CSKH - waiting for the sun to shine
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so what, we wait until Monday at 6am for it.
What a coward, to hold off filing as long as possible because the 10K is basically a suicide bomb.
that was yesterday. So is the late filing his update? I hope not.
yup insiders tipped off on the fiasco. How can any CEO fib like that and get away with it. I say we sue his ass!
"...I guess this explains the dump we had this week...."
Maybe it was management dumping their lowered .025 options on us.
suntowel, please share your "update" response
Q1 1,685,932
Q2 144,716
Q3 3,404,673
total $5,235,321
I hear ya!
They need to go LONG dammit and pull those lowball offers!
The Current Lithium-Ion Battery Market Will More Than Triple To $44 Billion By 2015 Says Lead Analyst At Deutsche Bank
On Wednesday March 2, 2011, 1:40 pm EST
In the following brief excerpt from the Alternative Energy report, interviewees discuss the outlook for the sector and for investors.
Dan Galves is a member of Deutsche Bank's Global Auto/Auto Parts equity research team. He is the Lead Analyst on vehicle electrification, and an Associate Analyst on DB's U.S. autos coverage. He was recognized in the 2010 Institutional Investor survey as a "Best Up and Comer" for his work. Prior to joining Deutsche Bank, Mr. Galves was a Finance Manager at General Motors. Prior to that, he was Controller for Auto Brokers, a privately held automotive wholesaling company. Mr. Galves holds a master's degree in business administration from the University of South Carolina and a B.A. from the University of North Carolina.
TWST: Which area of the industry do you think has the greatest potential for long-term growth?
Mr. Galves: I thought there were some really interesting comments by SANYO (6764.TYO) recently. They are the biggest lithium-ion producer right now, mostly for laptops and cell phones. The current lithium-ion battery market is about $13 billion per year, almost all in the consumer products. SANYO believes that will more than triple to $44 billion in 2015, and what's really interesting is the split.
They think that the consumer electronics industry will continue to be about a $13 billion market for lithium-ion batteries. Vehicle applications will be another $13 billion, and that this power storage sector that I was just discussing is going to be $18 billion. So I think that's underappreciated by investors, that it's not just electric vehicles that can drive demand for lithium-ion batteries. It's also this power storage area, which a lot of battery experts think will be just as big as automotive.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/SANYO-6764TYO-Believes-The-twst-2989686811.html?x=0&.v=1
T. Boones Pickins on alternative energy
on CNN after the commercial
1,000 share paint job on UBSS's .0365 offer, lol.
http://ih.advfn.com/p.php?pid=level2&symbol=CSKH
This stock is DOA until either the financials are released or the sellers put this on sale.
still holding until I need the off setting loss.
It's just crazy how these companies go dark.
These sellers need to...
shit or get off the pot. Let's be done with this already.
250k x .035 is less then $10,000
So for a measly 10grand they continue to strangle the pps.
Just look at what these so called "institutional" and "accredited" investors have done to this companies stock - pathetic!
UBSS on the best offer now, only bidding .01 (seemingly every MM has CSKH shares to dump - how is that)?
management pumped nicely with their $15M guidance and the recent flurry of 9 PR's while their "instutional" and accredited" investors dumped.
But that's not a pump-'n-dump in a true sense since the seller is removed from the pumper, lol.
there's been no dumping here, right?
OS: I'll wager 250M when the 10k is released
OS: 172,435,479 (11-16-2010)
OS: 143,280,053 (09-30-2010)
OS: 121,479,279 (08-19-2010)
OS: 84,749,254 (05-07-2010)
OS: 79,373,427 (03-24-2010)
OS: 71,146,807 (01-06-2010)
OS: 59,968,922 (11-11-2009)
OS: 42,002,945 (06-30-2009)
my thinking is they want the selling overhang abated by the time they release the numbers. This is not retail sell pressure we're looking at. The MM's on the best offer are only bidding .0001 if at all.
Only management knows wtf is really going on and they are not telling us. They pumped and pumped with 9PR's in over 2 months - now silence as we are lead to slaughter.
I'm holding and calling their bluff!
Chocolate and candy prices going up
Hershey says it will raise prices by nearly 10% to offset rising costs.
Will the rest of the industry follow?
