Applied Materials Announces Share Repurchase Program, Dividend Increase $AMAT

Applied Materials Inc. announced that its Board of Directors hasapproved a 17 percent increase in the quarterly cash dividend to $0.07per share, payable on June 16, 2010 to stockholders of record as of May26, 2010. Previously, the quarterly cash dividend was $0.06per share. Applied’s Board also approved a new stock repurchase programauthorizing up to $2 [...]

Sen. Bernie Sanders Proposes Legislation to Increase Solar PV Systems

Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), chairman of the Senate’s green jobs subcommittee, has introduced the 10 Million Solar Roofs and 10 Million Gallons of Solar Water Heating Act of 2010to encourage the installation of 10 million solar systems on therooftops of homes and businesses over the next decade along with anincrease in solar hot water capacity [...]

Solar Power: Save Money, Increase Home Value

I have been going over some of the bills from the last few years. My utility company, Central Hudson Gas and Electric has been increasingthe cost of electricity by 9% annually. Nine percent per year seems like quite a bit, especially sinceinflation has been running around two to three percent. The increasesof fuel costs and energy [...]

Coral-shaped Nanomaterials Increase Solar Cell Efficiency

Inan effort to enhance the efficiency of solar panels Chinese researchershave proposed unique coral-shaped nanomaterials that can be made fromporous materials such as tin oxide. However, changing the structure andmorphology of the materials is difficult using current preparationmethods. Researchers at the Chinese Academy ofSciences, Hefei, have developed tin oxide nanomaterials shaped likecorals, via a “swallowing [...]

Profit, Demand Increase at Solarfun (SOLF)

Solarfun Power (SOLF) got back in the black in a big way, reportinga Q3 EPS of $0.37 this morning, smashing analyst estimates of just.14/share. Revenues were down over the year ago quarter but continueto improve sequentially at $144 million. The company reported better diversity in the quarter with the newCzech solar market contributing 8% of [...]

Why an economic recovery will increase solar panels costs

As the world economies begin their slow recovery fromthe credit crunch, what does this mean for a solar panel industry in itsinfancy? Stuart Lovatt from Heat my Home says, “Over thelast 5 years we have seen solar manufacturing and installations costs increase,due to rising cost of energy for manufacture, resources, materials andmanufacturing costs generally is [...]

SolarPA achieves 12 percent solar efficiency increase with innovative nano spin-on

SolarPA has developed a process of using nanocoatings utilizing 3-7 nmproprietary nanomaterials to increase the efficiency of solar cells byas much as 12 percent. Previously, the start-up had achieved a10 percent increase in efficiency on both crystalline and thin-filmsolar cells using an electrospinning process. New achievements havedemonstrated a 12 percent increase in efficiency using a [...]

SolarWorld Sees 5% Increase in Sales

After seeing a sharp fall in earnings at the end of 2008, Germany’s SolarWorld found a surer footing in the first quarter of this year, and says it will stick to its growth strategy focused on the US and European markets. Sales rose by 5.2% in the first quarter to €176.3m ($239m) compared with the [...]

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