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Shares of LDK Solar Co. Inc. (NYSE: LDK) are getting hit again today following the company’s announcement that a member of its board of directors who was also the head of its audit committee has...
These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Monday morning. Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE: ALU) Maintained Underperform but raised...
The US Department of Energy has announced that it will offer a loan guarantee for $105 million to expand an Iowa plant that makes ethanol from the cellulosic waste matter, called stover, of corn...
As part of last week’s story on stock buybacks in the solar PV industry, we opined that a consolidation in the solar industry is looking to take shape.  Acquisitions and mergers have already...
The merger and consolidation phase in solar may be getting underway.  Solar PV maker JA Solar Holdings, Co., Ltd. (NASDAQ: JASO) has reached an agreement to purchase privately held Silver Age...
First Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) has received loan guarantees from the US Department of Energy totaling $4.5 billion for the construction of three solar projects in the southern California that would...
The solar stocks used to be leveraged energy companies.  The sell-off after the energy bubble popped was as bad as it could get, and now many of these companies look like value stocks.  The...
These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Tuesday morning. Amerisafe, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMSF) Cut to Underperform as Bear of the...
Solar PV makers had a good first quarter in the US. A report from GTM Research for the Solar Energy Industry Association concludes the US solar PV installation grew by 66% over the first quarter of...
Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Wednesday morning.  We are tracking news and moves in shares of Brietburn Energy Partners, Inc. (NASDAQ: BBEP), Sunpower...
Solar equipment maker GT Solar International Inc. (NASDAQ: SOLR) has raised the forecast for its first fiscal quarter on the strength of more than $700 million in new orders. SunPower Corp. (NASDAQ:...
These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Tuesday morning. Boingo Wireless, Inc. (NASDAQ: WIFI) Started as Outperform at...
Last week we noted that parity pricing for solar PV generation was approaching much more quickly than anticipated.  Usually called “grid parity,” the term refers to the day when the unsubsidized...
The German government’s decision to abandon nuclear power generation by 2022 briefly put a little wind in the sails of alt energy sources like solar and wind. Now, however, Chancellor Angela Merkel...
Clean energy funds first sprung up in about 2005, with the PowerShares WilderHill Clean Energy Fund (NYSE: PBW). Others have followed, but for the most part these funds have fairly low assets under...