January 2019 – My Blog

Four Startups Receive California Energy Commission Continuation Grants

In 2017, the California Energy Commission began a new program to help innovators move their early-stage clean energy ideas from concept to possibility by providing up to $150,000 in funding…

jamur January 31, 2019

Corporate Governance Excess Returns Profitability

January 2019 Data Update 6: Profitability and Value Creation!

In my last post, I looked at hurdle rates for companies, across industries and across regions, and argued that these hurdle rates represent benchmarks that companies have to beat, to…

jamur January 27, 2019

Climate Change Research & Development

Energy Commission Addresses Climate-Related Wildfire Threat to Grid

The California Energy Commission has released a $5 million research grant solicitation designed to better protect the grid from the growing threat of climate-related wildfires. Transmission and distribution grids crisscross…

jamur January 24, 2019

Cost of capital Cost of equity Country Risk

January 2019 Data Update 5: Hurdle Rates and Costs of Financing

In the last post, I looked at how to measure risk from different perspectives, with the intent of bringing these risk measures into both corporate finance and valuation. In this…

jamur January 24, 2019

Renewable Energy

Rise in Renewable Energy Calls for Flexible Sourcing

The increased sourcing of renewables, such as solar and wind, is helping California meet ambitious clean energy and greenhouse gas reduction goals. But it also complicates the operation of the…

jamur January 23, 2019

Data Update Defining and Measuring Risk

January 2019 Data Update 4: The Many Faces of Risk!

I think that all investors would buy into the precept that investing in equities comes with risk, but that is where the consensus seems to end. Everything else about risk…

jamur January 21, 2019

Climate Change

Local Climate Change Impacts To Be Discussed At Symposium in Davis

The effects of weather extremes, as well as catastrophic and creeping habitat loss, will be among the issues discussed at the Sacramento Valley Regional Climate Symposium. The Feb. 6 event,…

jamur January 17, 2019

Renewable Energy

Las operaciones agrícolas pueden aplicar para fondos de energía renovable

La agricultura es un sector que desempeña un papel importante en la economía de California. También es vulnerable al cambio climático y es un contribuyente de gases de efecto invernadero.…

jamur January 16, 2019

Renewable Energy

Agricultural Operations Can Apply for Renewable Energy Funds

Agriculture is a sector that plays an important role in California’s economy. It is also one vulnerable to climate change and a greenhouse gas contributor. The California Energy Commission is…

jamur January 16, 2019

Teaching

Back to Class: A Teaching Manifesto!

I am convinced that each of us is granted moments of grace, where, if we are open to the possibility, we find out what we are meant to do with…

jamur January 11, 2019