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More Disaster in Solar Sector (LDK, JASO, FSLR, SPWRA, TSL, SOL, CSIQ, STP, ESLR, TAN)

Posted: August 19, 2011 at 8:32 am

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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Solar Stocks Bloodied Again (JASO, TSL, SOL, FSLR, CSIQ, STP, TAN)

Posted: August 18, 2011 at 10:39 am

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 ...
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First Solar Shares Skid on Executive’s Departure (FSLR, ESLR, GE, NEE, TAN)

Posted: August 17, 2011 at 10:00 am

After markets closed yesterday, First Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) announced the resignation of Jens Meyerhoff, president of its utility systems business group, effective September 30th. Meyerhoff joined First Solar in ...
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Has the Solar Sector’s Fate Changed? (FSLR, SPWRA, TSL, LDK, JASO, SOL, WFR, YGE, TAN, KWT)

Posted: August 12, 2011 at 12:39 pm

Solar companies have seen a big bounce from recent lows and it seems as if something may be brewing if the underlying will cooperate.  The most significant event in the ...
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Solar’s Fallen Angels: China to Credit to Margins (FSLR, JASO, TSL, JKS, LDK, STP, YGE, APWR)

Posted: August 8, 2011 at 11:17 am

One sector that is not falling in response to the downgrade of US debt is the solar PV industry. It is tanking on its own. Bellwether stock First Solar Inc. ...
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First Solar, The Ultimate Sector Solar Drag Rather Than Savior (FSLR, WFR, SOLR, JASO, JKS, LDK, TSL, STP, YGE, SPWRA, TOT, ESLR, ENER, ASTI, TAN)

Posted: August 5, 2011 at 10:40 am

Three major solar PV companies reported earnings after markets closed yesterday, and the final score does not look promising for the solar PV makers. First Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) and ...
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SunPower Clouds Outlook for Solar (SPWRA, TOT, FSLR, STP)

Posted: July 26, 2011 at 8:55 am

After markets closed yesterday, solar PV maker SunPower Corp. (NASDAQ: SPWRA) released a preliminary report for its second quarter and the news was not pretty. SunPower has been a high-flyer ...
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First Solar: Can It Save the Solar Sector? (FSLR, CSIQ, LDK, TSL, TAN, ICLN, PBW, PBD, PZD, KWT)

Posted: July 25, 2011 at 9:36 am

Earnings from global leader First Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) are due tomorrow, and while EPS estimates for the company have fallen from just over $2/share to $0.92/share in the past ...
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Scandals Keep Hitting Solar & China (LDK, JASO, TSL, APWR, STP, YGE, JKS, FSLR, SPWRA)

Posted: July 18, 2011 at 12:42 pm

Shares of LDK Solar Co. Inc. (NYSE: LDK) are getting hit again today following the company's announcement that a member of its board of directors who was also the head ...
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Accounting Troubles, Weak Demand Stifle China’s Solar Juggernaut (JASO, TSL, STP, YGE, LDK, FSLR, TAN)

Posted: July 14, 2011 at 2:48 pm

Chinese solar PV makers are taking a few more lumps today as investors continue to shy away from a sector that has been damaged by low demand forecasts and accounting ...
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Alt-Energy Watch: Italian, Chinese Solar PV Firms Expanding in the Face of Oversupply (FSLR, GE, JASO, STP, TSL, DQ, WFR, ENLAY, SHCAY, STM)

Posted: July 11, 2011 at 9:32 am

Predictions that oversupply of solar PV modules will push down prices and margins in 2011 apparently have no impact on decisions to continue building additional manufacturing capacity. Wafer makers in ...
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Alt Energy Watch: US Lends Funds for Cellulosic Ethanol Plant (FSLR, SPWRA, USU, ADM, VLO)

Posted: July 7, 2011 at 10:13 am

The US Department of Energy has announced that it will offer a loan guarantee for $105 million to expand an Iowa plant that makes ethanol from the cellulosic waste ...
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Alt-Energy Watch: Another Believer in Solar Consolidation (FSLR, STP, YGE, TSL, SPWRA, SHCAY)

Posted: July 5, 2011 at 4:25 pm

As part of last week's story on stock buybacks in the solar PV industry, we opined that a consolidation in the solar industry is looking to take shape.  Acquisitions and ...
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The Solar Consolidation Phase May Just Be Starting (JASO, LDK, JKS, SPWRA, TOT, RSOL, WFR, FSLR, ESLR, ENER, TAN)

Posted: July 1, 2011 at 10:38 am

The merger and consolidation phase in solar may be getting underway.  Solar PV maker JA Solar Holdings, Co., Ltd. (NASDAQ: JASO) has reached an agreement to purchase privately held Silver ...
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DOE Saves the Day for First Solar, Maybe Others Too (FSLR, SPWRA, TAN)

Posted: June 30, 2011 at 11:12 am

First Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) has received loan guarantees from the US Department of Energy totaling $4.5 billion for the construction of three solar projects in the southern California that ...
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