As the U.S. gears up to double energy production. . .

Dear Reader,

If you're like most of us, you've spent most of the last 2 years tightening your belt, watching your spending and putting away as much as possible.

You've identified waste and eliminated it.  You've looked for bargains and may have even clipped coupons.

So what if I told you that about 60% of the power you buy simply vanishes on its way from the power plant, to your home?

It'd make you a little angry, right?  And it should.

Well don't spend too much time imagining it... because that's exactly what's happening today.

Thanks to an aging, overburdened, inefficient power grid... more than half of the energy produced today never reaches its destination.

You heard me right...

While the media and environmentalist groups rant on about global warming, enough energy to power 68 million households per year is wasted.

It's a loss that costs Americans over $297 billion every year.

But this is all about to end.

Some of the biggest names in the tech business...

... Names like Google, IBM, and GE - among many others - are investing billions to secure their share of this new energy market early on.

Simply put, they're building a new power grid - a Smart Grid - that will not just make power delivery far more effective...

But will completely redefine the way we purchase, receive and use our energy.

I'm talking about innovations that will let you:

• Set your home's thermostat from your cellphone
• Choose which renewable energy source to buy your power from
• Program your water heater only to run when the power is cheapest

And that's just scratching the surface.

It's the first change of this magnitude in more than a century... and it's shaping up to be the most extensive industrial retrofit in history.

In the coming decades, mammoths like GE and Cisco will share billions worth of government stimulus dollars, and make tens of billions in profit.

But these global giants will not be the real winners in this technological revolution.

You heard me right...

Established multi-national corporations will certainly see their share values grow.

But the real profits will be made by the start-ups who specialize in developing and mass-producing this world-changing technology.

In a few minutes, you'll learn everything you need to about a cutting-edge group of 'super startups'.

Right now, though, I want to explain to you exactly what's at stake, and how you can make your dreams of early retirement come true.

Because this massive technological initiative will mushroom...

Into As Much As $2 Trillion By 2030

And that's figuring conservatively!

According to a 2009 report by the American Society of Civil Engineers (which was issued to the U.S. electric utility industry), $2 trillion will need to be invested in our electric infrastructure by 2030 - just to maintain current levels of energy service for consumers.

We're not talking about exceeding goals or expectations here, folks.

We're simply talking about making sure we can still turn on the lights and heat our homes.

And while we're constantly hearing about new power plants being built to meet our rising energy needs - if you can't move that electricity - it's completely worthless!

And that's why energy utilities, national governments and some of the largest corporations in the world are tripping over themselves to develop a new Smart Grid that'll keep the power flowing - and generate billions in revenue.

It's not something they merely want to do for profits...

It's something they have to do, right now, or face a global catastrophy.

America's Electric Infrastructure is on the Verge of Collapse

When most folks flip a light switch or turn on their computers, they don't give a second thought about where the power comes from. And really, who does?

It's not something we really have to think about because our modern power grid consistently sends us all the electricity we need at any given moment. It's a luxury that most of us take for granted.

But what few people realize is that our "modern power grid" is anything but modern.

Truth is, nearly all of our entire electric infrastructure is based on the ideas of the same man who perfected the light bulb more than 120 years ago - Thomas Edison.

I'm not joking.

Thomas Edison actually laid the plans for the power grid we have in place today. The same plans that were used when the entire nation's appetite for electricity could be sustained by about a dozen or so power plants.

Clearly, times have changed. Take a look...

While the energy needs of today's modern world have changed dramatically from the past...

Our grid has remained the same.

Now think about that for a moment...

Everything that requires power today - from the computer systems that track our satellites to the pumps that bring fresh water into our homes - relies on basically the same technology that was invented back when indoor plumbing was considered a luxury!

So is it any wonder that today's electric infrastructure is falling apart before our eyes?

The infrastructure that we rely on today was never meant to handle today's demands.

In fact, according to The U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 62% of the power generated in the U.S. is lost - either through transmission or by poorly optimized appliances, lights, and other devices.

