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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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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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JA Solar CFO Shuffle… More Worries? (JASO, TSL, APWR)

Posted: July 13, 2011 at 9:24 am

Shares of JA Solar Holdings Co., Ltd. (NASDAQ: JASO) fell more than -8% on July 6th and since that day have lost a total of -20%. The reason for the ...
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Alt Energy Watch: Solar Venture Funding Steady in Second Quarter

Posted: July 6, 2011 at 10:51 am

The projected oversupply of solar PV modules for 2011 and into 2012 has chilled some investors enthusiasm for the solar sector. But one area of the solar world that still ...
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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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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: US Solar Grows, But Not Fast Enough (FSLR, SPWRA, LDK, STP, JASO, TSL, TAN, KWT)

Posted: June 16, 2011 at 10:19 am

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 ...
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Solar on the Move, When Good News Challenges Bad News (SOLR, SPWRA, TOT, FSLR, LDK, JASO, AMAT, TAN)

Posted: June 14, 2011 at 11:09 am

Solar equipment maker GT Solar International Inc. (NASDAQ: SOLR) has raised the forecast for its first fiscal quarter on the strength of more than $700 million in new orders. SunPower ...
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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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