Canadian Technology Stocks and Startups
Shares of Natcore Solar (TSXV:NXT) are up today after the company said it had made advances that take its black silicon solar cells to commercial levels of efficiency. Before today, Natcore says its proprietary cells achieved efficiencies of just 1%. That compared rather unfavorably to the average efficiencies for commercial cells, which came in at [...]
A summer long rally has moved the TSX a thousand points, returning it to levels it had established before a spring swoon. The resurgence has been underpinned by stronger metals prices; gold is up 11.6% since late June, and silver has gained 26% in the same period. Technology stocks seem to remain a picker’s market, [...]
It’s halfway through 2012 and the Toronto Stock Exchange, like most others worldwide, is feeling a little under the weather. The Euro debt crisis and an ongoing slide in commodities prices have contributed to a recent swoon. A minor bright spot has come from the cleantech stocks, which have outperformed the overall index for some [...]
Natcore Solar (TSXV:NXT) today announced it had agreed to take on research and development work for five solar device manufacturers. The company says the unnamed companies requested Natcore do so to determine whether its black silicon and liquid phase deposition processes can help them reduce costs and improve performance of their solar products. Natcore CEO [...]
What’s the price of a litre of gas today? No really, it’s that much? The story of our energy consumption is a complex moving target. Hike the price at the pumps in April and you’ll see more SmartCars on the road by June, and a wind farm proposal somewhere will have just increased its chances [...]
For the better part of four decades, solar energy has come in and out of fashion, like skinny ties or flambé Crêpes Suzette. But lost in the boom and bust nature of funding for the nascent technology may be the fact that the industry has made consistent incremental improvements. In 2009, First Solar (NASD:FSLR) brought [...]
Natcore Technology: Next in Solar? by Danny Deadlock Investors in solar stocks know that, to date, the story of the industry has largely about government support. Without grants, feed in tariffs and tax breaks many producing solar panels and ancillary equipment simply would not exist today. The solar industry has a well documented history as [...]
Shares of Natcore (TSXV:NXT) are on the move today after closing a private placement that injects some much needed working capital into the US based producer of solar cell equipment. Natcore will use the money for general working capital, but also to fund what it says are “requests for solar cell manufacturing facilities in the [...]