Can you imagine filling your gas tank, paying for 10 full gallons - but only receiving 4?

That wouldn't fly for one second.

Yet for years, we've been consistently losing more than half of the electric power we generate.

And this comes at a cost of more than $100 billion a year!

Or a better way to put it...

$100 Billion Up for Grabs - Every Single Year!

At least for those who are developing and investing in Smart Grid technology right now.

You see, using the latest in automated meter technology, advanced sensors and artificial intelligence software, Smart Grids are essentially making the delivery of electricity, much more efficient - and exceedingly more economical.

• Blackouts and brownouts will soon be a thing of the past
• Consumers will save nearly $1.5 billion annually
• U.S. businesses will save in excess of $100 billion by reducing unscheduled downtime

And of course... the Smart Grid is going to make us an absolute fortune.

Let me explain...

Google has already spent millions funding Smart Grid start-ups and providing software for Smart Grid projects in partnership with GE.

IBM has "committed $2 billion to fund start-ups and utilities working on smart-grid and green technology projects."

And General Electric recently paid the highest advertising rates out there to show their now famous Scarecrow Ad during the Super Bowl - just to show to you that they've staked their future on Smart Grid technology.

These are major players, my friend. And they're not doing this just for kicks. They're doing it because there are literally billions to be made by rebuilding the nation's electric infrastructure.

But here's the catch for investors...

The Smart Money isn't on Google or IBM or GE... even they're investing in other companies.  In fact, giant electronics companies have been building their stakes in tiny smart grid start-ups for years.

You see, investing in any of those companies will only net you a fraction of the Smart Grid profits you could be making at this very moment.

For the big payout, you have to go beyond the obvious behemoths, and...

Play these 3 Smart Grid Stocks

It doesn't take a genius to know that Google, IBM, GE, Cisco and others stand to make tens of billions in pure profit from the development and utilization of the Smart Grid.

But the fact is, that still only accounts for about 10% of the market.

Listen: No matter how much they push the Smart Grid, and no matter how many billions they rake in - these companies are simply too big and too diverse for this single initiative to make a noticeable difference on their balance sheets.

In fact, even with IBM's $2 billion investment... even with contracts in the hundreds of millions awarded to GE and Cisco... it all still accounts for less than 1/10th of the estimated $100 billion per year market.

And the remaining 90%?

Well, that's falling into the hands of a few dozen, under-the-radar companies that specialize in Smart Grid technology.

But there are only a few in particular that are looking to take the lion's share... now that the effects of Obama's promises (and funding) to support this technology have begun to kick in.

The Stimulus, as it's now known, allocated billions for the development of the Smart Grid.  And related stocks have been climbing higher ever since.

You can look to the charts below for proof of that...

And this is only the beginning.

Of course, you can still play the bigger names...

After all, major media outlets like MSNBC - who are owned by GE - would only stand to gain from your support.

But doing that would be like getting in on the top floor and waiting for them to build more onto the roof.

Besides, there's no point in wasting your time with the obvious. We're going right for the real money here. The double and triple-baggers!

And there's no reason you can't get a piece of this action, too!

I'll even show you how, in our new report...

Smart Profits from the Smart Grid:
3 Guaranteed Game-Changers

And I'll give it to you... absolutely free.

But first, let me introduce myself...

I'm Nick Hodge, and I'm the managing editor of the Alternative Energy Speculator.

During the recent Great Recession - while investors across the globe lost fortunes and watched helplessly as their wealth slipped away - I was delivering double, even triple-digit winners for my readers.

From a 110% gain on a Chinese solar play last August... to the 50 or so winners we've closed since, Alternative Energy Speculators were cashing in while the rest of the market took its biggest hit since the Great Depression.

That's part of the reason I get e-mails like this one all the time:

I made a respectable/nice profit on JA Solar per your recommendations and missed the market close today for SOL [as I live on the other side of the globe] but have my sell order in and will hopefully have a very respectful, short term gain at the opening - again thanks to your now clear expertise.

