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The state of California has mandated that a third of its electricity come from renewable sources by the end of the decade. This has caused something of a boomlet in solar thermal and solar...
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Oil may still be above $80.00, but solar stocks are on skid row. The dollar/euro is heading the wrong way, new government uncertainty growing louder, and a concern over all major government...
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Advanced Battery Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: ABAT) is taking a small hit this morning on news that it is raising capital. The developer of rechargeable polymer lithium-ion batteries and electric...
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GM (NYSE: GM) says the miles-per-gallon equivalent that its new Chevy Volt will get depends on how it is driven. The No.1 US car company says “The Volt is a complex vehicle that is incredibly easy...
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There are several big knocks on the development of renewable energy solutions. The first, of course, is cost. The second is intermittency, that is the inability of wind or solar generation to work...
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Futurists are an odd lot. Generally, they are authors, scientists, consultants and economists. What many people don’t know is that investors follow this philosophy as well. Their goal is to...
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Oil is off the peak again, the markets went soft, and governments are going to have to review spending on all fronts… including most subsidies. All of this aligns rather poorly for the solar...
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General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) is furthering its ambitions to promote cleaner energy and its Ecomagination initiative, although this is actually a company-wide issue. GE has announced that it will...
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Is it ‘prime’ water or ‘cousin’ water? Either way, so far it is hot water. Primo Water Corporation (NASDAQ: PRMW) priced an initial public offering of 8,333,333 shares of common stock at...
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JinkoSolar Holding Co., Ltd. (NYSE: JKS) has reported an earnings blowout. The Chinese solar wafer producer reported earnings of $1.75 EPS as revenue grew more than 200% to $215 million; Thomson...
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Developing a renewable energy project depends at least equally on government backing as much as anything else. Government-guaranteed loans, tax incentives, regulations, and direct subsidies are all...
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First Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) looked like a decent report, but there is a sell-the-news reaction taking place in the after-hours trading session. The solar giant posted 16% higher earnings of...
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In March 2008, an analyst at Goldman Sachs predicted that the price of crude would see a “super spike” all the way to $200 per barrel. At the time, a barrel of crude cost just under $100, but had...
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Global sales of all types of electric-powered vehicles is expected to be under 1 million units of the estimated total of 44.7 million units that will be sold in 2010. By 2020, nearly 71 million new...
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It is a lengthy way to say that electronic batteries can nearly be perpetual motion machines. “Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne and IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced a major research initiative,...
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