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.
Obama goverment solar panel.
Department of housing and urban development hud and the environmental protection agency epa to support greater solar deployment.
The stimulus funded loan which was originally applied for in 2006 under the bush administration was guaranteed by the department of energy.
Department of agriculture usda u s.
5 directing the federal government and all its entities to source 20 percent of their energy from renewable energy like solar power wind and other sources by the end of the decade.
Solar powering america is an interagency initiative between the u s.
In 2009 the california based green energy solar panel manufacturer solyndra received a 535 million loan.
The second company is abound solar manufacturing which will manufacture.
Obama referred to solyndra s loan at an oct.
President obama exaggerated when defending his administration s approval of a 535 million loan guarantee to solyndra a now defunct solar company.
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Barack obama was not vetted before being elected president and neither was solyndra before mr.
Obama gave 500 000 000 that s a half billion in taxpayer money to solyndra who shut its doors and laid off 1100 workers in august 2011 after billions in losses due to failure to make a solar product that works.
President obama touted abound in a july 3 2010 announcement of a 2 billion investment in green energy projects.
A 1 billion solar plant was obsolete before it ever went online solarreserve s crescent dunes received backing from citigroup and the obama energy department but couldn t keep pace with.
President barack obama d issued a presidential memorandum on dec.
The move was hailed by conservation organizations as well as renewable energy advocates.
Obama threw that taxpayer money down the drain of unproven technology.