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First Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) is caught somewhere between a rock and a hard place.  The solar player’s cost of production is above what the prevailing prices are and there are performance issues...
Axiom Capital’s Gordon Johnson is remaining negative on First Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) as his comments made on CNBC were still very negative.  Johnson has been very vocal against the company for...
First Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) had been trying to recover from its lows but its shares have stalled in recent days.  Now comes news that the firm has hired Georges Antoun as the Chief Operating...
Ethanol producer Pacific Ethanol Inc. (NASDAQ: PEIX) is watching investors crush the company’s stock following this morning’s announcement of a secondary offering of 28 million units at a price...
Chemical and biofuels maker Gevo Inc. (NASDAQ: GEVO) announced this morning that it “intends to offer and sell, subject to market and other conditions, shares of its common stock and convertible...
Westport Innovations Inc. (NASDAQ: WPRT) is surging on news this morning that it has signed a second deal with General Motors Co. (NYSE: GM) for the company’s compressed natural gas engines for...
At last week’s Rio+20 conference in Brazil, a representative of Standard & Poor’s Latin American office told a panel on sustainable development that “banks and utilities are unlikeloy to...
It’s hard to say that things got worse for solar panel makers today, but it’s easy to say that things did not get better. LDK Solar Co. Ltd. (NYSE: LDK) reported results the first quarter today...
Tesla Motors Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA) is kicking off sales of its new Model S sedan this month, and the company wants to make it easier for buyers to drive one off the lot. To that end, the company...
First Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) has been battered and left for dead.  Interestingly enough, the latest news flow has not been as bad and with shares above $14.50 the recovery is around 25% from its...
Biofuels maker Gevo Inc. (NASDAQ: GEVO) is seeing its share price skyrocket today following a court ruling that the company probably did not infringe on a competitor’s patents. Gevo is now free to...
Chinese solar PV maker JinkoSolar Holding Co. Ltd. (NYSE: JKS) reported results for the company’s first fiscal quarter today, and the results were not pretty. The company, once positioned as a...
Huntington Asset Advisors has announced the launch of an actively managed exchange-traded fund via Huntington Strategy Shares called the Huntington EcoLogical Strategy Shares ETF (HECO).  This is...
Shares of several of the solar PV makers are trading higher today, most likely due to today’s options expirations. Shares of Trina Solar Ltd. (NYSE: TSL) are up more than 7% as are shares of...
Automaker Ford Motor Co. (NYSE: F) today released its annual sustainability report, claiming a 22% reduction in energy used to build cars over the past 6 years and a plan to cut another 25% over the...