Nick - I really want to communicate my respect for your doing what you have by contacting me... clearly you care and took to heart my concerns about a particular recommendation in the face of a negative, disconcerting press release I read, which you personally addressed and today's signal supported your analysis which I seriously questioned. As they are very fond of saying here in New Zealand: Good on ya Nick! - Y. Ornstein

Listen: It all boils down to profits. And the fact is, readers of Alternative Energy Speculator closed 50 winners last year... while we were still very much in the thralls of recession.

That's just about one winner per week... 

Take a look for yourself:

Closed Winners

Company	Symbol	Exchange	Date	Initial	Sold	Status	Sold Date	Percent
Solarfun Power Holdings Co. Ltd.	SOLF	NASDAQ	2008-03-17	$9.40	$19.80	Sold	2008-08-25	110.64%
Flowserve Corp.	FLS	NYSE	2008-10-29	$52.31	$59.05	Sold	2008-11-03	12.88%
Johnson Controls Inc.	JCI	NYSE	2008-10-03	$16.37	$18.19	Sold	2008-11-06	11.12%
JA Solar Holdings	JASO	NASDAQ	2008-11-13	$2.20	$2.87	Sold	2008-11-24	30.45%
JA Solar Holdings	JASO	NASDAQ	2008-12-01	$3.12	$4.49	Sold	2008-12-31	43.91%
SunPower Corporation	SPWRA	NASDAQ	2008-11-13	$25.01	$36.90	Sold	2008-12-31	47.54%
GT Solar International	SOLR	NASDAQ	2008-11-13	$2.87	$4.10	Sold	2009-01-15	42.86%
Comverge, Inc.	COMV	NASDAQ	2009-01-15	$4.60	$5.48	Sold	2009-02-06	19.13%
Energy Conversion Devices, Inc.	ENER	NASDAQ	2008-11-13	$25.18	$26.01	Sold	2009-02-06	3.30%
SunPower Corporation	SPWRA	NASDAQ	2008-11-13	$25.01	$35.74	Sold	2009-02-06	42.90%
JA Solar Holdings	JASO	NASDAQ	2009-03-03	$1.83	$2.08	Sold	2009-03-04	13.66%
JA Solar Holdings	JASO	NASDAQ	2009-03-05	$1.82	$2.00	Sold	2009-03-09	9.89%
LDK Solar Co.	LDK	NYSE	2009-03-05	$4.52	$5.00	Sold	2009-03-10	10.62%
Renesola Ltd.	SOL	NYSE	2009-03-05	$2.16	$2.38	Sold	2009-03-10	10.19%
Shaw Group Inc.	SGR	NYSE	2009-01-07	$22.24	$24.60	Sold	2009-03-10	10.61%
Comverge, Inc.	COMV	NASDAQ	2009-02-17	$5.13	$5.94	Sold	2009-03-12	15.79%
Flowserve Corp.	FLS	NYSE	2008-11-06	$51.92	$58.94	Sold	2009-03-19	13.52%
ReneSola Ltd.	SOL	NYSE	2009-03-13	$2.15	$2.68	Sold	2009-03-19	24.65%
Suntech Power Holdings Co. Ltd.	STP	NYSE	2008-12-11	$9.56	$10.80	Sold	2009-03-26	12.97%

Those are just gains from late 2008 and early 2009. . . at the height of the recession. Have a look at the gains from the second quarter:

