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Solar PV Growth Stalled in 2012

Posted: February 21, 2013 at 12:15 pm

For the first time in a decade, global solar photovoltaic (PV) demand grew by less than 10%. Installations totaled 29,000 megawatts of solar PV in 2012, up just 5% from ...
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Solar Saga Continues Downward Spiral (STP, TSL, SOL, FSLR, SPWR, LDK, JASO, YGE)

Posted: May 23, 2012 at 12:52 pm

The string of losses in the solar PV industry is really not news any longer. Stock prices have been hit hard by collapsing panel prices and vanishing margins. Today is ...
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GE Challenges First Solar (GE, FSLR, STP, JASO)

Posted: October 14, 2011 at 1:27 pm

Last April General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) announced that it would build a thin-film solar plant with a capacity of 400 megawatts of annual production, but it did not specify where the ...
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Can Insider Buying Save Solar & Alt-Energy? (FSLR, WFR, LDK, JASO, ADM, AMSC, WPRT, GTAT)

Posted: August 25, 2011 at 11:01 am

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 ...
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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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Chinese Government Gives Solar a Boost (JASO, JKS, LDK, TSL, STP, YGE, TAN)

Posted: August 2, 2011 at 9:06 am

The government of China has just authorized what amounts to a feed-in tariff on the country's grid operators, who will have to pay $0.16- $0.18/kWh to solar PV developers which ...
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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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If All Major Solar Companies Announce Share Buybacks… (LDK, JKS, SOLR, STP, JASO, TSL)

Posted: June 27, 2011 at 12:02 pm

Solar PV makers are facing a tough second half of 2011. Forecast supply is expected to exceed demand, and virtually every solar supplier is seeing its stock price head south. ...
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Solar Stock Slide… From Leveraged Energy to Value to Something Else (FSLR, JASO, ENER, LDK, SPWRA, YGE, TSL, STP, RNWEF, SATC, TOT, TAN)

Posted: June 22, 2011 at 10:58 am

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 ...
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Alt-Energy Watch: Grid Parity, or M&A, Coming for Solar (LDK, FSLR, JKS, TAN, SPWRA, TOT)

Posted: June 13, 2011 at 1:19 pm

Last week we noted that parity pricing for solar PV generation was approaching much more quickly than anticipated.  Usually called "grid parity," the term refers to the day when the ...
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Alt-Energy Watch: England Cuts Solar Subsidies (FSLR, TSL, JASO)

Posted: June 10, 2011 at 12:04 pm

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 projects ...
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Alt-Energy Watch: Solar Mergers Begin, Saudi Solar, Solar Lawsuits (WFR, SPWRA, TOT, FSLR, TAN)

Posted: June 3, 2011 at 11:25 am

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 ...
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Solar Survivors As Cost/Megawatt Drops (FSLR, JASO, STP, TSL, JKS, SPWRA, TOT)

Posted: June 1, 2011 at 12:06 pm

The oversupply of solar PV panels at the beginning of the year is slowly being wound down, but nearly every solar PV maker is also expanding manufacturing capacity in anticipation ...
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Alt-Energy Watch: Germany Phases Out Nukes Versus Solar PV Prices Falling (UEC, URG, URZ, URRE, GE, ARVCY, JASO, FSLR, LDK, STP, YGE, TSL, TAN)

Posted: May 31, 2011 at 12:11 pm

Today's alternative energy news is dominated by the German government's decision to phase out nuclear power generation in the country. If the decision holds up, it could be very good ...
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Alternative Energy Watch: Solar Woes; Killing Ethanol; Smartphones Invade Smart Grid (CSIQ, YGE, QCLSF, ADM, VLO, PEIX, AVRW, GOOG, AAPL, CSCO, INTC)

Posted: May 12, 2011 at 12:20 pm

Today's alternative energy news starts off with more lukewarm news from solar panel makers and follows with the latest on pricing for ethanol. We also take a look at how ...
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