Category: Solar Energy
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Wednesday, January 21, 2015
Solar Power is at a Tipping Point (The Upshot is Massive Profits) / Companies / Solar Energy
By: Money_Morning
Dr. Kent Moors writes: I have spent years tracking dozens of promising renewable energy companies.
And while the potential of these groundbreaking companies has always been tempting, there have always been limitations holding them back.
New projects require intensive amounts of working capital to make them fully compatible with traditional methods of generating power, and there’s the widely held assumption that renewables can’t survive absent government subsidies and benefits.
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Wednesday, January 14, 2015
Why the Smart Money is Betting on Renewable Energ - Brewing Solar Power Boom / Commodities / Solar Energy
By: Money_Morning
Dr. Kent Moors writes: While everyone’s been fixated on oil, renewable energy has been gathering some serious steam.
Led by solar power, worldwide capital investment in “clean” energy surged by more than 16% last year.
In fact, spending on renewable energy was so strong in 2014, some have begun to label the recent rush into renewables as a “turning point” in the energy balance.
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Saturday, December 27, 2014
The Surprising Connection Between Solar Stocks and Crude Oil Price / Commodities / Solar Energy
By: Investment_U
Rachel Gearhart writes: The impact of the drop in oil prices can be seen across the market. But there’s one affected area that surprises investors the most: solar stocks.
This week’s chart compares U.S. crude futures to the Guggenheim Solar ETF (NYSE: TAN) over the past three months.
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Wednesday, August 27, 2014
The Big Solar Energy Breakthrough We've Been Waiting For / Companies / Solar Energy
By: Money_Morning
Besides its environmental advantages, solar power has always had one great benefit: It's hyper local. Solar panels make it possible to generate electricity on-site, precisely where it's needed. Like a portable generator powered by the sun, solar energy promises power wherever the sun shines.
What began as backup to more conventional grid-networked sources of power has quickly blossomed into a separate profit center.
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Friday, June 20, 2014
China Might Be Winning The Race To Reduce Solar Energy Generation Costs / Commodities / Solar Energy
By: OilPrice_Com
Many people, even fanatical advocates of solar power, are unaware quite how close we are to reaching a critical milestone in the industry. Within a fairly short space of time, solar generated electricity will be fully cost competitive with coal-powered electricity -- at least if the governments of the world's two largest energy consuming nations have their way.Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, June 17, 2014
Solar Energy Sector ETF Breaking Out – How to Trade It / Companies / Solar Energy
By: Chris_Vermeulen
During the past couple months several indexes, sectors and commodities have sold off more than 10 – 20%. But now some are looking like new buying opportunities. Over the next week I will bring a few of these trades to your attention as they start to unfold.
Today we are looking at the TAN solar ETF. This sector recently had a 23% hair cut in price. A 20-25% correction in price is a typical intermediate correction for a fast moving sector. The price correction has pulled the sector down to its 150 and 200 simple day moving averages. These levels tend to act as long term support for investors, a buying point.
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Friday, June 06, 2014
Solar Roadways: Turning Pavement into Power / Commodities / Solar Energy
By: Money_Morning
Dr. Kent Moors writes: If you haven’t heard of Scott and Julie Brusaw yet, chances are you will before too long.
They are the founders of a crowd-funded idea that may just revolutionize both transportation and energy.
It is the coolest idea I’ve seen in quite some time. It’s so inventive it could flat-out change everything we think about power.
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Wednesday, May 28, 2014
Angela Merkel Snubs Global Warming And Dumps The Solar Industry / Politics / Solar Energy
By: Andrew_McKillop
Mutter and Stutter
Germany's Angela Merkel, nicknamed the Mutter for “Mother” of a successful Germany who got herself re-elected, is said by Berlin daily 'TAZ' to have already decided she will not attend the Ban Ki-Moon-initiated UN climate conference in New York this September. The paper says this was “confirmed by a government spokesman“. If so, Merkel’s decision to snub the event is likely another sign that efforts to implement present climate agreements, and forge new ones are already dead in the water. Germany EEG or renewable energy law (Erneuerbare-Energien-Gesetz) is another very likely collateral victim.
Friday, April 18, 2014
Has Solar Power Finally Arrived? / Commodities / Solar Energy
By: Money_Morning
Dr. Kent Moors writes: Solar power has always offered up the promise of three tremendous benefits.
It’s renewable, it’s great for the environment, and it can be produced right here at home – safely insulated from the ups and downs of global politics and market bottlenecks.
But there has always been one big problem with solar – the price.