Company	Symbol	Exchange	Date	Initial	Sold	Status	Sold Date	Percent
American Superconductor Corp.	AMSC	NASDAQ	2009-01-07	$15.01	$19.08	Sold	2009-04-09	27.12%
Calgon Carbon Corp.	CCC	NYSE	2008-11-06	$14.90	$17.31	Sold	2009-04-09	16.17%
Johnson Controls Inc.	JCI	NYSE	2008-12-16	$17.25	$17.45	Sold	2009-04-17	1.16%
First Solar, Inc.	FSLR	NASDAQ	2008-10-07	$135.75	$146.68	Sold	2009-04-28	8.05%
JA Solar	JASO	NASDAQ	2009-04-07	$3.31	$4.52	Sold	2009-05-06	36.56%
Renesola Ltd.	SOL	NYSE	2009-04-07	$3.75	$4.38	Sold	2009-05-06	16.80%
Solarfun	SOLF	NASDAQ	2009-04-07	$4.30	$5.79	Sold	2009-05-06	34.65%
Ormat Technologies Inc.	ORA	NYSE	2009-02-26	$27.08	$37.06	Sold	2009-05-14	36.85%
Veolia Environment	VE	NYSE	2009-04-09	$23.13	$28.01	Sold	2009-05-14	21.10%
Yingli Green Energy	YGE	NYSE	2008-05-14	$7.69	$9.08	Sold	2009-05-15	18.08%
Intellon Corp.	ITLN	NASDAQ	2009-04-30	$2.62	$3.42	Sold	2009-05-19	30.53%
JA Solar	JASO	NASDAQ	2009-05-08	$3.95	$4.35	Sold	2009-05-27	10.13%
Tetra Tech, Inc.	TTEK	NASDAQ	2009-03-30	$20.26	$25.81	Sold	2009-05-27	27.39%
Renesola Ltd.	SOL	NYSE	2009-05-08	$3.95	$5.15	Sold	2009-06-02	30.38%

We're not done yet. These are my third-quarter gains:

Company	Symbol	Exchange	Date	Initial	Sold	Status	Sold Date	Percent
A-Power Energy Generation Systems	APWR	NASDAQ	2009-06-22	$7.55	$10.61	Sold	2009-07-23	40.53%
Caterpillar Inc.	CAT	NYSE	2008-12-18	$43.36	$45.45	Sold	2009-08-03	4.82%
Headwaters	HW	NYSE	2009-07-06	$3.00	$3.52	Sold	2009-08-05	17.33%
Insituform Technologies Inc.	INSU	NASDAQ	2008-05-01	$16.84	$19.01	Sold	2009-08-07	12.89%
Maxwell Technologies (Sold Half)	MXWL	NASDAQ	2009-05-14	$8.60	$13.89	Sold	2009-08-12	61.51%
Powershares DB Crude Oil Double Long (Sold Half)	DXO	NYSE	2009-07-06	$3.75	$4.82	Sold	2009-08-12	28.53%
Maxwell Technologies	MXWL	NASDAQ	2009-05-14	$8.60	$13.91	Sold	2009-08-21	61.74%
Powershares DB Crude Oil Double Long	DXO	NYSE	2009-07-06	$3.75	$4.10	Sold	2009-09-02	9.33%
Calgon Carbon Corp.	CCC	NYSE	2009-05-04	$14.84	$16.00	Sold	2009-09-09	7.82%
Clean Energy Fuels (blended price)	CLNE	NASDAQ	2007-07-12	$11.78	$13.70	Sold	2009-09-16	16.30%
Westport Innovations, Inc.	WPT.TO	TSX	2007-07-12	$10.50	$11.78	Sold	2009-09-16	12.19%
ABB Ltd.	ABB	NYSE	2008-10-17	$14.78	$20.61	Sold	2009-10-08	39.45%
EnerSys	ENS	NASDAQ	2009-05-27	$16.28	$23.25	Sold	2009-10-08	42.81%
Ultra DJ-AIG Crude Oil	UCO	NSYE	2009-09-24	$10.04	$13.50	Sold	2009-10-16	34.46%
First Trust Global Wind Energy	FAN	NYSE	2009-02-11	$11.01	$15.60	Sold	2009-10-29	41.69%
Trina Solar	TSL	NYSE	2009-08-21	$26.02	$34.40	Sold	2009-10-29	32.21%
Itron Inc.	ITRI	NASDAQ	2009-01-07	$62.46	$63.27	Sold	2009-11-23	1.30%
Broadwind Energy, Inc.	BWEN	NASDAQ	2009-10-16	$7.06	$8.42	Sold	2009-12-08	19.26%
Orion Energy Systems	OESX	NASDAQ	2009-11-30	$3.29	$3.91	Sold	2009-12-09	18.84%
Trina Solar	TSL	NYSE	2009-08-21	$26.02	$47.01	Sold	2009-12-09	80.67%
Yingli Green Energy	YGE	NYSE	2009-06-02	$13.69	$15.74	Sold	2009-12-09	14.97%

That's more than 50 winners in 12 months.

