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We have two small capital raises seen this morning in two alternative energy players.  These are also classified as cult stocks due to their small size and trading history.  Active Power, Inc....
First Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) is out with earnings today, and there is nothing great and nothing awful to report in here.  For its fourth quarter, revenues were $641.3 million, up from $480.9...
This will not be the first time you have heard this statement from 24/7 Wall St…  “Solar stocks may be nothing more than leveraged bets that react to sudden price moves in the price of crude...
The latest stimulus program news out of Washington is astonishing for its lack of ambition. President Obama announced $8.3 billion in loan guarantees which will support a plan to build the first...
SunPower Corp. (NASDAQ: SPWRA) has made what may be one of the first decent sized mergers in the solar sector.  The company agreed to acquire SunRay Renewable Energy in Malta for $277 million.  The...
Since the beginning of the year, Brazil’s ethanol industry has generated more than its share of news. Today brings the announcement of a joint venture between Royal Dutch Shell (RDS-A) and Cosan...
Tesla Motors, Inc. has finally filed for an initial public offering.  The maker of the electric roadster and electric sedan filed to sell up to $100 million in common stock in an IPO after the close...
The use of wind power in America rose 39% last year according to a report from American Wind Energy Association cited in The New York Times. “The amount of capacity added last year, 9,900...
Toward the end of 2008 (and even sooner), ethanol may have seemed like a fad that came and went.  Then came the dull year of 2009 that seemed as though it would yield little.  Yet ethanol stocks...
This has already been delayed and rumored, but it appears that oil magnate T. Boone Pickens has given up on his northern Texas Pampa Wind Farm power project.  The economics do not work.  The deal...
By Paul Ausick of 24/7 Wall St. Until December 31, 2009, biodiesel makers enjoyed a tax credit of $1/gallon on alternative diesel fuel made either from feedstock such as soybeans or camellina or from...
Codexis, Inc. has filed its paperwork with the SEC for an initial public offering.  The company plans to trade under the ticker “CDXS” on NASDAQ.  Credit Suisse and Goldman Sachs are the joint...
If anyone in the solar space could use an order for Christmas, it is MEMC Electronic Materials Inc. (NYSE: WFR).  The company’s SunEdison solar services unit, just received an order from Xcel...
A-Power Energy Generation Systems (NASDAQ: APWR) rose over 10.3% to a yearly high of $20.60 after the Chinese power system manufacturer announced that it signed a deal to supply turbines to a 600...
Early this year most solar stocks traded at multi-year lows. There were concerns that the demand for solar energy installations was being hurt by the recession and that component costs for solar...