My investment portfolio is 100 % long only — I don’t have short positions, nor do I aim at short term speculative gains. Because of this, I have been interested in green ETFs for a few years. During the last year, my green ETF investments have not been very successfull. On the other hand,...
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Green investing in Africa: Desertec
In the last year, I have been thinking about adding some more risk into my very own portfolio in the form of African companies. Investing in Africa could very well be considered as socially responsible investments in itself. It would be even more interesting, if I could bet on both alternative energies and Africa...
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FSLR insiders on the selling side
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...
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FSLR to Build 550 MW Solar Power in California
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...
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Solar Energy Stocks in News
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)...
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Solar Stocks Shopping
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.
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Solar Eclipse
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...
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Q-Cells Falls Over 12%: Catastrophic Results in Q2
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.
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Solar Millennium AG +55.17% in a Month
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 €.
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Solar Millennium AG Provides Technology to a Solar Plant in Spain
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...
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