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After weeks of bad news have sent solar stocks further and further into a dark pit, a couple of earnings reports from Suntech Power Holdings Co. Ltd. (NYSE: STP) and Yingli Green Energy Holding Co....
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What will happen to ethanol makers when the US subsidy ends in December, as appears increasingly likely? Bunge Ltd. (NYSE: BG) apparently believes that demand will continue strong, at least in...
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Solar PV makers continue to hammer themselves and their peers with a seemingly never-ending torrent of terrible news. After markets closed yesterday LDK Solar Co., Ltd. (NYSE: LDK) revised guidance...
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This morning’s downgrade by Morgan Stanley of global growth prospects has started the market off on the wrong foot, sending equities down about -3% in the first half hour of trading. Solar shares...
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General Motors (NYSE: GM) will build a Cadillac fueled by electricity. And it will be added to a long line of new electric-powered models that are unlikely to have many buyers. The world’s largest...
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After markets closed yesterday, First Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) announced the resignation of Jens Meyerhoff, president of its utility systems business group, effective September 30th. Meyerhoff...
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Sometimes having the first-mover advantage doesn’t pay off. If Evergreen Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ: ESLR) was not the first pure-play solar stock in America, it was among the first. Now it is filing...
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ReneSola Ltd (NYSE: SOL) admitted on the earnings call that both shipments and realized prices for silicon wafer and modules fell faster than expected in quarter-ending June 30. Contrary to company...
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Solar companies have seen a big bounce from recent lows and it seems as if something may be brewing if the underlying will cooperate. The most significant event in the solar sector this week was...
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Since last April the news from American Superconductor Corp. (NASDAQ: AMSC) has been uniformly awful. The company’s largest customer refused to pay for shipments received in the second half of 2010...
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One sector that is not falling in response to the downgrade of US debt is the solar PV industry. It is tanking on its own. Bellwether stock First Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) has fallen below $100/share...
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Three major solar PV companies reported earnings after markets closed yesterday, and the final score does not look promising for the solar PV makers. First Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) and MEMC...
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If you believe that an energy policy in the United States can happen in the coming years, there is almost no way that natural gas can be ignored. The massive shale plays, the nat-gas acquisitions...
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The solar sector is getting off to a bad start for earnings season as the economy softens and as the market keeps hurting investors. We have two key solar issues coming out with earnings this...
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The government of China has just authorized what amounts to a feed-in tariff on the country’s grid operators, who will have to pay $0.16- $0.18/kWh to solar PV developers which supply power to the...
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