Canadian Solar - wo geht die Reise hin? (Seite 141)

[SLGramann]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 34.681.295 von SLGramann am 08.08.08 11:48:47

na ups... falscher Thread, wie ihr selbst gemerkt habt...

Canadian am 13.08.2008:

http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=196781&p=irol-Ev…

[SLGramann]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 34.680.982 von istanbulman am 08.08.08 11:28:58

Laut Trina kommen die Zahlen am 18.08.

http://www.trinasolar.com/front/en/news.php?newid=81

Es ist schon mal ein Fortschritt, dass man jetzt zu einer normalen Zeit berichtet und nicht als so ziemlich letztes aller Solarunternehmen. In der Buchführung scheint also das schlimmste Chaos bereinigt worden zu sein.

Was mich besonders interessieren wird:

- Prozesskosten
- Siliziumkosten
- Höhe der Abschreibungen auf das eigene Si-Projekt
- Höhe der Währungsverluste

[istanbulman]

hi
am 13.8 also am mittwoch sollen doch die zahlen für das 2Q kommen stimmts?
aber im yahoo habe ich noch keine offiziele pressemitteilung gelesen dies bezüglich?
habe ich da was verpaßt?

[dicki31785]

(CNN) -- Barack Obama and John McCain play up their willingness to reach across the aisle, and now that there's a bipartisan energy compromise on the table, they have the opportunity to put their words to the test.

A group of Republican and Democratic senators dubbed the "Gang of 10" has put forth a compromise to break the stalemate on energy legislation.

The senators say their plan will lower gas prices, reduce the dependence on foreign oil and strengthen the U.S. economy.

"This is not a Democratic issue, or a Republican issue, it is an issue that affects all of us. I am committed to working with all of my colleagues in a bipartisan manner to resolve the energy crisis. The time for delay is over. We need to act now," said Sen. Kent Conrad, who is leading the proposal.

The proposal includes concessions for both Democrats and Republicans, but compromising carries risks for the White House hopefuls.

Both candidates have been vocal in their support for and opposition to some key parts of the energy compromise.

The major components of the proposal include:

# Expanding drilling opportunities off the East coast and Gulf of Mexico, which pleases Republicans

# Keeping a ban on drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, a concession to Democrats

# Repealing a tax break for oil companies that Democrats have long called for

# Putting billions toward producing more alternative-fuel vehicles, in part paid for by the oil and gas industry

But backing the compromise carries the risk of angering some supporters of both candidates. Video Watch the candidates trade jabs over energy »

"I think for Obama ... the problem is drilling and is alienating environmental activists. For McCain, the problem is alienating anti-tax advocates, who are already sort of frustrated with him on some level," said John Mercurio, a political analyst.

McCain has been pushing for offshore drilling, saying it's a "vital part" of dealing with the energy challenge. Video Watch McCain call for Congress to get to work »
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"We have to drill here and drill now -- not wait and see whether there's areas to explore, not wait and see whether there's a package that needs to be put together, but drill here and drill now," the presumptive Republican nominee said Monday in Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania.

Obama has opposed new offshore drilling, but he now says he would consider it if it were part of a larger strategy to lower energy costs.

He supports repealing the tax break for oil companies and he's tried to paint McCain as a candidate who is "in the pocket" of big oil corporations.

Obama advocates a windfall profits tax on big oil corporations that would be used to provide a $1,000 rebate to people struggling with high energy costs.

The Democratic hopeful said he supports some of the proposals in the Gang of 10 compromise, but he said he remains skeptical of the drilling provisions.

"Like all compromises, this one has its drawbacks," Obama said Monday in Lansing, Michigan. "It includes a limited amount of new offshore drilling, and while I still don't believe that's a particularly meaningful short-term or long-term solution, I am willing to consider it if it's necessary to actually pass a comprehensive plan.

"I am not interested in making the perfect the enemy of the good -- particularly since there's so much good in this compromise that would actually reduce our dependence on foreign oil."

The "Gang of 10" includes Conrad, D-North Dakota; Saxby Chambliss, R-Georgia; John Thune, R-South Dakota; Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina; Blanche Lincoln, D-Arkansas; Mary Landrieu, D-Louisiana; Johnny Isakson, R-Georgia; Bob Corker, R-Tennessee; Mark Pryor, D-Arkansas; and Ben Nelson, D-Nebraska.

The presidential candidates have plenty of time to push their proposals on the campaign trail. Congress adjourned Friday for its annual 5-week recess and won't pick up the legislation until it returns in September.

Meanwhile in the House, Republicans have staged a revolt and are demanding that Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi call the House into session to vote on its version of the energy bill.

Republicans refused to leave the House floor Friday and began five hours of speeches protesting Democratic energy policies immediately after the House was dismissed. The speeches picked up again Monday morning and Republicans have pledged to keep up the effort.

Democrats have called the Republicans' defiance a political stunt, but Rep. Mike Pence of Indiana, who's leading the energy protest, said "it's not a stunt, it's a feat." Video Watch what Pence says about the revolt »

Most Americans support an increase in offshore oil drilling, but the public is split over whether drilling would lead to lower gas prices next year, according to a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll out last week.