I'm confident that the Smart Grid plays I'm going to tell you about will be the next companies on that list.

That's why I've made them the focus of my brand-new special report: Smart Profits from the Smart Grid.

You see, I've uncovered 3 specific Smart Grid stocks that could realistically deliver gains in excess of 62%... 87%... and 112% - all within the next 4 to 6 months.

SMART GRID STOCK #1:  A provider of distributed control networks and energy communication devices. . . this company is already contracted with one of the world's largest fast-food chains

SMART GRID STOCK #2:  The go-to provider of smart thermostats and load management systems for the biggest electrical utilities in the world.

SMART GRID STOCK #3:  This company's coveted electrical control systems are already stoking buy-out rumors.  GE and Siemens would both love to get a piece.

I'm absolutely serious about this!

And everything you need to know about these stocks - from who's getting Federal dollars to which technologies will be the most widely used - can be found in your free report - Smart Profits from the Smart Grid.

Of course, these 3 Smart Grid stocks are really just the tip of the iceberg.

At this very moment, we have 7 new stocks in our queue.

That means at any moment, we're going to issue as many as 7 new recommendations... across all sectors of the alternative energy industry... from solar to wind to water.

That's on top of the hundreds of winners we've closed in the past few years and the dozen or so other winners that we're sitting on... just waiting to take bigger gains.

And I want you to profit from each and every one of these. Starting with our latest Smart Grid plays.

Just accept a no-risk charter membership to the Alternative Energy Speculator right now, and I'll immediately send you our latest report: Smart Profits from the Smart Grid.

Plus... I'll also send you a username and password for the Alternative Energy Speculator web site - where you'll have unlimited access to past issues, our complete portfolio, and our entire library of research reports, including...

• Infrastructure Investing: Sky-High Underground Profits

• Blue Gold: Profiting from the "Energy-Water Nexus"

• Wind Energy: 3 Stocks To Own NOW

In addition to these reports, every week you'll also receive detailed updates on the companies in the Alternative Energy Speculator's portfolio. You'll learn how they're doing, the latest in their research, and any breakthroughs that come through in the sector.

Plus, the second we decide to add or sell a company, I'll contact you - immediately.

You'll know at what price to get in, how much you should expect to make and, most importantly, when to sell.

These instant alerts are simply too important for the weekly issue.

Now understand, with all the time that goes into uncovering these little-known energy plays found in the Alternative Energy Speculator, and the substantially larger gains involved, we had no choice but to make it somewhat pricier than our flagship Green Chip Stocks service.

In other words, we had to cover our own cost of unearthing these gems.

Since we do a great deal of travel, meet with CEOs, and inspect many of the companies with our own eyes, it tends to get pricey... especially when you consider how many opportunities we turn down before we find one worth getting excited about.

And that's why the membership fee is $499 per year... But with 50 winning picks last year year - on pace for more than 60 in 2010 - that translates into only $8.00 per winning recommendation.

That's nothing, espcially since 35 of the closed 50 last year were double baggers. You'd pay $8.00 to earn 40% on a stock, right? This is the same thing... only on a much bigger and more profitable scale.

Of course, you can always save money by signing up for our two-year option for just $699.  That means you won't miss a single pick or buy/sell recommendation for two years. And even better: no annoying renewal notices.

So, here's the final tally:

• Membership with the Alternative Energy Speculator

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• Weekly updates and recommendations

• Three additional FREE bonus research reports

All for just $499 if you accept this offer today!

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Good investing,

Nick Hodge
Investment Director, the Alternative Energy Speculator

PS: You should know that we just recommended these stocks to our current Alternative Energy Speculator members, and each of them stand to make a fortune. So each day that you wait to join them is more money left on the table.

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