Wednesday, April 23, 2008

First Solar Inc (NASDAQ: FSLR)

First Solar's earnings are coming up next week, 30th April, and so far as been one of the few solar stocks that recovered from the Bear Rally since the beginning of the year.

Presently near historical highs, this title might suffer some corrections even if the earnings results are stellar. I just hope that the stock doesn't make a big gap in any direction but instead keep the steady movement up.

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Monday, April 21, 2008

Sungevity home solar systems


Sungevity a new startup company with a new web application that allows you to get a quick and easy way to get solar panels on your home roof. Enter your address and satellite-imaging software will zoom in on your home, calculate your roof's dimensions, select the right sized solar arrays while computing your return on investment.

Sungevity will then ship one of five off-the-shelf prepackaged solar arrays and dispatch an installation crew to your door. An on-line database tracks local building and permit requirements and sends the necessary forms to you for you to fill out.

The site itself explains the whole process in a flash video: www.sungevity.com

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Thursday, April 17, 2008

SunPower stock slides on third-quarter view


We had Sun Power (NASDAQ: SPWR) releasing earnings today, and the market reacted with a big Sell-off. The news were this:


SunPower's first-quarter net income was $12.8 million, or 15 cents per share, compared with $1.2 million, or 2 cents per share, a year earlier.

Excluding special charges, SunPower earned $39.1 million, or 39 cents per share. Analysts, on average, had been expecting 35 cents per share, according to Reuters Estimates.


reuters article

Even after this recent move, the opening tomorrow will probably be on the upside with the positive earnings on Google pushing the whole market higher.

I will update some charts and news of more solar stocks that are in the move tomorrow.

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Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Solar Energy Storage

After more than 3 months of absence Solar Technology Stocks Blog returns!

Let's hope I've got enough time to update it daily from now on.

The industry keeps evolving, growing and even after the recent Bear rally in the markets, the Solar Industry seems to be gaining a lot of strength in these last weeks.
Of course the soaring Crude Oil prices are helping but there is still a lot of promise for the next months.

Now for some recent news:

New Ways to Store Solar Energy for Nighttime and Cloudy Days
Solar power, the holy grail of renewable energy, has always faced the problem of how to store the energy captured from the sun’s rays so that demand for electricity can be met at night or whenever the sun is not shining.
The difficulty is that electricity is hard to store. Batteries are not up to efficiently storing energy on a large scale. A different approach being tried by the solar power industry could eliminate the problem.


Keep reading here:

New Ways to Store Solar Energy

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