Alternative Energy & Utilities Report

September 19, 2011

Buy ($175)

Topics covered: Utility Infrastructure Capital Expenditures, Solar Energy Pricing, Smart Metering Adoption Trends, Government Subsidies and Regulation, Alternative Energy Generation

Companies covered: Edison International (NYSE:EIX), The AES Corporation (NYSE:AES), American Electric Power Company, Inc. (NYSE:AEP), Trina Solar Limited (NYSE:TSL), Total SA (ADR) (NYSE:TOT), Telvent Git S.A., SunPower Corporation, First Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ:FSLR), Evergreen Solar Inc., Energy Conversion Devices, Inc, Sempra Energy (NYSE:SRE), Southern Company (The) (NYSE:SO), Paragon Offshore plc (NYSE:PGN), Public Service Enterprise Group Incorporated (NYSE:PEG), Pacific Gas & Electric Co. (NYSE:PCG), FirstEnergy Corporation (NYSE:FE), Exelon Corporation (NYSE:EXC), Dynegy Inc. (NYSE:DYN), Duke Energy Corporation (NYSE:DUK), Dominion Energy, Inc. (NYSE:D), Constellation Energy Group, In, Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:ASTI), Applied Materials, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMAT), Advanced Energy Industries, Inc. (NASDAQ:AEIS), MEMC Electronic Materials Inc., Suntech Power Holdings Co. Ltd, MKS Instruments, Inc. (NASDAQ:MKSI), Grand Canyon Education, Inc. (NASDAQ:LOPE), Power Integrations, Inc. (NASDAQ:POWI), Gas Natural Inc. (AMEX:EGAS), Plug Power, Inc. (NASDAQ:PLUG), GlobalSCAPE, Inc. (NYSEMKT:GSB), Imation Corporation (NYSE:IMN), Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ:XLNX), Ross Stores, Inc. (NASDAQ:ROST), Donaldson Company, Inc. (NYSE:DCI), Caterpillar, Inc. (NYSE:CAT)