respective market capitalizations are summarized below:

As former Axion director, I’m all too aware that it’s a very little
fish in a very big pond. I also understand why the PbC’s extreme
cycling performance and charge acceptance can be crucial to the
future development of stop-start, a world-class fuel efficiency
technology that’s already being produced at scale and will become
dominant in this decade. It’s easy to dismiss my ramblings
because I have a large stake in Axion. It’s harder to dismiss BMW, a
first tier automaker that joined Axion as a co-presenter at last
year’s ELBC. It will be darned near impossible to dismiss a big
three US automaker that’s apparently signed on as an Axion
subcontractor in a pending DOE grant application.

Disclosure: Author is a
former director of Axion Power International ( href="http://www.altenergystocks.com/comm/content/axion-power/">AXPW.OB)
and holds a substantial long position in its common stock.