According to the poll, 69 percent favor offshore drilling and 30 percent oppose it.
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Just over half -- 51 percent -- think the drilling would lower gas prices next year, while 49 percent say it would not.

The survey is based on interviews with 1,041 adult Americans conducted by telephone on July 27-29. It carries a margin of error of plus or minus 4.5 percentage points.

[dicki31785]

Hier ist mal eine zusammenfassung wie Obama bzw. McCain's plaene bezueglich energy policy aussehen werden....fand ich ziehmlich interessant...mfg CW

(CNN) -- Presidential candidates Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain are detailing their plans for solving the country's energy crisis and criticizing each other's proposals this week as they campaign in battleground states.

Both Sens. McCain and Obama are touting solar energy, harnessed through solar panels like these found on Al Gore's home.

Here's a look at the candidates' energy proposals:

Overall strategy

McCain, the presumptive GOP nominee, has proposed a national energy strategy that would rely on the technological prowess of American industry and science.

McCain has said he would work to reduce carbon emissions 60 percent below 1990 levels by 2050. He has said he would commit $2 billion annually for 15 years to advance clean coal technology.

He also has pledged to oppose a windfall profits tax on oil companies that, according to his campaign Web site, "will ultimately result in increasing our dependence on foreign oil and hinder investment in domestic exploration."

Meanwhile, Obama laid out his comprehensive energy plan Monday in Lansing, Michigan.

"If I am president, I will immediately direct the full resources of the federal government and the full energy of the private sector to a single, overarching goal -- in 10 years, we will eliminate the need for oil from the entire Middle East and Venezuela," the presumptive Democratic nominee told a crowd.

Obama's plan also would invest $150 billion over the next 10 years and leverage billions more in private capital to build a new energy economy that he said would harness American energy and create 5 million new jobs.

He also called on businesses, government and the American people to meet the goal of reducing U.S. demand for electricity by 15 percent by the end of the next decade and said he would modernize the national utility grid.

Another prominent feature in the plan: Immediately give every working family in America a $1,000 energy rebate and pay for it from oil company profits.

Offshore drilling

In June, McCain proposed lifting the ban on offshore drilling as part of his plan to reduce dependence on foreign oil and help combat rising gas prices.

His plan would let individual states decide whether to explore drilling possibilities. The proposal could put McCain at odds with environmentalists, who said it is incongruous with his plans to combat global warning. California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, a McCain ally, opposes offshore drilling.

The senator from Arizona opposes drilling in some wilderness areas -- including the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge -- and said those places must be left undisturbed.

Obama has opposed new offshore drilling, but he said last week that he would consider it if it were part of a larger strategy to lower energy costs.

On Friday, Obama praised a bipartisan energy plan from the Senate that combines alternative energy innovation, financial, nuclear energy and drilling proposals.

He released a statement supporting an effort by five Democrats and five Republicans to break Congress' energy impasse with legislation that would allow expanded offshore oil exploration and embrace ambitious energy efficiency and efforts to develop alternative fuels.

Obama also has said he believes oil companies should drill on the 68 million acres they have access to but haven't touched and would require oil companies that will not drill to give up their leases to someone who will.

Strategic oil reserves

McCain advocates suspending the purchase of foreign oil for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve during periods of high prices to reduce demand.

Obama called for tapping into strategic oil reserves as part of his plan to provide relief from high gas prices. (He previously said he was opposed to using the strategic reserves, but on Monday he proposed selling 70 million barrels of oil from the reserves to lower gas prices).

Cars and driving

McCain has proposed a $300 million award for "the development of a battery package that has the size, capacity, cost and power to leapfrog the commercially available plug-in hybrids or electric cars."

He also called for the suspension of the 18.4-cent-a-gallon federal gas tax and 24.4-cent-a-gallon diesel tax from Memorial Day to Labor Day. The McCain campaign has said the lost revenue would be paid for by money from the general fund.

Obama's energy plan would provide $4 billion in loans and tax credits to American auto plants and manufacturers so that they can retool their factories and build fuel-efficient cars, would put 1 million 150-mph, plug-in hybrids on U.S. roads within six years and would give consumers a $7,000 tax credit to buy fuel-efficient cars.

Nuclear energy

McCain has called for building new nuclear reactors, saying barriers to nuclear energy are political, not technological.

He also would provide for safe storage of spent nuclear fuel and give host states or localities a proprietary interest so when advanced recycling technologies turn used fuel into a valuable commodity, the public would share in the economic benefits.

Obama said he'll find safer ways to use nuclear power and store nuclear waste.

In a Democratic primary debate this year, he said, "We should explore nuclear power as part of the energy mix."

Renewable energy

McCain's plan would commit $2 billion annually to advance clean coal technologies.

He also has called on a permanent tax credit, which he has said will "simplify the tax code, reward activity in the U.S., and make us more competitive with other countries," according to his campaign Web site.

McCain also has encouraged development of low carbon fuels -- wind, hydro and solar power.

