Looming Loss of Federal Incentives Darkens Future of Solar Power Stocks

By David Zeiler, Associate Editor, Money Morning
The reduction or elimination of several federal energy subsidy programs later this year could further dim prospects for solar power stocks - bad news for a sector already in a months-long slump.

The goal of the programs, which include loan guarantees and grants, was to support the early stage growth of renewable energy companiesuntil they became viable enough to attract conventional investors.

But several of the federal programs created as part of the 2009 stimulus package have expiration dates that assumed the economic woes of the recession would have eased by now.

Instead you have a solar power industry worried about what happens after the programs begin to expire - the first as soon as Sept. 30.

"Is the solar industry going to die if we lose these programs? No, but we're going to stall," Roger Efird, managing director of Suntech America, a subsidiary of Suntech Power Holdings Co. Ltd. (NYSE ADR: STP) told USA Today.

Helped by such programs, the solar industry grew 67% last year, but could see that growth flatten as cash-strapped governments both in the United States and Europe begin to cut back. Click here to continue reading...

Why the New IMF Chief Will Cost U.S. Taxpayers Billions, Jun 30, 2011

BY KERRI SHANNON, Associate Editor, Money Morning

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has made another mistake - a mistake that'll cost U.S. taxpayers a lot of money. 

The organization's executive board yesterday (Tuesday) selected French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde as its new leader. A U.S. pledge of support Tuesday morning secured Lagarde's approval. She already had backing from European countries and major emerging markets Brazil, Russia, and China. 

SPORTS, Athletics News, Jun 30, 2011

Texas Tech Athletics Teams Up with LIDS Sports to Run Double T Zone News/Talk 790 KFYO They also plan to have a presence for the Double T Zone in Raider Alley during home football games and kiosks at other Tech sporting events such as baseball, softball, basketball, and soccer. Texas Tech Deputy Athletics Director and CFO Bobby Gleason ... See all stories on this topic »

Only netball, women's football teams qualify for Maputo event The Citizen Daily Except for women's soccer and netball, competitors in the remaining events-- athletics, judo, cycling, swimming and table tennis-- are yet to qualify. The Tanzania Olympic Committee (TOC), the main games' coordinator, says the women's soccer team has ... See all stories on this topic »

Daniel signs up for soccer at NJC Journal-Advocate STERLING -- Michael Daniel, a 5`11" central midfielder from Thornton, CO has signed to play soccerat Northeastern Junior College this fall as the school`s athletic program welcomes in a totally newsport The 2010 Mountain Range High School graduate ... See all stories on this topic »

Maryland football wants you to refer a friend Washington Post (blog) By Dan Steinberg Maryland football sure seems serious about reversing those attendance issues from recent years. And thus, each season ticket your friends and family members purchase will earn you a $25 gift certificate toward future Maryland athletics ... See all stories on this topic »

Altamont's Yorisha Bryant named South Athlete of the Year The Birmingham News - al.com Bryant also played volleyball and soccer. When the Altamont girls soccer team needed a goalkeeper this spring, Knights Athletics Director Barry Bearden was not surprised they turned to his niece, Yorisha Bryant, although she had never played the sport ... See all stories on this topic »

Youth Sports Gazette.net Montgomery County Sports A football clinic for ages 5 to 14 will be held July 12-14 at the WSSC fields. The event will include coaches from DeMatha, Carroll, St. Francis, St. John's, Northwestern and Good Counsel high schools. A soccer clinic for ages 5 to 16 will be held from ... See all stories on this topic »

Kolkata to fight juvenile crime through football NDTV.com The six clubs are Mohun Bagan, East Bengal, George Telegraph, Mohammedan Sporting, PoliceAthletic Club and United Sports Club. The project is inspired by Kickz, an initiative that uses the power of football and appeal of professional football clubs to ... See all stories on this topic »

Romulus High School Athletic Awards Finger Lakes Times ROMULUS — The multi-talented duo of Eric Cali and Katherine Ettman were consistent stars for Romulus athletics. Cali played football, soccer, cheerleading, indoor track and field and outdoor track and field, while Ettman was in a trio of sports for ... See all stories on this topic »

Prep notes: Coaching changes at Palo Alto San Jose Mercury News By john reid Palo Alto Athletic Director Earl Hansen has hired two coaches and is looking for a third. After six seasons, Ernesto Cruz was not retained as girls soccer coach. Cruz has been replaced by Kurt Devlin, current women's soccer coach at Canada ... See all stories on this topic »

Football, meet fútbol: high school soccer co-op and youth teams will get new home Sauk Prairie Eagle But the sport won't be football, it will be fútbol. "In a way, it's kind of a homecoming for the Portage Warriors," said Jeff Garetson, president of the Portage Youth Soccer Association. Soccer has gained significant momentum in the community since ... See all stories on this topic »

