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The costs associated with citing and building wood bioenergy projects can exceed those to build and operate natural gas or coal plants (in terms of dollars per unit of electricity output). As such, factors determining the success and failure of more…
Recent rosiness reported in US housing markets triggered interest and trading in public timber REITs. Year-to-date, timber REITs and the Forisk Timber REIT (FTR) Index show positive performance (Table 1). However, the results vary by firm and sit below 2012 more…
From the desk of Amanda Lang, who attended and spoke at the Forest Landowner’s Association National Conference last week in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. “Forest certification” generated lots of questions from those attending the 2012 Forest Landowner’s Association national meeting. more…
This is the second in a two-part series related to the analysis of wood baskets and timber markets for investments in forest industry mills, wood-using bioenergy projects and timberland. Part I of Wood Market Realities (Stumpage Price Paranoia) addressed real more…
This is the first in a two-part series related to the analysis of wood baskets and timber markets for investments in forest industry mills, wood-using bioenergy projects and timberland. When analyzing timber markets or wood baskets, paranoia regarding stumpage price more…
A fundamental mismatch exists between clean energy projects and venture capital funds. This conclusion, in a Harvard Business School working paper “Venture Capital Investment in the Clean Energy Sector” by Shikhar Ghosh and Ramana Nanda, emphasized investor expectations of extraordinary more…
This is the third in a three-part series related to the financial performance, current trends and changing structure of the timberland investment sector. Newspaper headlines scream distractions. They make us forget that investments in timberland assets are somewhat insulated from more…
This is the second in a three-part series related to the financial performance, current trends and changing structure of the timberland investment sector. Part I of Timber in Turmoil (Private Timberland Purgatory) focused on the history versus current reality of more…
This is the first in a three-part series related to the financial performance, current trends and changing structure of the timberland investment sector. While trees continue grow, timberland values continue to fall. In the world of mortals, every financial return more…
Wood bioenergy projects continue to either gain traction or fall to the sidelines as investors shake the sector like a sack of Scrabble tiles. While the number of projects that pass Forisk’s screening methodology in April fell from 297 to more…