25 Most Important Alternative Energy Companies

Recently I have been doing research on green energy companies and their stocks. The following article is the one I came across today while DOW lost 165.07. The solar energy stocks especially suffered a loss because of selloff for profit and run!

Alternative energy is big business — and getting bigger. The industry includes hundreds of companies that make a piece of the continuously expanding jigsaw puzzle that is the alt energy space. Rather than trying to pick winners and losers — which at this point is probably impossible — we’ve tried instead to identify the 25 companies we think will shape the alt energy industry for the next three to five years.

Here is the list:

1. First Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR)
2. SunPower Corp. (NASDAQ: SPWRA & SPWRB)
3. Suntech Power Holdings Co. Ltd. (NYSE: STP)
4. Trina Solar Ltd. (NYSE: TSL)
5. Yingli Green Energy Holding Co. Ltd. (NYSE: YGE)
6. LDK Solar Co. Inc. (NYSE: LDK)
7. Solar Millennium AG (OTC: SMLNF.pk)
8. BrightSource Energy (privately held)
9. General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE)
10. Vestas Wind Systems A/S (OTC: VWSYF.pk)
11. Siemens AG (NYSE: SI)
12. China Longyuan Power Group Corp. Ltd. (Hong Kong)
13. ABB Ltd. (NYSE: ABB)
14. Iberdrola Renovables SA (OTC: IRVSF.pk)
15. Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile S.A. (NYSE: SQM)
16. Molycorp, Inc. (NYSE: MCP)
17. Cosan Ltd. (NYSE: CZZ)
18. Advanced Battery Technologies (NASDAQ: ABAT)
19. A123 Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: AONE)
20. Maxwell Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: MXWL)
21. Itron, Inc. (NASDAQ: ITRI)
22. American Superconductor (NASDAQ: AMSC)
23. Cree Inc. (NASDAQ: CREE)
24. Bloom Energy (privately held)
25. Areva (France-CEI)

Read more: The 25 Most Important Alternative Energy Companies - 24/7 Wall St.

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