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One sector that is not falling in response to the downgrade of US debt is the solar PV industry. It is tanking on its own. Bellwether stock First Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) has fallen below $100/share...
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Three major solar PV companies reported earnings after markets closed yesterday, and the final score does not look promising for the solar PV makers. First Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) and MEMC...
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The government of China has just authorized what amounts to a feed-in tariff on the country’s grid operators, who will have to pay $0.16- $0.18/kWh to solar PV developers which supply power to the...
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After markets closed yesterday, solar PV maker SunPower Corp. (NASDAQ: SPWRA) released a preliminary report for its second quarter and the news was not pretty. SunPower has been a high-flyer in the...
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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...
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Chinese solar PV makers are taking a few more lumps today as investors continue to shy away from a sector that has been damaged by low demand forecasts and accounting issues at several of the larger...
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Predictions that oversupply of solar PV modules will push down prices and margins in 2011 apparently have no impact on decisions to continue building additional manufacturing capacity. Wafer makers...
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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...
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Solar PV makers are facing a tough second half of 2011. Forecast supply is expected to exceed demand, and virtually every solar supplier is seeing its stock price head south. A few companies have...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Today’s alt-energy news focuses on a change to Germany’s plans to cut back on subsidies for solar projects. Germany has had the most liberal incentive program of any country for solar PV...
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The oversupply of solar PV panels at the beginning of the year is slowly being wound down, but nearly every solar PV maker is also expanding manufacturing capacity in anticipation of increased...
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Today’s alternative energy news is dominated by the German government’s decision to phase out nuclear power generation in the country. If the decision holds up, it could be very good news for the...
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