Duke Energy Corporation (DUK) will install four solar panels in North Carolina in the first phase of its $50 million rooftop solar project. The four projects with a combined 4.6MW of annual capacity are expected to be completed by March 2010.   Duke Energy is focusing on green energy in the light of recent progress in the American Clean Energy and Security Act. The act stipulates stringent caps against carbon dioxide emissions. Also North Carolina 's renewable energy standard stipulates each public electric utility to generate a minimum of 12.5% of its North Carolina retail customers' electricity needs through new renewable energy sources or energy efficiency measures by fiscal 2021.  Duke Energy also has 634MW of land-based wind energy in Pennsylvania , Texas and Wyoming , another 99MW under construction and an additional 251MW of wind projects scheduled to begin operations in 2010. According to a report ...

March 4, 2009 ndash; As an unabashed advocate, and shareholder of LDK Solar (NYSE:LDK), have been asked lately by readers, friends and fellow investors about whether I am still positive on the company, given recent changes in the companyrsquo;s underlying fundamentals. Here is my take: The changes with LDK are not exclusive to it, but rather, pressures the whole industry is experiencing. That being said, it needs to demonstrate execution through the current tough patch and near term. The tight credit conditions are creating delays on projects and lower volume for the group. That exacerbates the amount of supply there is out there which has created some significant margin pressure as firms eat through inventory. That is a dynamic which should persist through 2009 and heading into 2010 expectations are widely that the supply imbalances are worked out of the system. In the meanwhile, LDK, et. al. have been writing ...