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…
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 would add…
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…
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 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 the buzz around…
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 Corp. (NASDAQ:…
