GreenHouse Holdings, Inc. (GRHU.PK)

With 2011 just days away, GreenHouse Holdings, Inc. (Pinksheets:GRHU), a leading provider of energy efficiency solutions and sustainable infrastructure products, encourages and assists companies of all sizes with efforts to identify and adopt strategies that fully incorporate the various incentive programs offered through their local utilities. These programs provide significant monetary incentives for acting on projects that improve energy efficiency and pays consumers for participating in periodic consumption reductions (Demand Response or DR) — increasing a business’ bottom line for the coming year.

Automated Demand Response (ADR) is one of several DR programs available to commercial and industrial customers of California’s three Investor Owned Electric Utilities. The ADR programs as delivered by GreenHouse provides participating utility customers with the investigative, engineering and installation solutions (hardware and software) required to conduct a fully-automated (hands-free) load-shed. GreenHouse is uniquely organized with a professional and technical staff capable of delivering end-to-end ADR solutions.

“It’s going to be a very exciting year for economically sustainable energy and renewable fuels,” commented John Galt, Executive Chairman and founder of GreenHouse Holdings. “Rather than just being a growth year for renewable energy companies, we see 2011 as being the year of the Energy Efficiency Company; we want businesses to know that even small efforts to be sustainable through stewardship, can produce a persistent ROI over the longer term.”

Along with Demand Response, GreenHouse provides energy efficiency services for customers including General Dynamics, Gulfstream Aerospace, PepsiCo and its burgeoning relationship with the United States Army. The U.S. military continues to embrace and expand its use of green solutions on its bases throughout the world, enhancing the fast-tracked penetration of a domestic consumer market for sustainable products and services.

The question most frequently asked of GreenHouse by its clients is how to reduce (utility-influenced) operational costs by managing consumption. In an effort to be more sustainable or green, GreenHouse suggests companies adapt the following strategies and tactics to their business plan for 2011:

* When starting a consumption-related utility incentive program, partner with only highly reputable companies who know all of the facts; bad choices can actually escalate costs
* Use the latest in lighting technology and embrace proper lighting techniques for businesses
* Automation — the backbone of the energy efficiency process worldwide. Install an Automated Demand Response program (ADR) for energy efficiency and load curtailment
* Renewable Fuels (wind, solar, etc.) — Part of the equation, not the solution

“When companies have an Automated Demand Response system in place, and participate in load-shed events, they are doing their part to ensure that the region’s electric grid remains as stable as possible during peak demand periods,” commented Galt. “In California, DR programs enable utility customers to shed load based on either commodity pricing signals or urgent reliability needs. Again, in California, auto-DR takes demand response one giant step further; ADR participants often times receive costly automation and/or SCADA systems that not only perform the load-shed measures associated with a curtailment event, these systems are fully capable of providing ongoing energy efficiency benefits and detailed consumption.”

Many experts in the energy field agree that small changes often have the largest impact. For example, commercial buildings can easily raise (or lower during the winter) the set points on HVAC systems by a few degrees (+/-) and have a significant financial impact over their entire portfolio. Many well-known companies such as Wal-Mart and Target are reaping noteworthy benefits from simple measures such as this. GreenHouse also advises businesses to keep conditioned air inside the spaces meant to be conditioned. For example, a retailer may operate with their doors wide open on a hot summer day, allowing cool air to escape the space intended to be cooled off. That’s obviously a wasteful practice of significant proportions. Businesses should spend its cost savings on growing the business, not inflating their utility bills.

Another efficiency solution and sustainable infrastructure improvement a business should consider in 2011 is investing in solar covered parking. Reducing the influence of the elements on a parked vehicle significantly reduces “heating up or cooling down” time, resulting in a reduction in fuel consumption. Much more energy (fuel) is required to cool a car from 120° to 100° than 90° to 70°. Additionally, the energy produced by the solar PV can offset the requirements for utility-provided electricity as well as generate income through selling excess capacity to the utility. GreenHouse also recommends using Cool-Wall products for reducing the impact of radiant heat on the exposed surfaces of a building. Cool-Wall is documented to last much longer than traditional paints which potentially will reduce significant building maintenance expenses.

GreenHouse offers consulting services wherein a business can outsource all of the “heavy lifting” and planning that is required to be as energy efficient an operation as possible. Ideally, companies will employ an “Energy Czar” and tie their compensation to the financial benefits gained from implementing feasible sustainability practices. GreenHouse can help a business establish this position from candidate selection and training to delivering ready-to-go Strategic Energy Plans for a facility or portfolio. Either way, for businesses both large and small, companies like GreenHouse can support that effort.

“It doesn’t have to be an overnight leap into technology; it’s about thinking smarter about the resources we have and figuring out what works best for your business,” adds Galt. “It’s not going to be sustainable if it isn’t feasible or it’s overly burdensome on the business.”

