Point Roberts, WA - January 06, 2012 - (Investorideas.com renewable energy/ green newswire) Investorideas.com, a leader in renewable energy stock research for independent investors, issues a solar investor update on recent Chinese funding and investment in the solar sector.

 January 5 th, SPI Solar (OTCBB: SOPW) announced that it has secured construction finance facilities totaling $44 million from China Development Bank ("CDB") to fund construction of solar energy facility ("SEF") projects it is working on jointly with KDC Solar in New Jersey. Separately, LDK Solar ("LDK") secured financing facilities of $20 million for two projects it is developing through Engineering, Construction and Procurement contracts with SPI in California. The LDK finance facilities will be used to fund construction costs of the California SEFs.

Point Roberts, WA - January 5, 2012 - (Investorideas.com renewable energy/green newswire) Investorideas.com, a leader in renewable energy stock research for independent investors, issues an investor alert for solar investors for Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc. (NasdaqGM: ASTI). The stock was the top percentage gainer in the sector and closed up at $0.56, up 0.14 (33.33%) on over a million shares of trading.

 Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc. (NasdaqGM: ASTI) reported that TFG Radiant Investment Group, Ltd. (TFG Radiant), is poised to increase its ownership interest in the Thornton, Colo., based solar panel manufacturer. TFG Radiant acquired approximately 20 percent of the outstanding shares of Ascent in August 2011. The increase will put TFG Radiant's ownership at approximately 41 percent.

Point Roberts, WA - January 4, 2012 (Investorideas.com renewable energy/green newswire) Investorideas.com, a leader in renewable energy stock research for independent investors, releases a trading alert for solar stocks on the move in Wednesday’s trading session.

 Several solar stocks are realizing significant gains in today's trading, two of them boosted by increased equity investments. Does this mean the beat up solar stocks are about to shine again in 2012?

 Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc. (NasdaqGM: ASTI) is trading at $0.5512, up 0.1312 (31.24%) on over 800,000 shares. The Company reported today that TFG Radiant Investment Group, Ltd. (TFG Radiant), is poised to increase its ownership interest in the Thornton, Colo., based solar panel manufacturer.

Tegal Announces Sale of Nanolayer Deposition Patent Portfolio

Patents applying to copper barrier and low-k dielectric technology still under auction

Tegal Corporation (NASDAQ:TGAL - News) today announced that it has awarded patents to multiple bidders for three of the four bid lots of Tegal’s NLD Patent Portfolio recently offered for sale for an aggregate consideration of approximately $4M. To date, approximately $3.6M has been received.

Tegal sold over 30 patents from the NLD portfolio—which includes more than 35 U.S. and international patents in the areas of pulsed-chemical vapor deposition (CVD), plasma-enhanced atomic-layer deposition (ALD) and NLD. NLD is a process technology that bridges the gap between high throughput, non-conformal chemical vapor deposition and lower throughput, highly conformal atomic layer deposition (ALD).