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The solar stocks used to be leveraged energy companies. The sell-off after the energy bubble popped was as bad as it could get, and now many of these companies look like value stocks. The...
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Shares in American Superconductor Corp. (NASDAQ: AMSC) have been taking a beating since early April. The company’s largest customer, China’s Sinovel, has refused to pay for $56 million in wind...
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A Goldman Sachs analyst has raised the coal sector from ‘Neutral’ to ‘Attractive’ this morning. The big gainer was Patriot Coal Corp. (NYSE: PCX) which was raised from ‘neutral’ to...
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American Water Works Company, Inc. (NYSE: AWK) keeps delivering and delivering. This is one of our top ten stocks to own for the next decade and we have been on record that this is one of the go-to...
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France’s government-controlled nuclear power behemoth, Areva SA (OTC: ARVCY), will not renew the contract of CEO Anne Lauvergeon, aka “Atomic Anne,” when it expires at the end of June. Her...
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Solar PV makers had a good first quarter in the US. A report from GTM Research for the Solar Energy Industry Association concludes the US solar PV installation grew by 66% over the first quarter of...
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The U.S. Department of Energy has conditionally committed another $2 billion in loan guarantees for construction of two concentrated solar power (CSP) projects in southern California. With all of...
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Joining Germany and Italy in their efforts to slow down government spending, the United Kingdom has lowered its subsidies for solar power installations, both large and small. Large, utility-scale...
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The utilities sector had been performing incredibly. We recently highlighted the strong performance seen this year and over the last year with many of these names up 20% to 30% along with the...
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The German government’s decision to abandon nuclear power generation by 2022 briefly put a little wind in the sails of alt energy sources like solar and wind. Now, however, Chancellor Angela Merkel...
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Clean energy funds first sprung up in about 2005, with the PowerShares WilderHill Clean Energy Fund (NYSE: PBW). Others have followed, but for the most part these funds have fairly low assets under...
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Today’s alt-energy news focuses on a change to Germany’s plans to cut back on subsidies for solar projects. Germany has had the most liberal incentive program of any country for solar PV...
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When the going gets tough, the tough often play defense — out of risky assets and into those assets that offer more security and some dividend upside. One choice is utilities, where investments are...
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Today’s alternative energy news is solar, solar, solar…. We have an acquisition in the solar PV project development business. A lawsuit has been filed in California to halt the construction of a...
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Today’s alternative energy news keys off of another acquisition in the increasingly competitive smart grid area. What is more important is that the dollars at stake here are literally billions...
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