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A123′s Stock Now Under $1
A123 (Nasdaq: AONE) had a rocky 2011. 2012 is turning out to have its deep challenges as well. In the face of recent genuinely positive design wins for the lithium-ion battery maker across its target markets of transportation and utility-scale storage, the firm is facing threatening self-induced as well as external issues. On the positve [...]
Investing: How to Play the Cleantech Energy Boom
The Energy Report: Your research at Raymond James covers a number of alternative energy and biofuel companies. Can you give us a brief description of the various cleantech industry segments? Pavel Molchanov: The cleantech arena comprises four key areas in terms of what’s investable in the public equity markets today. Solar carries the biggest market [...]
Enphase Debuts on NASDAQ
After a long drought, a solar company has made it through the IPO window. Enphase, after lowering its IPO price price to $6.00 per share (down from the $10.00 to $12.00 per share range set earlier this month) has crossed over from private to public company. The Petaluma, Calif.-based microinverter startup will trade on the [...]
Enphase Drops IPO Price
Enphase has lowered its IPO price range to between $6.00 and $7.00 — down from the $10.00 to $12.00 per share range set earlier this month. Enphase is the Petaluma, Calif.-based microinverter startup that has been long been viewed at as an obvious candidate for IPO. The current pricing comes nine months after the IPO [...]
A123 Announces Recall, Stock Nosedives
A123 (Nasdaq: AONE) had a rocky 2011. 2012 is turning out to have its challenges as well. The lithium iron battery maker just announced “a field campaign to replace battery modules and packs that may contain defective prismatic cells produced at A123′s Livonia, Mich. manufacturing facility,” according to a release. The “defect has been discovered [...]
Next-Generation Nuclear Power
The Energy Report: Tom, you recently gave speeches in Vancouver and New York City on American energy policy. Please share with us your view of nuclear energy and its role in American power generation. Thomas Drolet: My speeches at the January Cambridge House International Resources Conference and the March Murdock Capital Partners Conference sessions highlighted [...]
Brightsource Sets IPO Price
Concentrating solar developer BrightSource Energy set the price range for its IPO, signaling it will happen soon. The company is looking to raise $183 million at share prices ranging from $21-$23. It will trade under the ticker, BRSE. It filed for the IPO last April with a $250 million target, but now BrightSource says it [...]
Enphase Readies for IPO
Enphase, the Petaluma, Calif.-based microinverter startup just priced its maiden stock offering at $10 to $12 per share according to an SEC filing. A date for the IPO has not been set. The pricing comes nine months after the IPO was registered with the SEC. The offer looks to raise approximately $72 million to $87 [...]
Should You Buy First Solar’s Stock? $FSLR
First Solar Inc.’s fourth quarter 2011 earnings release this week showed that the company is continuing its focus on regrouping then moving forward with a business plan that looks to non-subsidized markets to expand. That may be a good thing, because it announced results shortly after German Ministers announced plans that would sharply reduce solar [...]
SunPower Silences the Critics with Recent Earnings and Guidance
While it’s still choppy seas for the solar industry, SunPower’s full-year results for 2011 beat analysts’ estimates, and its 2012 guidance led some analysts to be more bullish on its stock. Among other steps the company is taking, it’s working to reduce costs by simplifying its production process and introducing more efficient PV cells. The [...]
The Natural Gas Era Is Here: Interview with Stephen Taylor
The Energy Report: There’s some escalating tension in the Gulf of Hormuz between Iran, the U.S. and Israel. Do you think that this will be a catalyst for oil prices in 2012? Stephen Taylor: It may well be. It underscores the need for and the value of assets in politically stable areas. It also bodes [...]
Has First Solar Bottomed? $FSLR
I’ve been traveling in Panama, so have some earnings reports to catch up on. First Solar (FSLR) reported after the bell on Tuesday and it wasn’t pretty. The company missed badly on a non GAAP basis in addition to reporting a hefty one time loss which included $125 million for faulty panels produced a few [...]