GreenHouse Holdings, Inc., (Pinksheets:GRHU) (”GreenHouse”) a leading provider of energy efficiency solutions and sustainable infrastructure products, recently announced that it has been engaged to utilize Southern California Edison’s (SCE) Automated Demand Response (Auto-DR) program in Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation’s Long Beach, CA facility. GreenHouse is a qualified service provider of SCE’s Auto-DR program, providing site assessment, feasibility studies, project development, engineering, and installation of enabling technologies and complete processing of all incentives.
The Auto-DR program offers significant financial incentives and technical support to SCE customers with automated load control systems that participate in demand response events. Auto-DR uses control systems to automatically achieve specified energy demand reductions (kW and duration) during periods of peak energy consumption. In utilizing the Auto-DR system, Gulfstream will reduce electric consumption during costly peak energy periods when the demand is highest. Additionally, the system provides Gulfstream the ability to reduce operating costs by curtailing the use and purchase of electricity. Gulfstream will then receive financial incentives from SCE.
“Auto-DR is just one of the innovative services Greenhouse offers to help our clients reduce energy consumption by deploying state-of-the-art technology,” says Rob Davis, Vice President of GreenHouse Holdings, Inc. “We are truly honored to be selected by Gulfstream and we are looking forward to the Auto-DR project as the first of many services offered in support of Gulfstream’s corporate energy stewardship initiatives. This project goes to the heart of Greenhouse’s mission to deliver sustainable solutions that reduce energy consumption with a positive return on investment.”

Crown Equity Holdings Inc. (CRWE.OB)

Crown Equity Holdings Inc. (OTCBB:CRWE) (http://www.crownequityholdings.com) just recently announced that its subsidiary company, Crown Tele Services Inc. (http://www.crownteleservices.com ) is still moving forward after dissolving its joint venture with Communication Expert Corporation and will gradually start rolling out its internet based voice and video service IP-PBX solutions next year.

The cornerstone of Crown Tele Services Inc. strategy is to meet the highest standards when it comes to delivering VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) communication solutions specifically designed to meet the market needs.

Commenting on the venture, Kenneth Bosket, president said, “We are still excited with this opportunity to expand our footprint in this valuable market. The demand for internet-based voice and video services is growing exponentially and our new subsidiary Crown Tele Services Inc. has launched its new website and intends to emerge as a service provider of choice.”

According to ABI Research, the latest global business VoIP services forecasts show that the value of the overall market, which includes VoIP integrated access, SIP trunking, hosted IP-PBX/IP Centrex and managed IP-PBX services, is set to double over the next five years, to exceed $20 billion by 2015.

ING Risk Managed Natural Resour (NYSE:IRR) announced the quarterly distributions on the common shares of four of its closed-end funds: ING Infrastructure, Industrials and Materials Fund (NYSE:IDE), ING Global Advantage and Premium Opportunity Fund (NYSE:IGA), ING Risk Managed Natural Resources Fund (NYSE:IRR) and ING Asia Pacific High Dividend Equity Income Fund (NYSE:IAE) (each a “Fund” and collectively, the “Funds”). With respect to each Fund, the distribution will be paid on January 17, 2011, to shareholders of record on December 31, 2010. The ex-dividend date is December 29, 2010.

Eaton Vance Tax-Managed BuyWrite Income Fund (NYSE:ETB) announced the earnings of the Fund for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2010. The Fund’s fiscal year ends on December 31, 2010. For the three months ended September 30, 2010, the Fund had net investment income of $1,033,036 ($0.042 per share). For the nine months ended September 30, 2010, the Fund had net investment income of $3,135,542 ($0.127 per share). In comparison, for the three months ended September 30, 2009, the Fund had net investment income of $1,223,474 ($0.050 per share). For the nine months ended September 30, 2009, the Fund had net investment income of $4,207,195 ($0.171 per share).
Eaton Vance Tax-Managed Buy-Write Income Fund is a closed-ended equity mutual fund launched and managed by Eaton Vance Management. It is co-managed by Parametric Portfolio Associates LLC and Rampart Investment Management Company, Inc.

AVX Corp. (NYSE:AVX) has developed advanced capacitor arrays designed to shrink the circuit foot print, enhance EMI performance and improve overall manufacturing speed. AVX’s wide range of multilayer ceramic capacitor (MLCC) arrays include two-element arrays in 0405 and 0508 packages and four-element arrays in 0508 and 0612 packages with capacitance values ranging from 1pf to 2.2uf and voltages of 6.3V to 100V.
AVX Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, manufactures and supplies passive electronic components and interconnect products worldwide. The company operates through three segments: Passive Components, Kyocera Electronic Devices (KED) Resale, and Connectors.

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