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First Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) has laid out its 2010 financial guidance, and it announced plans to add eight production lines at its manufacturing center in Kulim, Malaysia starting production in...
The solar energy sector has been beaten down for the better part of the last year. There have been concerns about over-supply of product and low demand because of the economy. JA Solar (NASDAQ:JASO)...
It is not entirely clear that consumers want plug-in electric cars, but that is not keeping Toyota (NYSE:TM) from marketing one, probably in two years. Hybrids are less expensive and get up to 50...
The second half of November showed somewhat of a mixed bag in short selling activity in the universe of our actively traded and more prominent solar stocks.  We saw a gain in short selling many...
First Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) has news on the wires this morning that the company and Enbridge Inc. (NYSE: ENB) have entered into an expanded agreement on the Sarnia Solar Project from 20...
If you thought you might not see another green energy or less-dirty energy exchange traded-fund, there is a new ETF for you.  First Trust Advisors is launching the First Trust NASDAQ Clean Edge...
American Superconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: AMSC) is one of the (almost) cult stocks out there in the field of alternative energy and green energy as its has proprietary megawatt-scale wind turbine...
New research indicates that transportation companies will benefit the most from the government’s huge stimulus investment in infrastructure. According to a new ChangeWave survey of 313 people who...
Applied Materials Inc. (NASDAQ: AMAT) is on deck for earnings this afternoon right after the market closes. The chip equipment giant, and relatively new solar player, is the king of its sector to...
Earnings season has wound down now with over 85% of the S&P 500 Index having reported.  Still, there are some key companies posting their quarterly results and some companies were screened out...
Chinese interests and private capital will build a huge wind farm in West Texas. China-based wind turbine firm A-Power Energy Generation Systems (NASDAQ:APWR) will lead the project. It will cost as...
We have long said that this Q3 period was likely to separate the men from the boys in the solar sector.  Unfortunately, none of the men looked stronger than the boys.  Tonight’s earnings report...
We are seeing at least some significant moves from the company’s who have announced that they are grant recipients under part of the $3.4 billion Smart Grid pledge from the Obama administration...
Wind energy is supposed to be one of the key puzzle pieces in the quest to get off the dependence of foreign energy sources.  Yet a fairly disturbing story from the Daily Camera in Boulder. Colorado...
Applied Materials, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMAT) appears to not be slowing down on its solar ambitions, or at least not as much as we might have all guessed about six months ago when new expansions were being...