Cantech Letter interviews Michel Letellier, CEO of Innergex Renewable Energy

Letellier: "High leverage brings a high level of scrutiny on the part of the lenders. They want to make sure they have all the security, they want the major contract assigned to them, all the permits assigned to them and so forth. So it brings a form of diligence in the corporation, making sure that everything is in order before you get the financing."

BufferIs solar in or out of fashion this week? What about wind? Is hydro cool today? Few sectors are as cyclical as renewable energy. One day we’re hearing about feed-in tariffs sparking a frenzy in the Chinese solar industry, the next we are hearing about its imminent demise. Longueuil, Quebec’s Innergex Renewable (TSX:INE) was one [...]

M Partners John Safrance: Not much upside in Innergex Renewable for 2012

Gilles Lefrançois, founder and Executive Chairman of Innergex Renewable. M Partners Clean Technology & Infrastructure analyst John Safrance says there are few catalysts that make Innergex an attractive play in 2012.

BufferLongueuil, Quebec’s Innergex Renewable Energy (TSX:INE), which was founded back in 1990 but IPO’d in 2007, already knows better than most that the market can be fickle. After debuting at $11 a share, the cleantech offering almost immediately rose to $14. But the seemingly inevitable losses that saddle many with expansionary ambitions in the space [...]

Canada’s 10 Most Intriguing Cleantech Stocks

Duncan Stewart, Director of Deloitte Canada Research and co-author of the TMT Predictions event, says battery technology is one area of technology that simply doesn't follow Moore's Law.

BufferAre Canadian cleantech stocks dead money? Check out a long term chart of most of the issues in the sector stocks and you’ll find a persistent pattern; they fly high on promise then crash and burn on reality. That reality, more often than not, is that most new technologies face a longer and more arduous [...]

The 2010 Cantech Letter Awards: The Nominees

Mark Therier, President and CEO of SXC Health

When we decided to hold the first ever Cantech Letter Awards we were immediately faced with some tough choices. How many categories should there be? Which companies should be eligible? Should we simply take the ten best performing stocks and let our readers vote on them? What about revenue growth, is that more important than share price? Perhaps a combination of the two? Should a percentage gain in either be weighted more heavily to larger stocks? In the end we decided on two categories: Canadian Technology Stock of the Year and Canadian Technology Executive of the Year. We also invited a panel of judges to help us to not only choose the winners, but also the candidates…

Canada’s 10 Fastest Growing Tech Stocks

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BufferIf you are trying to measure how fast a company is growing it is, without doubt, best to take a long view. Revenues can be lumpy and unpredictable, especially for smaller companies that are just getting a foothold in the market. Cantech Letter’s own Quant Snapshots look at three year annualized growth. But just for [...]

2010: The Top 20 Canadian Techs (so far) This Year

Electrovaya's Maya-300, a zero-emission, low-speed electric vehicle

Buffer 2010: The Top 20 Canadian Techs (So far) This Year 2009 was a year of recovery for the worldwide markets, and Canadian tech stocks were no exception. Led by DragonWave (TSX:DWI) which began the year as a TSX Venture stock and ended with a full big board listing and a share price in excess [...]

Tom Konrad on Canada’s Top 10 Cleantech Firms

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Despite what he describes as our “lackluster approach to climate change”, new Cantech Letter contributor Tom Konrad is often surprised at how many of his favorite green stocks are listed in Canada. In our March issue. Tom critiques the recently published Corporate Knights “Cleantech 10 List”, getting us up to date on our top Cleantech firms.

Cleantech: Canada’s Best (so far) this Year

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2010 is barely upon us, yet some stocks in the TSX and TSXV Cleantech Index are out to a roaring start. In fact, the top company on this list has already tacked on almost 93% to its 2009 closing price. The editors of The Dollarton Cantech Letter give you the top five Cleantech gainers so far this year.