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Selling the Story of Solar
“Solar advocacy goal-setting…” This was the topic for the 1/4/12 of #SolarChat. For our first #SolarChat of the new year, representatives from the Solar Energy Industries Association joined us as guest panelists as we discussed action items the solar community can implement in 2012 to promote our cause. One thing was clear during this hour-long [...]
Hedge Funds Increase Green Stocks Short Selling
Bloomberg reports that short selling in green stocks has been increasing and is nearlyfour times the short selling in the S&P. In November, 17% of shares in the 35 stocks that make up the Wilderhill New Energy Index are soldshort, up from 16% last month and 15% in September. That compares withthe 4.4% short ratio [...]
9 Tips For Selling Solar Power Systems
Early on the people who bought solar energy systems were either live-off-the-land environmentalists, survivalists, rightwing extremists , or engineers & hobbyists. That has changed. Solar electricity systems are becoming quite mainstream, and thereforethe approach for selling them has to change too. In particular, the residential solar lease offers a whole new way to look at [...]
Insider Buying and Selling at First Solar (FSLR) $FSLR
Now we know the source of some of this week’s selling pressure in First Solar’s stock. Michael Ahearn, former CEO and current Executive Chairman, dumped $142.1M in company stock between the 22nd and 24th. He sold another $20.7M on the 25th and 26th. However, the good news is that on Friday two FirstSolar (FSLR) executives [...]
Is there a penalty for selling my solar house after getting tax credits?
Rollin from North Carolina contacted us just a while ago to ask: If you install a solar panel system, receive theapplicable tax credits and then sell the house in two years, do youhave to refund the tax credits? If not, is there any penalty? … I havea 20 year shingle roof…should I consider re-roofing prior [...]
Are Solyndra’s Module Costs Higher Than Their Selling Price? (SOLY)
Thinfilm solar vendor Solyndra (SOLY) was not exactly explicit in declaringtheir module price per watt in their recently filed S-1 (which we dissected in Part 1). In short, the company doesn’t put the number in there. Trony Solar, which recently pulled its IPO, and others do. Some simple math, which admitedly does not tell the [...]
FSLR CFO Dumping Shares
First Solar (FSLR) insiders are dumping shares with the mostsignificant being the selling from CFO Jens Meyerhoff who dumped nearly$3 million in stock on May 1st (which is a significant portion of theholdings). The last time Jens dumped stock? Right around last yearstop in July/August. Also doing some significant selling is the estateof John Walton [...]