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Investors would much rather see insiders of companies buying up stock rather than selling it. That is particularly true in a stocks like MEMC Electronic Materials Inc. (NYSE: WFR) where the...
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Three solar PV companies reported earnings after the markets closed yesterday, and both delivered decent earnings along with cautions about the rest of the year. SunPower Crop. (NASDAQ:SPWRA)...
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PetroAlgae Inc. has just filed to come public via an initial public offering. While terms were not disclosed, the filing is for up to $200 million in common stock. The problem is that this is...
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A123 Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: AONE) was supposed to be a hot IPO in the hot sector of lithium-ion batteries and systems. Unfortunately, the earnings reaction isn’t so hot. The revenue growth did...
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The ever-entertaining solar PV sector provides more than its share of fun today. First, Solarfun Power Holdings Co. Ltd. (NASDAQ:SOLF), a Chinese solar PV company making crystalline wafers, cells,...
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Solar power is great, unless you make the equipment behind all the solar power. The insatiable and endless growth in demand for solar panels and materials used to make them has posed an investor...
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The corn ethanol industry in the US has received some $41 billion in federal subsidies since 1980. This year alone, federal subsidies are expected to total about $7.6 billion. As the federal budget...
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MEMC Electronic Materials, Inc. (NYSE: WFR) is one of those companies which seems to be just stuck between a rock and a hard place. Tonight’s earnings will only reflect that further. The...
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When President Obama took office he said that one of his priorities as to devise a US energy policy that would reduce the country’s dependence on imported oil and launch the US on a path to...
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Those who worked to refute the huge IPCC 2007 study on global warming were wrong, perhaps. They had accused scientists of hyping their data, claims which have only recently been refuted. However,...
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GM’s Chevrolet division will start to sell the electric Volt model later this year but will produce only about 10,000 models between then and the end of 2011. Nissan will launch its Leaf electric...
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Under section 1603 of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, commercial renewable power projects were allowed to get direct federal grant instead of taking either a production tax credit...
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While there are a lot of small companies vying for market share in the rapidly growing alternative energy sphere, they’re not the only players in the game. Two established players reported earnings...
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There was a time, not so long ago, when thin-film solar PV makers like Applied Materials Inc. (NASDAQ:AMAT) and First Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ:FSLR) had a decisive cost advantage over crystalline...
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Investing in global Lithium demand trends just became much easier. An ETF is coming out this week called the Global X Lithium ETF. It is not a commodity fund but it does track the components of the...
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