** Shares of clean energy firms rise premarket as U.S.
Senate Democrats strike climate deal
** Democratic Senator Joe Manchin, a key swing vote, told
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Weds he will now support
proposal for new climate change spending urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL1N2Z9044
** Manchin said bill would invest in hydrogen, nuclear
power, renewables, fossil fuels and energy storage, and contains
tax credits to build manufacturing plants for wind turbines and
solar panels
** Invesco Solar ETF TAN.P up ~5% before the bell
** Solar stocks rise: China's JinkoSolar JKS.N 4%,
Solaredge SEDG.O 5%, Enphase ENPH.O 4%, First Solar FSLR.O
~10%, Sunpower SPWR.O 12%, Sunrun RUN.O 11%, Sunnova Energy
NOVA.N 13%
** Maxeon Solar Technologies MAXN.O and Array Technologies
ARRY.O up 4% and 10%, respectively
** iShares Global Clean Energy ETF ICLN.O gains 4%
premarket
** Renewable/alt-energy firms climb: Plug Power PLUG.O
13%, FuelCell FCEL.O 13%, Bloom Energy BE.N 10%, Clean
Energy Fuels CLNE.O 4%, Fluence Energy FLNC.O 10%
** NextEra Energy NEE.N , wind and solar energy producing
giant, up >3% before the bell
(Lance Tupper is a Reuters market analyst. The views expressed
are his own)
((lance.tupper@thomsonreuters.com
lance.tupper@tr.com 1-332-219-1430))