By Kim Peterson on Thu, Mar 31, 2011 12:10 PM
Get ready for broad price hikes in candy and chocolate.
Hershey (HSY) said this week it's going to raise prices by 9.7%, a move that many people expect competitors to follow. The entire industry is facing huge price increases for raw ingredients -- the cost of sugar has more than doubled in the past year -- and can no longer absorb the higher expenses.
In addition to its signature chocolate bar, Hershey makes Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, Twizzlers, Kit Kat and Hershey Kisses. It's not just the cost of ingredients that are rising. Hershey also said it's paying more now for fuel, utilities and transportation. Shares of Hershey were up less than 1% Thursday to $54.72.
Now the industry is waiting for similar price hikes from Mars, which makes M&M candies, and Kraft (KFT), which owns Cadbury. Kraft has already raised prices on some of its other products in the past year.
"I wouldn't be surprised if we heard competitors taking similar actions," a Morningstar analyst told Reuters. One Swiss chocolate maker, Lindt & Spruengli (COCXF), has said it may raise prices in the second half of this year.
That's because soaring prices for ingredients show no signs of slowing. One firm predicts that coffee, sugar and cocoa prices will rise five- to 10-fold by 2014, according to Bloomberg. And there isn't enough farmland to keep up with the demand.
Food prices are rising worldwide. A United Nations index of global food prices hit a record last month, Bloomberg reported. The cost of cocoa, another key ingredient for Hershey and Kraft, has been extremely volatile over the past few years.
"There's a tremendous shortage of food, there's a tremendous shortage of arable land," an analyst told Bloomberg. "Any kind of food products are going to increase."
LDK Solar Finalizes Acquisition of 70% of Solar Power, Inc. for $33 Million
Date : 03/31/2011 @ 3:30AM
LDK Solar Co., Ltd. ("LDK Solar") (NYSE:LDK), a leading manufacturer of multicrystalline solar wafers and PV products, and Solar Power, Inc. (“SPI”) (OTCBB:SOPW), announced today that LDK Solar has finalized its acquisition of a 70% interest in SPI for approximately $33 million. LDK paid an initial $10 million in January and today announced it has finalized the transaction with a second payment of $23 million.
The transaction adds significant financial strength to SPI’s balance sheet, enabling the acceleration of the development of its project pipeline, which primarily consists of utility-scale power plants and commercial/industrial distributed generation systems. SPI’s growing development portfolio and pipeline, in turn, should provide LDK Solar with enhanced downstream benefit to its vertical integration model through module supply for large-scale projects.
“We are very pleased to have this transaction concluded,” said Xiaofeng Peng, Chairman and CEO for LDK Solar. “SPI provides a strong strategic complement to our downstream vertical integration opportunities and provides LDK Solar and SPI the opportunity to jointly explore opening manufacturing operations in the U.S. to further enhance SPI’s competitive advantage in North America.”
“We are happy to be part of the growing LDK global team,” said Steve Kircher CEO for SPI. “The strength of our newly combined vertical platform should provide us significant competitive advantages going forward,” Mr. Kircher concluded.
The terms of the investment are more particularly detailed in the Stock Purchase Agreement dated January 5, 2011, as filed in the Company’s report on Form 8-K with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 6, 2011.
About LDK Solar (NYSE: LDK):
LDK Solar Co., Ltd. (NYSE: LDK) is a leading vertically integrated manufacturer of photovoltaic (PV) products and a leading manufacturer of solar wafers in terms of capacity. LDK Solar manufactures polysilicon, mono and multicrystalline ingots, wafers, modules and cells. The Company also engages in project development activities in selected segments of the PV market. Through its broad product offering, LDK Solar provides its customers with a full spectrum of PV solutions. LDK Solar's headquarters and manufacturing facilities are located in Hi-Tech Industrial Park, Xinyu City, Jiangxi Province in the People's Republic of China. LDK Solar's office in the United States is located in Sunnyvale, California. For more information about LDK Solar and its products, please visit www.ldksolar.com.
