Key events in solyndra.
Obama government solar panel.
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.
Most on the right claim president obama pushed his green agenda with a blatant disregard for the california solar company s lack of financial health.
The second company is abound solar manufacturing which will manufacture.
Many on the left argue that president george w.
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.
Since the failure of solar panel company solyndra president obama s 80 billion clean technology program has begun to look like a political liability.
Bush and his republican controlled congress began the green energy loan subsidies program the energy policy act of 2005 that ultimately provided.
Some companies will fail some companies will succeed pres.
Obama but none you have backed have succeeded.
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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.
Solar powering america is an interagency initiative between the u s.
Obama referred to solyndra s loan at an oct.
President obama touted abound in a july 3 2010 announcement of a 2 billion investment in green energy projects.
Department of housing and urban development hud and the environmental protection agency epa to support greater solar deployment.
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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.