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Until today, every drop of ethanol used in transportation fuel has been moved by trucks or train cars. This added to the cost of getting ethanol to market and to the amount of total carbon emitted in...
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Ethanol maker VeraSun (VSUNQ) is currently in Chapter 11, and is spreading the suffering to growers because it has stopped buying feedstock (corn) that it can’t pay for. But never fear, help is...
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Canadian solar panel maker Canadian Solar Inc. (NASDAQ:CSIQ) reported earnings this morning before the market opened. Revenue for the third quarter was $252.4 million, higher than expectations of...
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The point that alternative energy companies are being battered in the stock market is no surprise. Yet some of the companies, at least, are performing fairly well and probably deserve better...
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If you wanted help from the oil front, the help you have sought has come and may be a curse. Forget oil close to $150.00 per barrel and forget whatever T. Boone Pickens tells you about the same old...
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Before the market opened this morning, LDK Solar (NYSE:LDK) reported third quarter earnings. The company earned $88.4 million (diluted EPS of $0.77) on revenues of $541.8 million. Analysts were...
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The news on the ethanol front this morning is, shall we say, mixed. First, Pacific Ethanol (NASDAQ:PEIX) announced yesterday that it would increase its non-cash impairment charge for the suspended...
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Energy stocks rose along with the market in its 500+ point rally yesterday, and Clean Energy Fuels (NASDAQ: CLNE) did its part. It actually had a massive beta yesterday as its shares soared nearly...
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One year ago, the share price for Energy Conversion Devices (NASDAQ:ENER) was $29.31. Shares rose to a 52-week high of $83.33, closing yesterday at $38.04. That’s off 52% from the high, but nearly...
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Pacific Ethanol (NASDAQ:PEIX) reported third quarter numbers this morning and any resemblance to VeraSun and Aventine (NYSE:AVR) is purely familial. Pacific had revenue of $184 million, compared with...
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There is a sector downgrade from Deutsche Bank today in the solar sector. Due to the rally from China’s stimulus package, the pre-market rally in stocks and oil prices, and the hopes that the...
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GT Solar International, Inc. (NASDAQ: SOLR) posted strong earnings and mixed guidance, but shares are recovering handily after the report since its stock has been beaten down so much since coming...
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This morning’s earnings report from Archer-Daniels-Midland (NYSE:ADM) offers proof that if a company is going to be in the ethanol business, it had better have a fallback position. ADM blew past...
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The most prominent ethanol energy company in the US, Verasun (VSE), is filing for Chapter 11. Among other things the firm has been pinched by falling oil prices, which make ethanol less attractive,...
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Ethanol stocks have been getting pounded since their IPOs and the sector has lost its luster. Pacific Ethanol Inc. (NASDAQ:PEIX) was the exception for a while as it has Bill Gates as an investor...
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