Big money’s renewable energy bets

Like a lot of people, the head of Calpers’ environmental fund is hot on one particular renewable energy technology.

“When I get back, the one thing I’m going to talk about most is the incredible focus on ethanol,” Winston Hickox, a manager at the nation’s largest public pension fund, said Thursday at a New York conference. “The ease of transition to another liquid fuel that is just beginning to be developed, particularly cellulosic ethanol.”