Meanwhile, Obama's plan would require that 10 percent of U.S. energy comes from renewable sources by the end of his first presidential term. The plan would extend the Production Tax Credit for five years to encourage the production of renewable energy.

Obama has set the goal of creating five first-of-a-kind, coal-fired demonstration plants that would capture and store carbon dioxide emissions. He would also invest in technology that will allow for more coal use.

Climate change

McCain has proposed what he calls a bipartisan plan to address the problem of climate change and stimulate the development and use of advanced technologies. It is a market-based approach that would set caps on carbon and other greenhouse gas emissions and provide industries with tradable credits.

Obama has called for a reduction of carbon emissions by 80 percent by 2050 by using a market-based cap-and-trade system. He would create what his campaign calls a "Global Energy Forum" and re-engage with the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change.

[Dere]

Solar and Cash: The Big Boys Have an Answer - Do You?
by: The Yellow Rose Street Beat posted on: August 01, 2008 | about stocks:
CSIQ / FSLR / SOL / TSL / YGE

http://seekingalpha.com/article/88520-solar-and-cash-the-big…

[dicki31785]

Canadian Solar Start-Up Receives Series B Financing
in News Departments > FYI
by SI Staff on Thursday 31 July 2008
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Cyrium Technologies, a company focused on developing high efficiency, multi-junction solar cells for concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) systems, has closed a Series B round of funding for a total of $15 million.

The round was led by The Quercus Trust of Costa Mesa, Calif. Major investors from previous rounds of financing also participated in this round, including BDC Venture Capital, Chrysalix Energy Venture Capital and Pangaea Ventures Ltd.

"This investment is what Cyrium needs to commercialize its solar cells and enable CPV to be more competitive, thus promoting massive deployment of renewable solar energy," comments Simon Fafard, Cyrium's founder and chief technology officer.

SOURCE: Cyrium

[dicki31785]

Was auch interessant war was der CEO von FSLR gestern gesagt hat im CC....er meinte es koennte auch gut vorkommen des der ITC nur um ein jahr verlaengert wird um den naehsten presidenten(Obama o. McCain) mehr o. weniger entscheiden zu lassen wie es weitergeht....also das waere auch eine moeglichkeit...aber dies wuerde dann warscheinlich wieder als unsicherheit ausgelegt...und wuerde den kurs druecken... ausser natuerlich obama gewinnt und dann sitzen wir auf dem jackpot...mfg CW

[Maverick22]

Eighth time’s not a charm: Senate fails again to extend key renewable energy tax credit

With billions of dollars of solar and wind power projects and thousands of green-collar jobs hanging in the balance, the U.S. Senate on Wednesday again failed to extend a key investment tax credit for renewable energy.

Republicans blocked the legislation from coming to the floor, marking the eighth attempt to extend the 30 percent tax credit beyond it’s Jan. 1, 2009, expiration date. The extension is backed by all the state governors save Georgia, and a coalition of Fortune 500 companies, Wall Street banks, renewable energy startups, and tech giants like Google (GOOG), Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) and Applied Materials (AMAT).

Utilities like PG&E (PCG) and Edison International (EIX) as well as financiers such as Morgan Stanley (MS) and GE Energy Financial Services (GE), are pushing for an eight-year extension of the investment tax credit to give Big Solar projects enough time to get off the ground and start to achieve economies of scale.

Senate Republicans opposed the legislation, contending it would raise taxes.

Without the 30 percent tax credit, the viability of several large solar power plant projects remains in doubt. Spanish solar company Abengoa Solar has said it probably will pull out of plans to build a 280-megawatt power plant in Arizona if Congress doesn’t renew the tax credit. Green Wombat happened to have breakfast this morning with a PG&E executive who said that the large solar projects that California utilities are counting on to meet renewable energy mandates would have a hard time securing financing absent the investment tax credit.

First Solar CEO Michael Ahearn said on an earnings call Wednesday afternoon that if the investment tax credit is not extended the thin-film solar module maker would focus its efforts on the European market. “We don’t have massive volumes of solar planned for the U.S. in the short term,” said Ahearn.

Said Rhone Resch, president of the trade group Solar Energy Industries Association, in a statement: “Already companies are putting projects on hold and preparing to send thousands of jobs overseas – real jobs that would otherwise be filled by American workers.”

While Barack Obama and John McCain have have expressed support for increasing the U.S.’s investment in green energy, neither presidential candidate showed up to vote Wednesday on the extension of the tax credit.

http://greenwombat.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2008/07/30/eighth-t…

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Die Republikaner blockieren weiter ..... - einfach nur unglaublich!!!!!!! - was mich zuversichtlich macht, dass schon über 500 Unternehmen (und sehr große dabei) dieses Vorhaben unterstützen.... - es ist nur eine Frage der Zeit!!!

lg Mave

[Dere]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 34.618.622 von xxtraderxx am 30.07.08 21:43:43

CSIQ, Solf habe ich allerdings auch im Depot...

Bei CSIQ hast du mehr Fantasie und trotzdem mehr Sicherheit
im Depot.

First Solar hat nachbörslich gute Zahlen vorgelegt, die nächsten Tage
sollte es "sonnig" weitergehen.