Jewell cracks top 40 on list KC Community News The Learfield Sports Directors' Cup was developed as a joint effort between the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA) and USA Today. Points are awarded based on each institution's finish in up to 12 sports — six women's and ... See all stories on this topic »

College move may force high school stadium KC Community News Liberty Public Schools needs a new football stadium because of a recent move by William Jewell College into the ranks of NCAA Division II athletics, according to Cahill and Kernell. With the jump to NCAA Division II, William Jewell College will be ... See all stories on this topic »

Weightlifting Organization Modifies Clothing Rule for Muslim Woman ABC News But today, the sport's governing body ruled that she could wear a unitard, which would cover her body. (Courtesy Kulsoom Abdullah) Disputes over what female Muslim athletes can wear have arisen in soccer, swimming, track, gymnastics and, most recently, ... See all stories on this topic » ABC News

Lady Colts Stampede into the NCAA Patch.com Four recent graduates head to college with athletic scholarships for soccer and track and field. By Farah Habad | Email the author | 6:00am Tessa Runels will be attending Boston University on a 75 percent scholarship. Courtesty photo James Logan High ... See all stories on this topic »

What Others Said: Florissant Sports Are Top-Notch, Senior Pageant Coming Patch.com The Independent News reports that North County Christian School came off a successful athleticyear as well as the school celebrated five state titles in the Missouri Christian State AthleticAssociation. Soccer, both track and field teams, ... See all stories on this topic »

New Alabama law aimed at preventing brain injuries may change youthsports culture al.com (blog) It applies to a range of athletic programs, from high school football to Little League to peewee soccer programs. "Part of the main reason for this is to raise this on all our radar," said Drew Davis, a professor at the University of Alabama at ... See all stories on this topic » al.com (blog)

A Bulldog says goodbye TheHerald Al Musgrave takes a last look at a photograph hanging on his wall before taking it and others down as he packs up and prepares for retirement as Princeton's athleticdirector. BY D. CLAY BEST, Sports Editor PRINCETON - Al Musgrave wanted to ride the ... See all stories on this topic » TheHerald

Novato Notebook Marinscope Community Newspapers Peisch, a former soccer player at Fresno State who has extensive coaching experience in the sport, was the athletic director at Novato High from 2005-09 before taking the same position at Redwood. She also was a PE teacher at Novato. ... See all stories on this topic »

Sports Roundup - June 29, 2011 Cumberland Times-News For more information about the Lions or LaVale Athletic Association (LAA), visit www.lavalesports.org. NEW CREEK, W.Va. — Keyser JCP Soccer sign-ups will be held Thursday, 6 pm; and Saturday, 10 am, at the New Creek Volunteer Fire Department. ... See all stories on this topic »

SIU dontates jerseys to Kenyan schools The Southern CARBONDALE - The Southern Illinois University athletic department recently donated jerseys to three schools in Naro Moru, Kenya, for use in their soccer games. SIU Associate Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs/Dean of Students Peter Gitau, ... See all stories on this topic »

Vermont Wins Seventh Straight America East Academic Cup UVM News The Catamount women's soccer (3.47), men's basketball (3.30) and field hockey (3.34) programs had the highest team GPA among America East schools in those respective sports. The UVM men's basketball team also won the America East Regular Season Title ... See all stories on this topic »

Salisbury Graduates Sign for Athletic Scholarships Patch.com Each received four-year athletic scholarships and signed letters of intent to play in college. Baker will play soccer at the University of Richmond and Harper will play baseball at Philadelphia University. "These two young men helped contribute to ... See all stories on this topic »

Fiction with Faustine: A Journey Into The World Of Moroccan Soccer University of Washington Athletics (blog) By Athletic Communications on June 29, 2011 10:10 AM | No Comments | No TrackBacks Junior Faustine Dufka of the women's soccer team recently wrote this fictional soccer story for one of her classes. She has decided to share her piece with Husky Nation ... See all stories on this topic »

Fargo: This hacker's walk spoiled Daily News Transcript Larry Rooney (left) and Mark Whalen line up a putt the 13th hole during the Dedham High GirlsSoccer charity golf tournament at Putterham Meadows in Brookline. By Tom Fargo/Wicked Local Dedham For more than a decade, I have brought you the saga of Team ... See all stories on this topic »

Chris Cuthbert: Motivated Lion took notes to heart Stars and Stripes The three-sport athlete's numbers this year in football, basketball and soccer show just how motivated he was. In football, Cuthbert averaged 7.4 yards per carry, gaining 1126 rushing yards for the season with 13 touchdowns en route to an All-Europe ... See all stories on this topic » Stars and Stripes

