- JinkoSolar (JKS +0.5%) has agreed to buy the manufacturing assets of bankrupt rival Zhejiang Topoint. The assets include 500MW of solar cell and wafer capacity apiece, and 100MW of module capacity. Following the deal's closing, Jinko's total cell, wafer, and module production capacity will respectively stand at 2GW, 2GW and 2.1GW.
- Jinko will begin operating Topoint's assets on Jan. 13, but won't formally assume ownership until Topoint's restructuring is completed.
- The deal highlights the Chinese government's growing willingness to let struggling solar manufacturers go bankrupt, as well as its support for industry consolidation.
Below these are the Solar stocks I am follow on 2014.
Solar Stocks List
Solar Pure Plays:
•SunPower Corporation (Nasdaq: SPWR)
•First Solar Inc. (Nasdaq: FSLR)
•Evergreen Solar (Nasdaq: ESLR)
•SunTech Power Holdings (NYSE: STP)
•Trina Solar (NYSE: TSL)
•Solarfun Power Holdings (Nasdaq: SOLF)
•Canadian Solar Inc. (Nasdaq: CSIQ)
•JA Solar Holdings (Nasdaq: JASO)
•China Sunergy (Nasdaq: CSUN)
•LDK Solar (NYSE: LDK)
•ReneSola Ltd. (NYSE: SOL)
Smaller companies with Solar exposure:
•Energy Conversion Device (Nasdaq: ENER)
•Hoku Scientific (Nasdaq: HOKU)
•Daystar Technologies (Nasdaq: DSTI)
•Spire Corporation (Nasdaq: SPIR)
Solar Energy ETFs:
•Market Vectors Solar Energy ETF (KWT)
•Claymore/MAC Global Solar Energy (TAN)
Bigger companies with Solar exposure:
•MEMC Electronics (NYSE: WFR)
•General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE)
•Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA)
•British Petroleum (NYSE: BP)
•Royal Dutch Shell (NYSE: RDS-B)
•Kyocera (NYSE: KYO)
•Applied Materials (Nasdaq: AMAT)
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