Ahead of the Bell: First Solar shares tumble (AP via Yahoo! Finance)

Shares of First Solar Inc. tumbled in premarket trading on Friday a day after the nation's largest solar panel maker said its second-quarter profit surged, but disappointed investors with a rebate program that analysts say will hurt earnings results in the second half of the year.

EDFEN & First Solar To Build 100-MW Solar Manufacturing Plant in France (Renewable Energy World)

EDF Energies Nouvelles (EDFEN) and First Solar Inc. have announced a venture to build France's largest solar panel manufacturing plant. With an initial annual capacity of more than 100 megawatts (MW), the plant will produce solar panels made with First Solar's advanced, thin-film photovoltaic technology. At full production, projected for the second half of 2011, the plant could employ more than ...

SunPower Reaches Manufacturing Deal with Jabil Circuit (Renewable Energy World)

SunPower Corp. has signed a multi-year solar panel manufacturing agreement with Jabil Circuit Inc., to build panels for SunPower's North American solar market. Jabil will begin manufacturing panels for SunPower in Mexico in the second half of 2009.

Samsung Blue Earth Phone Leaked- New Samsung Cell Phones

February 13, 2009 by from Syndicated News Feed  
Filed under Home Solar News

Samsung lunch new Blue Earth Phone. It’s Samsung’s new solar-powered mobile phone. Blue Earth is a round cell phone with a solar panel on the back. so you can use it anytime under sunlight. But Samsung should release the Blue Earth sometime in the second half of 2009.