Stock prices for the solar PV makers have fallen by -40% to -80% in the past 12 months, with the bulk of the crash occurring since May. The collapse is due to…
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 to the $303…
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.…
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…
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 straight downward…
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…
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 May 2006…
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 solar sector…
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 MEMC Electronic…
The solar sector is getting off to a bad start for earnings season as the economy softens and as the market keeps hurting investors. We have two key solar issues coming out…
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 supply power…
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 three months,…
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 issues at…
Today is not a good-news day in the alternative energy sector. American Superconductor Corp. (NASDAQ: AMSC) has said that it will restate revenues for the last two calendar quarters of 2010, resulting…
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 Age Holdings…