Capital Resources and Material Known Facts on Liquidity
In the short-term we do not expect any material change in the mix or relative cost of our capital resources. As of December 31, 2010, we had approximately $1,441,000 in cash and cash equivalents, approximately $1,344,000 of restricted cash held in our name in interest bearing accounts consisting of approximately $285,000 with the lender financing our power generation facility and approximately $1,004,000 held by the lender of our customer as collateral for such loan, approximately $35,000 held by our bank as collateral for our merchant account transactions and approximately 20,000 as collateral for a credit card issued to the Company, accounts receivable of approximately $5,988,000 and costs and estimated earnings in excess of billings on uncompleted contracts of approximately $2,225,000. Our focus will be to continue development and manufacturing of our solar modules and racking systems.
The current economic conditions of the U.S. market, coupled with reductions of solar incentives in Europe have presented challenges to us in generating the revenues and or margins necessary for us to create positive working capital. While our sales pipeline of solar system construction projects continues to grow such projects encumber associated working capital until project completion or earlier customer payment, and our revenues are highly dependent on third party financing for these projects. As a result, revenues remain difficult to predict and we cannot assure shareholders and potential investors that we will be successful in generating positive cash from operations. Knowing that revenues are unpredictable, our strategy has been to manage spending tightly by reducing to a core group of employees in our China and U.S. offices, and to outsource the majority of our construction workforce.
Over the past three years we have sustained losses from operations and have relied on equity financing to provide working capital. We have been actively working with additional potential investors to ensure that we have additional equity available to us as needed. In addition, we are working on sources of project financing as well as asset backed credit facilities. The issues involved with closing and receiving payment on two major projects (Aerojet 1 and Aerojet 2) have severely hindered the Company’s ability to create and leverage working capital. The Company had an outstanding receivable of approximately $9 million dollars from its customer, Solar Tax Partners 1, LLC (“STP1”) on the Aerojet 1 project for the first eight months or 2010 which it originally expected to collect in December, 2009. The impact of waiting for that working capital required the Company to optimize cash on hand and negotiate extended terms with our suppliers resulting in increased accounts payable. The limits on available working capital caused by these events and inability to obtain additional credit from our suppliers impacted the Company’s ability to start and complete projects per original schedules. The inability of our customer to complete its purchase of the Aerojet 2 project, resulting in the Company taking possession of the project and recording it as an asset held for sale caused further constraints on our working capital. The company received payment for the majority of the outstanding receivable due on Aerojet 1 from STP1 in August 2010, allowing the Company to satisfy obligations to suppliers and enabled more effective management working capital. To mitigate future impact on working capital requirements the Company is planning to finance future projects through construction financing or payment terms from the end customer.
We believe the funds generated by the collection of our accounts receivable, notes receivable and costs and estimated earnings in excess of billings on uncompleted contracts, the anticipated revenues of our operations, the sale of our asset held for sale and reductions in operating expenses, continued management of our supply chain, and potential funds available to us through debt and equity financing, are adequate to fund our anticipated cash needs through the next twelve months. We anticipate that we will retain all earnings, if any, to fund future growth in the business. Although we believe we have effectively implemented cash management controls to meet ongoing obligations, there are no assurances that we will not be required to seek additional working capital through debt or equity offerings. If such additional working capital is required, there are no assurances that such financing will be available on favorable terms to the Company, if at all.
Additionally, subsequent to year end, on January 5, 2011, we entered into a Stock Purchase Agreement (‘SPA”) with LDK Solar Co., Ltd. (“LDK”) in connection with the sale and issuance by the Company of convertible Series A Preferred Stock and Common Stock. At the first closing on January 10, 2011, we issued 42,835,947 shares of our common stock at $0.25 per share and received proceeds net of expenses of approximately $10,505,000. At the second closing, expected to occur before the end of the first quarter of 2011, we will issue 20,000,000 shares of our Series A Preferred Stock receiving proceeds of approximately $22,228,000.
from the 10k filed 3/14
wishful thinking imo
if they don't file by midnight tonight, they will have to file for a 15 day extension sometime tomorrow.
'dems the rules
India census: population goes up to 1.21bn
31 March 2011 Last updated at 11:00 ET
India's population has grown by 181 million people over the past decade to 1.21bn, according to the 2011 census.
More people now live in India than in the United States, Indonesia, Brazil, Pakistan and Bangladesh combined.
India is on course to overtake China as the world's most populous nation by 2030, but its growth rate is falling, figures show. China has 1.3bn people.
The census also reveals a continuing preference for boys - India's sex ratio is at its worst since independence.
