Solar Companies have proliferated in the last decade as the Solar Energy Industry has seen a 50% CAGR in the past 10 years exploding by almost 150% in 2010.Falling costs of Solar Energy ensures that Solar Industry will continue to grow at a 25-30% growth rate in the next 5-10 years as well as Solar Energy comes to Grid Parity.A massive variety of solar stocks can be found on different stocks exchanges in the US,Europe and Asia.From the largest solar company in the world with a market capitalization of $15 billion First Solar to penny stocks,there is a huge menu of solar stocks to buy from.Good Solar Stocks can also be found in Europe which is the largest marketplace for solar panels.Asian companies are also listed in the Hong Kong Stock Exchange as Asians are producing about 80-85% of the global supply of solar panels.Here is a list of the solar stocks in different stock exchanges

USA Stock Exchange

Chinese Companies

USA Solar Power Companies

Solar ETFs

1. Guggenheim Solar  TAN
2. Market Vectors Solar Energy KWT

Canadian Stock Exchange

5N Plus

European Stock Exchanges

Germany

1. Solarworld
2. Q-Cells
3. Centrosolar
4. Sunways
5. Colexon Energy
6. Solar-Fabrik
7. Wacker
8. Solon
9. Bosch
10. Phoenix Solar
11. Juwi Solar
12. Solaria Energie (Spain)
13. Kerself (Italy)
14. Renewable Energy Corporation (Norway)

Solar Inverters

SMA-Solar

Solar Equipment Stocks

1. Meyer Burger
2. Oerlikon
3. Roth&Rau
4. Centrotherm
5. Manz Automation

Asian Stock Exchange

Hong Kong

1. GCL Poly
2. Trony Solar
3. Singyes Solar
4. Comtec Solar

Taiwan

1. E-Ton
2. Gintech
3. Motech
4. Del Solar
5. Neo Solar

India

1. Moser Baer
2. IndoSolar
3. XL Power

South Korea

1. OCI Chemicals
2. Woongjin Conway

Japan

1. Sharp
2. Kyocera
3. Panasonic
4. Mitsubishi
5. Toshiba
6. Solar Frontier

Summary

There are many other solar stocks that I have not listed here such as Samsung,LG,TSMC which are MNC Conglomerates which has recently made major investments in Solar Energy.There are also many tiny solar stocks that are listed on the pink sheets.

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