An expected 27,000 attendees are spending a few days in Los Angeles at the Solar Power International 2010 conference and exhibit. There are about 1,100 exhibitors, with a few unusual suspects sprinkled in. The…
Predicting oil prices a month from now is a risky business. Predicting oil prices a year from now is close to madness. Perhaps it is fairer to say that believing a prediction for oil…
Another day, another forecast for crude oil demand. Yesterday, OPEC issued its monthly oil report forecasting demand of 85.59 million b/d for the full 2010 calendar year. The cartel also forecast that demand growth…
Is it a jinx to say that a sector has risen too much? Sometimes, but the recent run up in solar shares ahead of earnings season is looking like many key names have much…
Chevron Corp. (NYSE: CVX) is apparently neither immune to international currency issues nor to swings in the oil patch despite oil prices being higher year-over-year. The company has issued a slight earnings warning that…
In yet another sign that the no one knows for sure what’s happening in the world oil market, OPEC has raised its estimate for demand growth for crude oil by 100,000 b/d to 1.1…
General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) is expanding its advanced solar products and services portfolio. The new solar thin film panel, system and inverter products are said to “enhance GE’s ability to provide a complete…
Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) will be one of the major investors in a massive wind farm project on the East Coast. It is hard to see how the search engine company will make money on…
The great dream of America’s energy planners and nightmare of the oil companies and coal producers is that one day the US will have a large scale, economic way to bring electricity to homes…
Crude oil has been on fire and prices were as low as $74 per barrel less than 3 weeks ago before recent highs of $84.00. Generally a rise in the commodity price garners a…
Oil prices came close to $84 today. The cost per barrel has moved up relentlessly for three weeks. It was only two months ago that light crude priced at just above $70 on the…
First Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) has raised its guidance, of a sort. While the company did not give financial guidance it did raise its Megawatt order expectations. The lack of actual finance guidance is…
Shares in JA Solar Holdings Co., Ltd. (NASDAQ: JASO) are up more than 5% this morning on news that the company has signed a contract with the solar division of BP plc (NYSE: BP)…
As wind farms get built closer to where people live, the downsides to the massive installations get a lot more attention. Well, at least from nearby residents, who discover that the giant blades and…
It may seem to be an extremely modest start, but the Interior Department has approved two large-scale solar projects which will be the first ever build on public land. The Imperial Valley Solar Project,…