Female foeticide remains common in India, although sex-selective abortion based on ultrasound scans is illegal. Sons are still seen by many as wage-earners for the future.
Statistics show fewer girls than boys are being born or surviving. The gender imbalance has widened every decade since independence in 1947.
According to the 2011 census, 914 girls were born for every 1,000 boys under the age of six, compared with 927 for every 1,000 boys in the 2001 census.
"This is a matter of grave concern," Census Commissioner C Chandramauli told a press conference in the capital, Delhi.
Government officials said they would review all their policies towards this issue, which they admitted were failing.
graphic
Indians now make up 17% of the world's population. Uttar Pradesh remains its most populous state, with 199 million people.
INDIA CENSUS FACTS
* Current population: 1,210,193,422
* Males: 623,724,248
* Females: 586,469,174
* Increase 2001-2011: 181m
* 15th census since 1872
* Estimated cost 22bn rupees ($490m; £300m)
The statistics show India's massive population growing at a significant rate - 181 million is roughly equivalent to the entire population of Brazil.
But the rate of that growth is slower than at any time since 1947. The 2011 census charts a population increase of 17.6%, compared with one of 21.5% over the previous decade.
The BBC's Mark Dummett in Delhi says the slowing growth rate suggests that efforts to promote birth control and female education are working.
In the field of education there was good news, with the census showing the literacy rate going up to 74% from about 65% in the last count.
India launched the 2011 census last year. The exercise costs in the region of 22bn rupees ($490m; £300m).
Some 2.7 million officials visited households in about 7,000 towns and 600,000 villages, classifying the population according to gender, religion, education and occupation.
The exercise, conducted every 10 years, faces big challenges, not least India's vast area and diversity of cultures.
Census officials also have to contend with high levels of illiteracy and millions of homeless people - as well as insurgencies by Maoists and other rebels which have left large parts of the country unsafe.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-12916888
so much for creating green jobs
Evergreen Solar has intense meeting with Mass. legislators over layoffs
Chris Meehan
Mar 30, 2011
Yesterday (March 29), the Massachusetts Senate Committee of Post Audit and Oversight held a hearing with Evergreen Solar, Inc. (Nasdaq: ESLR) CEO Michael El-Hillow that lasted more than six hours.
The committee, chaired by State Sen. Mark Montigny (D-New Bedford), was grilling El-Hillow and Fidelity Investments President Ron O’Hanley over both companies’ plans to move jobs out of Massachusetts after receiving millions in incentives to bring jobs to the commonwealth.
Evergreen Solar was under fire for shuttering its Devens, Mass., facility, which employed 800 Massachusetts residents. The company had received $58 million in state incentives to locate the facility in the state.
In January, Evergreen Solar said it was shuttering the plant.
“We shut down Devens manufacturing facility because it couldn’t produce at a cost that was [competitive] internationally,” said Evergreen spokesperson Michael McCarthy.
Evergreen Solar has not been profitable in manufacturing its string-ribbon silicon wafering technology in the U.S. Most recently, the company reported a net loss of $411.0 million for the fourth quarter of 2010. To better compete, the company is moving all of its production to China.
At the same time, the company said it was changing its business model.
“We have transitioned it to a business model where Evergreen Solar will be a wafer company,” McCarthy said. The company now is focused on developing a standard-sized photovoltaic wafer, which McCarthy said Evergreen Solar can produce for 25 cents per watt.
During the hearing, El-Hillow told the committee that the company didn’t plan to return any of the $20 million in taxpayer cash to expand operations in Massachusetts, according to The Boston Herald.
“Quite frankly, this was not a bad deal; the citizens got their money’s worth,” he said. “But it didn’t work out.”
The company met 85 percent of its employment goals under the agreements it made with the state, according to McCarthy. The agreements are also for eight years, so the company feasibly could reach full compliance with its agreements.
Although the company is moving its silicon-wafering production to China, it will maintain its headquarters as well as its research and development offices in Massachusetts, McCarthy said.
Whether or not the state will take any actions to rescind the contracts or take back some of the incentives remains to be determined.
Sen. Montigny was unable to comment by press time.
Solar Gains Traction — Thanks to Subsidies
Wall Street Journal
* BUSINESS
* MARCH 31, 2011
GLENDALE, Ariz.—Falling solar-panel prices, generous government subsidies and rising power costs are creating a new breed of solar enthusiasts: people who are installing panels on their roof because they see it as a good investment, not because they are out to save the world.
more...
