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Winners
and losers: 22nd - 29th
June 2007
THE WINNERS
1.
DayStar Technologies +39.07%
On
26th June, Daystar jumped on news that it may have
secured a $25m cash infusion to construct a 25 MW
production line in Santa Clara. DayStar makes copper
indium gallium selenide cells, or CIGS, a thin-film
flexible solar cell that can bend. Of critical interest
to investors was that GE
has identified DayStar as a potential vendor for
a DoE multi-million dollar funded solar cell research
programme.
2.
Ceres
Power +25.68%
Ceres
Power, a product development company specialising
in small scale distributed power generation using
intermediate temperature solid oxide fuel cells is
very closer to a full commercial rollout of its product
and already has commercial development programmes
in place with British
Gas and EDF.
3.
Hoku
Scientific +23.23%
Hoku
Scientific announced on June 24th that they would
remain in Hawaii despite its plan to sell its solar
module manufacturing facility in Kapolei. The company
plans instead to buy modules from other contractors,
eliminating the need for a factory in Kapolei whilst
realising a
real estate gain from the sale of Kapolei.
4.
Petratherm
+22.55%
Petratherm
appears to be still riding the wave of investor interest
in Australian geothermal stocks, following strong
political backing from the Australian Opposition leader,
Kevin Rudd. More recently, they can point to a
new venture outside of Australia in the Canary Islands
using their technology.
5.
Roth
& Rau AG +20.91%
Roth
& Rau AG can point to a
five-fold increase in orders for the first 5 months
of 2007, compared to the year before. Roth & Rau's
photovoltaic business focuses on providing antireflective
coating facilities for crystalline silicon solar cells.
With a global market share (excluding Japan) of around
60 %, Roth & Rau can claim to be the global market
leader in this area.
THE
LOSERS
1.
Biofuels
Corp -52.85%
Biofuels
Corp are very close to throwing the towel in. On June
26th, the company announced that it faced
"unavoidable" bankruptcy without a massive
financial overhaul. The company is set to delist on
the 2nd of August.
2.
Cosan
SA -11.94%
Cosan
SA, a refiner of sugar and ethanol from sugarcane
which it also cultivates and harvests, may be party
to some investor concern about a possible
bubble in Brazilian ethanol.
3.
Catalytica
Energy Systems
-11.11%
CES
develops fuel processing systems for fuel cell applications
in stationary, auxiliary, and back-up power applications.
They have also recently become involved in a joint
biomass
power venture.
4.
Solar²
AG
-9.35%
Solar2
AG - pronounced as "solar squared" in English
or "solar hoch zwei" in German - is unusually
a supplier and installer of solar thermal and solar
pv systems.
5.
Voller
Energy
-8.16%
Voller
Energy, a microcap fuel cell stock, has just started
sea
trials for its 1 KW fuel cell for yachts.
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FORTHCOMING
COMPANY DATES
COMPANY - Action
- Effective
Dates mm/dd/yyyy)
ECO
SECURITIES EQUITY
OFFERING 07/03/2007
CHINA
BIODIESEL CASH
DIVIDEND 07/04/2007
KUALA
LUMPUR KEPONG CASH
DIVIDEND 07/12/2007
MEDIS
TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATE
MEETING07/17/2007
MOTECH
INDUSTRIES CORPORATE
MEETING 07/17/2007
SUZLON
ENERGY CORPORATE
MEETING 07/25/2007
EVERGREEN
SOLAR CORPORATE
MEETING 07/25/2007
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Dan Lewis, Editor. |
