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:…
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 unsubsidized cost…
Clean energy funds first sprung up in about 2005, with the PowerShares WilderHill Clean Energy Fund (NYSE: PBW). Others have followed, but for the most part these funds have fairly low assets…
In a continuing quest to poke its nose into all things alternative, General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) has made an investment in solar thermal developer eSolar, Inc. The amount of the investment…
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 of a…
