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The last couple of days have generated some interesting news on the green energy front. Today’s release of the Department of Energy’s report on wind power generation may be the biggest, but here...
SolarWorld AG may not have a primary market listing in the United States, but the German solar power systems outfit often is considered a key player in the solar sector. Now the German outfit is...
The past year and a half have been murder on solar PV makers. Share prices have fallen as much as 80% due to oversupply. Short interest in the solar stocks would seem to be tempered by a conclusion...
SunPower Corp. (NASDAQ: SPWR) reported second quarter adjusted EPS of $0.08 and $595.9 million in revenue after the markets closed today. The company posted an EPS loss of -$0.19 for the same period...
MEMC Electronic Materials Inc. (NYSE: WFR) reported second-quarter adjusted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.14 and $933.4 million in revenue before markets opened today. EPS for the same period a year...
Short interest data is out from the July 13 settlement date. There were a few big changes with some key solar stocks over the June 29 settlement date. We have taken a look at most of the major solar...
Following the lead of several US solar panel makers, European solar makers are set to launch a complaint with the European Commission accusing China’s solar panel makers of selling solar PV cells...
China’s Ministry of Commerce will begin an antidumping investigation into imports of U.S.-made and Korean-made polysilicon, the stuff that is used to make crystalline solar cells. The investigation...
Shares of First Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) are up about 8% in the early afternoon on the company’s announcement that it has now installed another 100 megawatts of solar panels at its Agua Caliente...
The Chinese government has increased its planned installation of solar energy projects by 2015 from 5,000 megawatts to 21,000 megawatts. And at least one analyst expects the total to climb to more...
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...
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...
The solar PV industry just got a little bright. The government of Japan has approved a new feed-in tariff plan for the country that will pay developers of solar energy generation a princely...
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...