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Earth Day is April 22, 2012, which is this Sunday.  Many Americans and many people elsewhere will be thinking about how they can be more green.  Sadly, there are going to be many investors who are...
Prices for solar PV panels have continued to slide this year, dropping to $0.80-$0.85/watt, a decline of -10% on top of the the -50% drop in panel prices last year. Many of the Chinese solar PV panel...
Solar thermal power company BrightSource Energy Inc. today filed a request with the Securities and Exchange Commission to withdraw its Form S-1 registration statement, effectively cancelling the...
First Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) and Exelon Corp. (NYSE: EXC) announced today that the Antelope Valley Solar Ranch One project has received the first installment on a federal loan that could...
Last year the Greek and German governments proposed a solar PV project to be built in Greece that would generate up to 10,000 megawatts of electricity that could then be sold to other European...
German solar panel maker Q-Cells SE, once the largest solar panel maker in the world, has said it will file for insolvency tomorrow following a failed attempt to restructure its debt. A court ruling...
Microinverter maker Enphase Energy Inc. (NASDAQ: ENPH) completed its IPO this morning, issuing 8.97 million shares at an offering price of $6/share. The price is the low end of the pre-IPO range of...
The German government had been expected to cut the country’s solar PV subsidy by 15% in April, and by 2% a month thereafter. PV Magazine is reporting today that following a meeting last night,...
Yesterday’s sugar-coated decision by the US Commerce Department to impose tariffs of up to nearly 5% on Chinese-made solar panels imported into the US has hit the makers hard. One can only imagine...
Solar panel maker LDK Solar Co. Ltd. (NYSE: LDK) has revised its fourth quarter 2011 forecast and announced its guidance for the company’s 2012 fiscal year. The company will announce fourth quarter...
The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) and GTM Research have released their review of the US solar market for 2011. The good news is that new solar installations more than doubled...
The solar sector took a severe beating in 2011 as module prices fell by more than 40%. The bleeding has stopped for now, and most of the solar makers have worked through their inventory problems and...