During the last months, First Solar (FSLR) has not done especially well on the stock market. It seems that even the insiders have lost some of their faith in FSLR as Michael J. Ahearn has sold a substantial amount of FSLR shares. During the last week of February, he sold FSLR shares for about $162,8M. Mr. [...]

First Solar (FSLR) and Southern California Edison have announced they are planning to build two solar power projects in South California. The solar power plants in Riverside and San Bernardino are expected to  generate 550 megawatts of photovoltaic solar electricity which is enough to power 170,000 homes. The construction of the projects should start in [...]

Chinese solar manufacturer Trina Solar (NYSE:TSL) sold 4.5 million American depositary shares. The company nets $124 million ro reducing its debt and financing the expansion in the fast growing solartechnology market in China. Read more in Trina Solar nets $124M for debt, expansion (Cleantech Group). During the last trading days, the First Solar (NASDAQ:FSLR) has continued [...]

Tom Konrad has published an interesting article about his favorite solar stocks to buy - if the prices come down to an acceptable level. His favorites are Solar Millennium AG, SatCon Technology, Power-One Inc., Sustainable Energy Technologies and Advanced Energy Industries.

Peter C. Beller of Forbes sees a solar eclipse in the stock markets. According to Beller, the  solar power sector may be about to deliver investors some bad news. The prices for photovoltaic cells are lowering rapidly which may be good for both the consumer and environment but present solar companies with difficulties during the recession. The [...]

Q-Cells (ETR:QCE) is a German company that develops and produces solar cells. Today the stock has lost already more than 11%, after the company announced it would likely post a loss for the second quarter.

Solar Millennium AG (ETR:S2M) continues to rise. Today, at 12:15 CEST the stock is quoted at 24.80 €, +13.14% since yesterday and more than 55 % in a month. On July 8, 2009, the stock was quoted as low as 19.50 €.

The German solar technology company Solar Millennium AG (ETR:S2M) will provide the technology for one of the biggest solar power plants worldwide. According to Reuters, the plant will be built by a consortium formed by RWE Innogy, Stadwerke Munich, plant builder MAN Ferrostaal, RheinEnergie of Cologne and Eerlangen-based Solar Millennium. Solar Millennium AG is quoted at [...]

Solar stocks are often seen as basically leveraged oil stocks. So it is not surprising that the recent development of price of oil is reflected in the solar stocks and exchange traded funds (ETFs).  Today, crude oil falls for the sixth consecutive day , which is the longest losing streak since the December 2008. The losses [...]

The German blog and news site Cleanthinking.de published a few days ago an interesting story about Solar Millenium (ETR:S2M) from Erlangen, Germany. The company is probably not as well known as First Solar (NYSE:FSLR) among green investors but this might soon change. Solar Millennium AG is one of the companies involved with the Desertec Industrial [...]