LOFTY NOMINATION Yovino in running for NCAA woman of year Big Apple Soccer She was a third-team All-American selection from the National Soccer Coaches Association of America and a first-team ESPN Academic All-American selection from the College SportsInformation Directors of America. She earned the Colonial Athletic ... See all stories on this topic »

Soccer Scene: Soccer provides the best spectating American Chronicle And a basketball gym can get loud and raucous and the athletic feats unfold naked in front of you, but the sport can stutter with incessant whistles and too many timeouts. Soccer unfolds in a fast, frenetic 90 minutes interrupted only by a halftime ... See all stories on this topic »

Off-season soccer news keeping leagues engaged Florida Today In other youth soccer news, Palm Bay Youth Soccer has changed its official name to South BrevardFootball Club to help grow an already strong youth soccer organization. The club will continue to play at Palm Bay Regional Park. In a news release, ... See all stories on this topic »

Palm Coast considers recreation fees for fields, community center Daytona Beach News-Journal But Vice Mayor Frank Meeker worried the fees, such as the one for lining fields, could foul things up for sports leagues. If one soccer program pays $71 to line a field for a game on Saturday morning, why should the city charge another $71 for a ... See all stories on this topic »

Sports capsule Napa Valley Register Justin-Siena High School, a CIF Division IV member of the Marin County Athletic League, invites applications for the position of head varsity baseball coach. General administrative oversight will be received from the director of athletics. ... See all stories on this topic »

MTU honored for sports marketing UpperMichigansSource.com The bronze awards were in the categories of Sponsorship Program (WalMart Junior Hockey Night) and Season Ticket Sales Campaign (Football-Soccer Combination Season Tickets). NCAA institutions are divided into three groups based on school size and ... See all stories on this topic »

Heller an impact performer for four years with Eagles Shawnee Dispatch And Heller could boast one attribute Starling couldn't — while both were three-sport all-stars in high school, Heller did two of his three sports at once. It is because of Heller's amazing flexibility and effort that the Maranatha soccer player, ... See all stories on this topic »

Football match to be played on time despite unrest Al-Masry Al-Youm But the ministry said later in the day that it would allow the match to be played as scheduled out of respect for fans and in an effort to preserve the image of the country and its athletics. Footballcompetitions were brought to a halt during the 25 ... See all stories on this topic »

Ridgewood school board agrees to earlier cutoff time at Stevens Field NorthJersey.com The high school's soccer and lacrosse groups might use the field lights past 9 pm on about 11 occasions through the spring and fall; during the remaining four nights, the fields could be used by non-school sports groups, such as for recreation soccer ... See all stories on this topic »

Delta College hosts informational meeting for potential women's soccerplayers The Saginaw News - MLive.com Those who attend can talk with the new women's soccer team head coach Paul Stenglein, Athletic Director Greg Mallek and trainer Shelly Raube. Delta this winter announced the addition of women's soccer as part of the athletic department's restructuring. ... See all stories on this topic » The Saginaw News - MLive.com

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SPACE, Astronomy News, Jun 30, 2011

The next generation of radio astronomers El Defensor Chieftain July's "First Saturday Tour" of the Very Large Array focuses not on distant astronomical phenomena and cutting-edge discoveries in space, but instead on people — the future astronomers being groomed to follow in the footsteps of the pioneers of radio ... See all stories on this topic »

Will Newly Discovered Comet Dazzle or Disappoint in 2013? LiveScience.com This story was provided by SPACE.com, sister site to LiveScience. Joe Rao serves as an instructor and guest lecturer at New York's Hayden Planetarium. He writes aboutastronomy for The New York Times and other publications, and he is also an on-camera ... See all stories on this topic » LiveScience.com

Williams College and MIT Astronomers Observe Pluto and its Moons iBerkshires.com The consortium has the cooperation of David Tholen of the University of Hawaii's Institute forAstronomy, who provided late corrections to the position of Hydra based on Hubble SpaceTelescope observations, with the tiny motions of the stars across the ... See all stories on this topic »

Young Qataris 'need to be inspired' into astronomy Gulf Times By Peter Townson The future of space exploration in Qatar will depend on the interest of young Qataris who wish to learn more about the subject and take advantage of the country's focus on science, technology and development, a leading local scientist ... See all stories on this topic » Gulf Times

Pitt researchers tackle flood of space data with $1.6 million project PhysOrg.com (press release) Large "survey" projects have been a key development in astronomy during the past decade, allowingastronomers the world over to pore over uniformly high-quality images of deep space. Studies of distant galaxies were previously limited to a few ... See all stories on this topic »