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Tuesday, April 01, 2014
FiTs And Starts For The Solar Economy / Politics / Solar Energy
By: Andrew_McKillop
Nadeem Walayat Explains in his most recent article on the follies of UK government attempts to “go low carbon” and self righteously pretend it is Saving the Planet from global warming catastrophe, Nadeem Walayat explained what solar feed-in tariffs really mean. Under the former New Labour regime paying FITs of 44 GBP pence or about 70 US cents per kilowatthour for Home Solar producers, pricing their electricity output at 1120 US dollars per barrel equivalent of energy (1600 kWh per barrel), they would have every reason to do the following.
Tuesday, April 01, 2014
UK Home Solar Panel Installations Good or Bad for House Buying and Selling? / Housing-Market / Solar Energy
By: Nadeem_Walayat
The solar installation industry has been busy for many years convincing home owners with well rehearsed sales pitches and graphs of how much they could earn each year by profiting from FREE energy from the sun to generate their own electricity by installing large arrays of solar panels onto their south-ish facing roofs, that like a contagion soon tend to spread to neighbouring roofs despite the fact that the southern most tip of the Island of Britain lies a good 500 miles north of the start of the optimum zone for generating solar energy.
Friday, February 14, 2014
The “Secret Ingredient” that Generates Solar Power at Night! / Companies / Solar Energy
By: Money_Morning
Dr. Kent Moors writes: As solar power enthusiasts know all too well, renewable energy has the same problem that the “normal” generation of electricity does.
It’s how to store all of the energy produced so that it can be used when it’s needed. For solar power, that means even at night.
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Friday, January 03, 2014
Shakedown Or Sundown For The World Solar Industry 2014 / Commodities / Solar Energy
By: Andrew_McKillop
Sooner or Later
The solar photovoltaic industry boom-bust sequence, or cycle, has a special role for many countries and especially China, Germany and Spain who are, or were all serial over-producers of PV modules, as well as big national installers and operators of solar energy. According to US market-tracker NPD Solarbuzz, world demand for solar PV systems rose to a record quarterly rate of 9 million kilowatts (9000 MW or 9 GW) of generating capacity in the July-September quarter of 2013. Major installation programs were under way or continuing in China, Japan, the US, Germany, Italy and some other EU28 countries.
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
How Investors Can Make Money with Clean Tech Energy / Companies / Solar Energy
By: The_Energy_Report
AEIS GTLS ENOC KIOR SZYM Let's get one thing straight: Clean tech is much more than solar panels. So if you're squeamish about the Solyndra bankruptcy, it's time to do some more homework. Raymond James Energy Analyst Pavel Molchanov is following clean tech companies around the world that help utilities avoid rolling blackouts, connect solar systems to the grid and produce biofuels that don't compete with food crops. Discover these fascinating stories in this interview with The Energy Report and find out which names Molchanov is recommending for short- and long-term profits—as well as stocks to steer clear of.
Wednesday, May 01, 2013
The Untold Truth About Solar Power Stocks / Companies / Solar Energy
By: Money_Morning
Dr. Kent Moors writes: The price of solar energy shares has been spiking, leading to the obvious parallel questions:
Is it sustainable?...Or what prospects exist for the average individual retail investor?
Before we address these questions, it would be best to lay some groundwork.
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Friday, March 29, 2013
Safe Solar Havens - What You Dont Expect Wont Happen / Commodities / Solar Energy
By: Andrew_McKillop
BLOOMBERG MIRACLE ADVICE
On March 29 Bloomberg told its readers that Germany’s solar industry "is set to benefit from the financial crisis in Cyprus as investors seek a haven in the guaranteed returns provided by clean-energy plants". It cited a small German firm called Milk the Sun GmbH (more appropriately Milk the Pigeons Unlimited) which claims it is now deluged with investor requests for advice on placements in the "sensitive range" of 100 000 euros and up.
Thursday, March 14, 2013
The Cold Hard Truth About Solar Energy / Commodities / Solar Energy
By: Money_Morning
Dr. Kent Moors writes: Not long ago, I wrote about the German drive to replace nuclear energy with solar and wind power.
At the time, Berlin was touting this overture as the "next great push" into a new energy age.
Turns out, plans haven't gone as expected.
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Tuesday, November 27, 2012
The Solar Energy Tipping Point, Polysilicon Prices in 2012 / Commodities / Solar Energy
By: Investment_U
David Fessler writes: Solar energy detractors point to the fact that it can’t compete without “huge” government subsidies. And up until now, I couldn’t argue to the contrary.
But very soon, those detractors will likely be eating their words. I’ve said it many times in the past: Technology marches on, and the cost of manufacturing will come down.
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