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Shares of First Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) are down more than 8% in early trading today following a downgrade from Avian to Negative and a report that one of the components in the company’s solar...
More solar makers saw short interest fall more than rise in the latest period. That could indicate that solar stocks are pretty much as low as they can get. One exception might be LDK, which is...
MEMC Electronic Materials Inc. (NYSE: WFR) has had no real good news heading its way in some time. Now we have news of a customer loss, or termination, as its subsidiary MEMC Singapore Pte. Ltd. has...
Admitting that it had overestimated both the market for all-electric vehicles (EVs) and the ability of battery makers to meet consumer requirements, Toyota Motor Corp. (NYSE: TM) announced this...
Chinese solar panel maker Suntech Power Holdings Co. Ltd. (NYSE: STP) announced this morning that it had received a notice from the NYSE that the company has failed to meet the exchange’s criteria...
Ascent Solar Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: ASTI) has priced an underwritten public secondary offering of shares. The solar company is selling 9,166,700 shares of common stock at $1.20 per share. This...
Asked to name top 10 greenest U.S. presidents, most Americans would probably come up with one name at the top of the list but might have a little trouble naming the next 9. Some of the names may be...
Solar panel maker LDK Solar Co. Ltd. (NYSE: LDK) this morning reported a second-quarter net loss of $2.00 per American depository share (ADS) on revenue of $235.4 million. In the same period a year...
Wikimedia commons / Stefan KühnFollowing last year’s disaster at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, Germany said it would abandon nuclear power generation in the country by 2022....
We tracked the short interest in the following North American solar companies: Canadian Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: CSIQ), First Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR), GT Advanced Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: GTAT), MEMC...
Energy stocks were generally higher yesterday as shares reacted positively to China’s latest stimulus package and the expectations for more. Coal stocks did particularly well, but solar stocks also...
Polypore International Inc. (NYSE: PPO), which makes specialized membranes for lithium-ion batteries, has lowered its outlook for the second half of 2012. The company cited “results through July...
The U.S. solar PV market rose sharply in the second quarter of 2012, compared both to the previous quarter and year-over-year. Total solar PV installations in the U.S. during the second quarter...
Solar stocks have fallen so far in the past year and a half that there doesn’t seem to be any further for them to fall. But that’s not the way the stocks are being played. We’ve looked at 10...
Solar maker First Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) will not ship any more modules to the company’s Agua Caliente solar farm project until January 2013. The stoppage is the result of the project being...