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SolarCity Earnings = MEH
SolarCity (SCTY) has been one of the hottest alternative energy stocks since its Initial Public Offering five short months ago. Yesterday it shot up 24% in one day, on the largest one-day volume since it opened, in anticipation of its quarterly earnings release. It is up 95% in the past three months, and has more [...]
Picking A Winning Solar Investment
Which solar company is the best investment right now: SunPower, Trina Solar, LDK Solar, Canadian Solar, Suntech Power, First Solar, or another big solar company? Advisors will tell you that some companies have the highest “production efficiency” or the highest “panel efficiency,” while other companies are laden with debt or caught up in international tariff [...]
California’s Oldest Winery Goes Solar
The Charles Krug Winery, California’s oldest, has joined a growing number of California wineries turning to the sun for more than just growing grapes. The winery is becoming the latest to add photovoltaics to reduce its grid-supplied electric demand. It’s also taking advantage of the installation to reduce its energy use. The Napa Valley winery [...]
How SunPower is Winning
SunPower Corporation (NASDAQ: SPWR) sells the most efficient, most expensive module of any of those made by the world’s top ten manufacturers, yet it leads in U.S. residential installs and ranks among the leading utility-scale developers. “We win,” said Regions President Howard Wenger, because “although the technology costs more, it produces more power.” Customers, Wenger [...]
Solar Impulse Airplane: SunPower Inside
Remember the remarkable solar plane that surpassed a 24-hour test flight? If you do, great! If you don’t, then sit tight because I promise to fill you in. In a previous post back in April, I had written about a solar aircraft prototype, whose team of creators agreed to an ambitious goal after the success [...]
Solar Stocks: Is the Bottom In?
Solar Stocks have made their investors suicidal with drops of of 80-90% from the top common even amongst the biggest solar companies. A number of solar companies like Q-Cells, Solar Millenium, and Solon, which used to be amongst the 10 biggest ones have gone bankrupt. In fact most of the German solar companies have either [...]
SunPower Expands Manufacturing in France
Despite the gut in PV modules throughout most of the world, SunPower is expecting more demand for its products. As such it just introduced its newest manufacturing facility in De Vernejoul, France, near it’s northeastern border with Germany. The new plant employs roughly 80 workers and will produce 44 megawatts of modules annually. “Construction [...]
Will Solar Stocks Make A Comeback?
With fundamental issues in the solar industry, including oversupply and consolidation, solar stocks are likely to remain at record lows through the end of 2012 and into 2013. Recent news announcements about the US Commerce Department duties on Chinese solar panel manufacturers will likely have short-term negative impacts on Chinese solar stocks, said Adam Krop, [...]
SunPower & Ford: Teaming Up on PV+EV
When it comes to cutting carbon emissions, electric vehicles (EVs) are hands-down the best thing around for drivers. A recent study by the Union of Concerned Scientists reiterated that electric vehicles are a lot better for the environment than filling up a tank of unleaded, no matter where you live in the US. Even the [...]