Amateur astronomers watch asteroid "buzz" Earth Astronomy Now Online That's why the Faulkes Telescope project allocated time to Astronomy Now's equipment consultant Nick Howes and BBC Stargazing Live's Mark Thompson to collect data and image this fast-moving space rock. Asteroid 2011MD swung past the Earth on 27 June. ... See all stories on this topic » Astronomy Now Online

Rare Venus occultation tomorrow Daily Pioneer ... Paranjpye of Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics told PTI. In the national capital, Venus will be covered by the bright edge of the Moon at about 13:18:59 PM and emerge from its dark side at 14:41:55 PM, CB Devgun of SPACE said. ... See all stories on this topic »

Will humans come into contact with an alien civilization by 2031? DigitalJournal.com Reuters first reported that during an international forum on extraterrestrial life, director of the Russian Academy of Sciences' Applied Astronomy Institute, Andrei Finkelstein, boldly stated that by the year 2031 we will have encountered alien ... See all stories on this topic » DigitalJournal.com

Vortex Galaxy Live Wallpaper for Android V3.co.uk The Galaxis live wallpaper does look good and work well, and should suit people that are interested in space and astronomy as well as those that just like to look at nice images. The application is optimised for use on tablets, which is good ... See all stories on this topic » V3.co.uk

Sun is the star at Gibraltar Point Skegness Standard Theose who attended were treated to a view of a sun spot and huge 'prominences' as large as three or four Earths, which stretched away from the surface into out space.Astronomer Paul Money then gave an illustrated talk about the Sun, and the progress... See all stories on this topic » Skegness Standard

Star Party slated for this weekend White Mountain Independent See Saturn's rings and moons, the International Space Station pass overhead, sunlight glint off the solar panels of Iridium satellites, star clusters, galaxies and nebula galore. Meet your neighborhood amateur astronomers and see the sights through ... See all stories on this topic »

Lincoln school opens £1.4 million science centre with planetarium This is Lincolnshire Primary and secondary school pupils from Lincolnshire and across the country can use the facilities to help further their understanding of space and astronomy. Head teacher Ian Jones said the centre was a very exciting educational development. ... See all stories on this topic »

Awesomely weird expanding halo of light seen from Hawaii Discover Magazine (blog) I first saw this video on Starship Asterix, the discussion forum for the wildly popularAstronomy Picture of the Day website. The conversation there about this event is going pretty well, and I think this whole thing has been nailed down to a ... See all stories on this topic » Discover Magazine (blog)

Russian Physicist Awarded a Kyoto Prize Russia-InfoCenter ... was awarded for the theory of fluctuations in space microwave background radiation, which allowed better understanding of how the universe expanded after the Big Bang. Another reason for awarding is Suniaev's contribution to high-energy astronomy. See all stories on this topic » Russia-InfoCenter

Cruising in the ruins of the university Wired (blog) Medieval university studies were ostensibly contained by the trivium (grammar, logic, and rhetoric) and quadrivium (arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy), but the meanings of, and divisions between, these subjects were under constant ... See all stories on this topic »

Tompkins health watch: Ithaca woman races for Crohn's cure Ithaca Journal Mulvanerton is associate director of the Center for Radiophysics and Space Research and the Department of Astronomy at Cornell University. Cayuga Addiction Recovery Services (CARS) offers same-day addiction recovery and chemical abuse services at its ... See all stories on this topic »

Neutron star bites off more than it can chew Astronomy Magazine ESA-C. Carreau The European Space Agency's (ESA) XMM-Newton space observatory has watched a faint star flare up at X-ray wavelengths to almost 10000 times its normal brightness.Astronomers believe the outburst was caused by the star trying to eat a ... See all stories on this topic »

Balboa Park After Dark: 5 Ways to Get Social this Summer SanDiego.com Inside the Fleet's Heikoff Dome Theater, expert astronomers describe the sky and present on special topics; upcoming topics include "Summer Solstice and Constellations" on July 6 and "The Milky Way" on August 3. The more social part comes before the ... See all stories on this topic » SanDiego.com

Asteroid Zips Past Earth, Avoiding Collision PC Magazine For a time, astronomy fans might have been able to view it via a modest-sized telescope, according to NASA. Those fearing a real-life space disaster movie here on Earth should stop worrying. NASA said the probability of a near-Earth object (NEO) like ... See all stories on this topic »

Space Shuttle Atlantis Launch Scheduled for July 8: NASA eWeek More than 2000 experiments have been conducted on the shuttles in the fields of Earth, biological and materials sciences and astronomy. In launch configuration, the space shuttle, external tank, twin solid rocket boosters, and the three space shuttle ... See all stories on this topic »

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