Department of housing and urban development hud and the environmental protection agency epa to support greater solar deployment.
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Some companies will fail some companies will succeed pres.
Solyndra the solar panel manufacturer who took more than 500 million from president obama s stimulus then went bust sticking taxpayers for the loss lied to federal officials to secure the loan.
President obama exaggerated when defending his administration s approval of a 535 million loan guarantee to solyndra a now defunct solar company.
The second company is abound solar manufacturing which will manufacture.
Key events in solyndra.
Obama sharply disagrees and used the world s largest solar power plant of its kind with one million solar panels dotting the desert here to assert it is his critics who are out of touch with reality.
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Solyndra a california based manufacturer of rooftop solar panels opened in 2005 and in 2009 became the obama administration s first recipient of an energy loan guarantee to the tune of 535 million meant to help minimize the risk to venture capital firms that were backing the solar start up.
Abound solar received a 400 million federal loan guarantee but its product was defective producing only a fraction of its intended wattage with solar panels catching on fire.
President barack obama has put public lands at the center of his administration s climate plan telling the interior department to approve 20 000 megawatts of solar wind and geothermal energy.
Many on the left argue that president george w.
Obama referred to solyndra s loan at an oct.
The obama administration gave solyndra a 535 million loan guarantee to manufacture solar panels but the company had to file for bankruptcy in 2011.
Bush and his republican controlled congress began the green energy loan subsidies program the energy policy act of 2005 that ultimately provided.
President obama touted abound in a july 3 2010 announcement of a 2 billion investment in green energy projects.
Solar powering america is an interagency initiative between the u s.
Since the failure of solar panel company solyndra president obama s 80 billion clean technology program has begun to look like a political liability.