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Solar: A Great Hedge Against Hyper-Inflation
Many economists think that a financial Armageddon is on the horizon in the United States and Europe. While don’t necessarily agree that a meltdown would result in an end-days scenario, doomsday prepper-style, there is certainly an argument to be made for inevitable inflation if out of control deficit spending by governments continues. How can solar [...]
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 [...]
Suntech Power Gets Much Needed Loan
The world’s largest solar panel maker, China’s Suntech Power (NYSE: STP) is getting an emergency $31.7 million loan from the local government to help it weather its financial troubles. The lifeline comes from the city of Wuxi in Jiangsu province, where the company is based. The mayor created a task force to help Suntech. He offered a package [...]
The Dark Side of Solar
The Los Angeles Times is talking about the dark side of all the huge, utility-scaled projects shooting up across California’s desert. Experts are predicting that consumers’ utility bills could go up by 50 percent as renewable energy produced in the state boosts electricity rates 10 – 20 percent. Last year, California Governor Jerry Brown approved [...]
First Solar Looks to India for Growth
In the wake of the world’s biggest power outage, First Solar hopes its increasingly successful project development strategy will help it win at least 20% of India’s solar PV sales, reports Bloomberg. “Our focus really is to create a new stream of demand in the market from industrial and commercial businesses,” Sujoy Ghosh, head of [...]
Enphase Announces Impressive Q2 Results
Solar microinverter firm Enphase (Nasdaq:ENPH) announced strong second-quarter earnings in its second quarter as a public company this afternoon. In a bit of a shocker, just prior to its earnings call, Enphase announced the departure of its CFO Sanjeev Kumar. Like all abruptly departing CFOs, Kumar will be devoting more time to his family. Hopefully, [...]
Smelling the Desperation of Chinese Solar Companies
The biggest Chinese solar panel producers like Sunech, Trina ,Yingli and Canadian Solar have come out strongly against the recent filing of a complaint of dumping of Chinese solar panels in Europe. Solarworld which is the biggest German solar panel company has led a group of 25 European solar companies in filing a complaint against [...]
The Philippines Passes Renewable Energy FiT
In a historic day for renewable energy in The Philippines, the country approved a feed-in tariff (FiT) that convers small hydro, biomass, wind, and solar. It postponed including ocean energy for further study. The government previously announced the FiT for geothermal separately, in what it calls a “geothermal crash program.” It raised the rates to provide incentives to [...]
Solar War Update: China Fights Back
Germany’s SolarWorld lauched a U.S. anti-dumping trade claim against China in solar PV modules through SolarWorld America in October of last year. The firm was well within its corporate responsibility in its actions. SolarWorld has pressured for an anti-China trade claim to be made in Europe as well. But trade claims and anti-dumping tariffs don’t [...]