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Despite the debacle with a $535 million loan guarantee to now-bankrupt Solyndra, the US Department of Energy is pressing ahead with loan guarantees to solar projects ahead of tomorrow’s deadline....
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Last June Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) created a $280 million fund with SolarCity to finance residential solar projects. Yesterday the world’s search engine giant created a $75 million fund with...
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Solar PV maker First Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) failed to meet a deadline in its application for a federal loan guarantee amounting to $1.9 billion for its Topaz solar farm project. The project was...
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ReneSola Ltd. (NYSE: SOL) is a solar stock that has beaten up so bad that it could be screened out as a value stock. Just yesterday we gave a list of new value stocks in the solar sector, but we...
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The solar PV industry has taken a beating since the beginning of the year, when investors finally got the message that manufacturing capacity was outstripping demand. Reductions to government...
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As the cost for crystalline solar PV panels falls toward the magic number of $1/watt, the cost of building a utility scale solar plant approaches the cost of building an equally sized wind farm. Add...
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The US Department of Energy has issued a conditional commitment for a partial guarantee of a $344 million loan for solar PV installer SolarCity. The company will install rooftop solar PV systems on...
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The China Development Bank has provided the country’s largest polysilicon maker with two new credit facilities totalling $713 million. GCL-Poly Energy Holdings Ltd. (OTC: GCPEF) can add that total...
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The month of August was hard on US solar makers. Evergreen Solar closed its doors a few weeks ago, followed by privately held and Intel Corp.-supported (NASDAQ: INTC) SpectraWatt, Inc. a few days...
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About 10 days ago, LDK Solar Co. Ltd. (NYSE: LDK) lowered its guidance for the second quarter, and this morning the bad news became official. If anything, it’s even worse than expected. Revenue for...
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The US solar industry needs some good news. Rising capacity, falling margins, and weakening economic conditions in developed countries have taken a heavy toll on US makers’ share prices since the...
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While corporate insiders sell shares for all sorts of reasons, there is usually just one reason for insiders to buy: they think the stock price will rise. That belief typically lights a fire under...
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After weeks of bad news have sent solar stocks further and further into a dark pit, a couple of earnings reports from Suntech Power Holdings Co. Ltd. (NYSE: STP) and Yingli Green Energy Holding Co....
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Solar PV makers continue to hammer themselves and their peers with a seemingly never-ending torrent of terrible news. After markets closed yesterday LDK Solar Co., Ltd. (NYSE: LDK) revised guidance...
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This morning’s downgrade by Morgan Stanley of global growth prospects has started the market off on the wrong foot, sending equities down about -3% in the first half hour of trading. Solar shares...
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