Yingli Green Energy

Here are the TOP 20 performing companies on the EnergyBoom Clean 100 Index during Q1 2011 (January 3 through March 31).

Solar stocks are rising as a result of growing fears around Japan's nuclear crisis.

On Monday morning, traders were betting that solar power would surge in demand as a result of nuclear fears.  As a result, industry leader, First Solar (Nasdaq: FSLR) has seen its shares increase 4.64%. 

European solar power developer and investor Solarstrom AG ("S.A.G.") has signed a long term purchase agreement with Chinese based Yingli Green Energy Holding Company Limited (NYSE:

EnergyBoom’s E•B Solar subindex, led by the Chinese low-cost solar cell and module producers, increased 5.10 percent last week.  E•B Solar beat EnergyBoom’s other four clean sector indices and all broad market indices except the Hang Seng (Hong Kong) Index which increased 7.18 percent.

Yingli Green Energy Holding Company, Ltd. (NYSE: YGE), one of the world's largest photovoltaic solar cell manufacturers, has announced it will increase its production capacity by four times as a result of intensified dem

Solar is popping in California--the United States' largest solar energy market.

In the first quarter of 2010 there have been applications for the installation of almost as many megawatts of residential, commercial, and government solar power as the entire year in 2009.