VSLR News and Press, Vivint Solar Inc. From 09/14/19

Customers have proven over and over again that they aren't particularly interested in paying cash for solar installations for their roofs and don't want to go to the work of keep track of energy assets like energy storage in the home. But if the financing package and services are right and savin...

For the past decade, the solar industry has primarily sold residential solar projects through high-touch door-to-door or telemarketing channels. Companies have to push sales to customers rather than rely on customers to pull demand , and that's caused costs for sales and marketing to rise. ...

Enphase Energy ( ENPH -9.3% ) and Solaredge Technologies ( SEDG -4.6% ) turn sharply lower after a report from Citron Research says their shares are trading at "significantly inflated multiples on peak earnings even as a very credible competitive threat is about to enter the solar inve...

Solar energy stocks have been an up-and-down segment of the market for more than a decade. The industry is growing installations rapidly, but there's so much competition and pressure to lower costs that few companies have been able to make money.  As the industry becomes more mature, I t...

Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) is making another last-gasp effort to save its solar business after CEO Elon Musk announced a relaunch over the weekend. Tesla will rent a solar system to customers in some states for as little as $50 per month and will sell a system for between $10,830 (3.8 kW) and...

Tesla ( TSLA ) launched a new solar rent product on Friday. With $100 deposit which will be applied to the first month payment and no long-term contract, this product has the potential to disrupt residential solar market. We see several solar installation companies being negatively affected ...

Sunrun (NASDAQ: RUN )  +1.9% and Vivint Solar (NYSE: VSLR )  +1.2% pre-market after KeyBanc initiates coverage of the solar names with Overweight ratings, saying recent share weakness in residential solar stocks presents an attractive entry point for investors. More news on: Su...

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Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA ) is once again offering to rent solar panels to homeowners in a bid to revive its slumping home solar business. More news on: Tesla, Inc., Sunrun Inc., Vivint Solar, Inc., Energy stocks news, Read more ...

The U.S. imported an average of 644K kw/month of solar panels (NYSEARCA: TAN ) during the first four months of 2019, according to new data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration, an increase from ~300K kw in the months following Pres. Trump's imposition of tariffs on imported sola...