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703662804576188641442134306.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
"The economics of solar have improved significantly," says Vishal Shah, a solar equity analyst for Barclays Capital. He expects panel prices to continue heading down, as increasing competition among manufacturers squeeze profit margins and permitting costs decrease.
In the past three years, the wholesale price of panels has fallen 60% to about $1.70 per watt, he says. As they keep falling, solar power will get more competitive and require fewer subsidies. When they reach $1 per watt, "you don't even need a 30% [federal] tax credit" for a project in states with the highest electric rates to be economic. In other words, subsidies may not be needed in a few years, Mr. Shah says.
If an annual report on Form 10-K or a quarterly report on Form 10-Q is not filed within the
required time period, the issuer must file with the SEC within one business day of the due date
for the report a Form 12b-25 (designated as an “NT 10-K” or “NT 10-Q” in the EDGAR filing
system) disclosing its inability to file the report timely and the reason for the delay. If a Form 10-
K or Form 10-Q cannot be filed timely, because the company is unable to file “without
unreasonable effort or expense”, the report will be deemed to be filed on the filing due date if
the company timely files a Form 12b-25, and then files the report not later that the 15th calendar
day (for a 10-K) or 5th calendar day (for a 10-Q) following the due date for the missed report.
10-K: for Fiscal Year Ended 12/31/10 due Thursday, March 31, 2011
http://www.secfile.net/SEC_calendar.htm#EDGAR_Filing_Deadlines_for_Quarterly_and_Annual_Reports
interesting
the SEC says 90days
31 + 28 + 31 = today!
http://www.sec.gov/answers/form10k.htm
http://biz.yahoo.com/research/earncal/20110331.html
I don't see anything yet
FANC got a 255k print after the close the POS
3:30pm and no 10k
Management talks about keeping shareholders informed. I wonder if they give a rats ass about retail shareholders. Its the big money investors that puts cash in the the company pockets. Those are the investors they care about. The ones that DUMP on us.
These sellers know more about the company than we ever will. An they are saying "sell"
Hard to believe this is the culmination of our (manipulated) uptrend. Management had 90days to file that 10k - What's the f'ing delay?
NITE folded on a 10k print - NITE's bids are for manipulation purposes only. He was the axe here for all of 2010. He's not interested in buying any CSKH paper.
followed by a 1k ask print, lol.
LDK bought 70% of SOPW
Item 5.01 Changes in Control of Registrant
As previously disclosed, on January 5, 2011, Solar Power, Inc. (the “Company”) entered into a Stock Purchase Agreement (the “Purchase Agreement”) with LDK Solar Co., Ltd., a company incorporated under the laws of Cayman Islands (the “Purchaser”), in connection with the sale and issuance by the Company of Series A Preferred Stock and Common Stock along with the sale and transfer to Purchaser of certain manufacturing equipment of the Company. On January 10, 2011, the Company and the Purchaser consummated the transactions contemplated by the First Closing (as defined in the Purchase Agreement) whereby the Company issued to the Purchaser 42,835,947 shares of Common Stock for an aggregate purchase price equal to $10,708,987. Such shares represent approximately 45% of the Company’s outstanding Common Stock.
On March 31, 2011, the Company and Purchaser consummated the transactions contemplated by the Second Closing (as defined in the Purchase Agreement) whereby the Company issued 20,000,000 shares of Series A Preferred Stock for an aggregate purchase price of $22,227,669. Each share of Series A Preferred Stock has a dividend preference equal to $0.04 per annum and shall automatically be converted into approximately 4.44552 shares of common stock (subject to adjustments) upon the Company amending its Articles of Incorporation to increase the authorized number of shares of common stock in an amount sufficient to effect the conversion of the Series A Preferred Stock. Each share of Series A Preferred Stock is entitled to a number of votes per share equal to the number of shares of common stock that the Series A Preferred Stock would convert into.
On an as converted, fully diluted basis, the aggregate number of voting shares the Purchaser owns is approximately seventy percent (70%) of the issued and outstanding common stock of the Company. Therefore, as of March 31, 2011, the Purchaser obtained voting control of the Company.
