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Solarfun Power Holdings Co. Ltd. (NASDAQ: SOLF), a photovoltaic cell and PV module maker in China, is trading higher after the company gave guidance.  The outlook for the third quarter of 2009 is...
Next week is still supposed to mark the initial public offering of what me be a very hot IPO.  Auto electric-battery maker A123 Systems Inc. is tentatively set to launch and begin trading...
General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) is already a large wind power and alternative energy player.  The company’s GE Wind site notes that it already has more than 10,000 worldwide wind turbine...
We previously noted how First Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) had scored on its new CEO.  Robert J. Gillette is coming out of Honeywell International Inc. (NYSE: HON) to take over for founder Michael...
The cloud that is GM may have found a silver lining. GM’s Chevrolet Equinox, which is powered by a pollution-free fuel-cell, passed its one millionth mile in test drives. The firm says that the...
A new report from the China Greentech Initiative, which is made up of several dozen alternative energy companies and government organizations, says that the potential for green technology sales in...
There are many things that help solar power and orders for the sector, but arguably higher energy prices and tax incentives or subsidies probably dwarf the overall economic situation.  There seems...
First Solar (FSLR) today announced that it had signed a contract with the Chinese government that will allow it to build a 2 gigawatt solar power plant in Ordos City, Inner Mongolia, China. The...
First Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) is making a significant management change, right at the top of the company. Mike Ahearn is stepping down as CEO and will be replaced by Robert J. Gillette.  This may...
Beacon Power Corporation (NASDAQ: BCON) has just filed to raise up to $60 million in cash in a mixed securities shelf registration.  The company’s shelf filing will allow it to sell any...
Jefferies has made some key downgrades in the solar sector this morning.  There are few other calls that were upgrades from rival firms, but the downgrade seems to be more front and center as it was...
The government has made a colossal effort since the 1960s to clean the air and America’s lakes and rivers. Most citizens probably thought the the work was remarkably successful. Dead lakes now...
It was a bad sign when T Boone Pickens gave up, at least partially, on building a  mammoth wind farm in Texas. The process was not only going to be expensive; the ability to get the energy from the...
With all the stimulus money in the U.S. supposedly heading toward alternative energy…. with all the boost from Chinese credits for solar…. with all the greenhouse gases and carbon emission...
Zoltek Companies, Inc. (NASDAQ:ZOLT) was a great success story during the boom of energy and alternative energy.  But since that bubble popped, its bubble has burst as well.  Its shares are getting...