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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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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The German Bosch group acquires ersol, photovoltaic cell company based in Erfurt, Germany. In the future, the company will be known as Bosch Solar Energy AG. The remaining minority shareholders will receive 102.77 EUR for a share. Links: Bosch übernimmt ersol komplett (in German)
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In the future, it could be possible to provide almost free clean energy for everyone, suggests Joel Makover in an article published by the BusinessWeek. This would become possible, as the homes and businesses become smarter and more self-sufficient regarding energy as we install solar and other renewable energy systems to generate power. The...
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Many green investors look only at the green ETFs and green stocks quoted on the New York Stock Exchange. In addition, most of the web sites dedicated to ETFs only collect information about the ETFs quoted on NYSE. Today I'll take a short look at the green ETFs quoted on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.
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Too green investors miss some of the best opportunities, claims an article about Desertec solar project published in Seeking Alpha: Desertec Solar Project: Investors Can't Afford to Be Too Green if They Want to Make Money.
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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 (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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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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QuantaSol is a privately funded company providing third generation solar cells for use in concentrating PV systems. The company has reported having achieved 28.3% efficiency as tested by the Fraunhofer ISE. Green investors should follow closely the news about this company as it might well make the next big breakthrough in solar energy business.
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