Pursuant to the Purchase Agreement, two directors will be appointed by the Company with consent of the Purchaser. Such directors will be appointed not earlier than ten days following the mailing of Schedule 14f-1 to the shareholders of the Company providing notice of the proposed change of a majority of the Company’s directors. Upon appointment of such directors, Timothy Nyman, Ronald Cohan and D. Paul Regan shall resign as directors of the Company.
Item 8.01 Other Events.
On March 31, 2011, Solar Power issued a press release announcing the execution of the Purchase Agreement. The full text of the press release is set forth as Exhibit 99.1 attached to this report.
Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.
(d) Exhibits.
LDK Solar Finalizes Acquisition of 70% of Solar Power, Inc. for $33 Million
Today : Thursday 31 March 2011
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LDK Solar Co., Ltd. ("LDK Solar") (NYSE:LDK), a leading manufacturer of multicrystalline solar wafers and PV products, and Solar Power, Inc. (“SPI”) (OTCBB:SOPW), announced today that LDK Solar has finalized its acquisition of a 70% interest in SPI for approximately $33 million. LDK paid an initial $10 million in January and today announced it has finalized the transaction with a second payment of $23 million.
The transaction adds significant financial strength to SPI’s balance sheet, enabling the acceleration of the development of its project pipeline, which primarily consists of utility-scale power plants and commercial/industrial distributed generation systems. SPI’s growing development portfolio and pipeline, in turn, should provide LDK Solar with enhanced downstream benefit to its vertical integration model through module supply for large-scale projects.
“We are very pleased to have this transaction concluded,” said Xiaofeng Peng, Chairman and CEO for LDK Solar. “SPI provides a strong strategic complement to our downstream vertical integration opportunities and provides LDK Solar and SPI the opportunity to jointly explore opening manufacturing operations in the U.S. to further enhance SPI’s competitive advantage in North America.”
“We are happy to be part of the growing LDK global team,” said Steve Kircher CEO for SPI. “The strength of our newly combined vertical platform should provide us significant competitive advantages going forward,” Mr. Kircher concluded.
The terms of the investment are more particularly detailed in the Stock Purchase Agreement dated January 5, 2011, as filed in the Company’s report on Form 8-K with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 6, 2011.
they went to the trough for more money
We are offering $125,000,000 aggregate principal amount of our % convertible subordinated notes due 2016, which we refer to herein as the convertible notes. We will pay interest on the convertible notes on April 15 and October 15 of each year, beginning October 15, 2011. The convertible notes will mature on April 15, 2016.
convertible notes are TOXIC dilution. This company is toast imo
Net loss attributable to common stockholders $ (15,801,000)
ten bagger dreamers I'm afraid.
The better the company the less the interest. I-hub is mostly penny investors, or should I say sub-penny, or micro-penny, lol.
CSKH was looking good to go from bad boy to good guy, until yesterday anyway.
cup and handle breakdown? Golden cross poof? 10K a dud? more dilution coming?
Solar: Jefferies Sees U.S. Share Of Demand Rising This Year
March 31, 2011, 12:25 PM ET
By Tiernan Ray
Jefferies & Co. solar analyst Jesse Pichel this morning picks through some of the data from the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) report from earlier this month on U.S. demand for solar.
Pichel notes that photovoltaic installations in the U.S. last year doubled from 2009, to 878 megawatts, with installations in the States set to rise double the market rate of 16% to 24% this year, according to SEIA.
Out of a total expected 18 gigawatt market, by Pichel’s estimate, that would give the U.S. 10% of global demand, up from about 5% in 2010.
More important, Pichel sees “steady demand” in the U.S. thanks to a broadening of the market to include not just utilities but also residential and commercial. Residential and utility should be “strong” this year, with “some weakness” in commercial installations, he writes.
Pichel notes that such growth depends on the U.S. Department of Energy’s “Loan Guarantee program” getting financed. He adds, “The Treasury Cash Grant program is also expiring at the end of 2011, furthering concerns that 2012 may be weak,” though his belief is, “efforts are underway to extend the Cash Grant program, or to even make it permanent as a cash refund.”
Pichel notes President Obama’s prominent support for solar and renewables in a talk just yesterday at Georgetown University.
http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2011/03/31/solar-jefferies-sees-u-s-share-of-demand-rising-this-year/?mod=yahoobarrons