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Anti-Dumping Duties Will Hurt The US Solar Industry

Roy L Hales — Mon, 29 Dec 2014 20:20:19 +0000

According to Jigar Shah, anti-dumping duties and tariffs invite retaliation, and escalate a global trade war which benefits no one in the solar industry

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The DOE Loan Program Office, A Government Success Story

Roy L Hales — Sun, 27 Apr 2014 17:00:57 +0000

Originally published on the ECOreport. The Loan Program Office’s (LPO) success rate is impressive by any standard. Given that it works with businesses that find it difficult to obtain bank loans, it is nothing short of phenomenal. Tesla, America’s rapid deployment of utility-scale solar PV, and the first US-produced battery packs are among the LPO’s

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Did 60 Minutes Read “How To Write A Hit Piece On The Solar Industry”

Zachary Shahan — Mon, 06 Jan 2014 21:54:30 +0000

I already wrote all I think I needed to write about the 60 Minutes episode that ran last night. Frankly, we have thousands of articles that tell the obvious true story — cleantech is growing fast and doing excellently. However, one of our readers, Carter Lavin (@CarterLavin), tweeted me last night to remind me of an excellent

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Tesla’s Early Loan Repayment Gets Props From Energy Dept

Tina Casey — Thu, 23 May 2013 12:00:45 +0000

The US electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla Motors announced this week that it has paid off its federal clean energy loan years earlier than required, and brand new Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Ernest Moniz could not resist a little celebration at the expense of the loan program’s critics. In one of his first press releases

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DOE Renewable Energy Loan Program Has Created 20,000 Jobs (Way Beyond Solyndra)

Guest Contributor — Thu, 09 May 2013 18:13:16 +0000

This article was originally published on Climate Progress. By Jeff Spross The Department of Energy’s Loan Guarantee Program was started in 2005 under the Bush Administration, but ramped up thanks to the 2009 stimulus passed by President Obama and the Democrats. It has gotten a bad rap ever since the high-profile failure of Solyndra, one of the solar tech

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Clean Energy Scores Highest Documented Rate of Return of Any Federal Program

Guest Contributor — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 23:51:30 +0000

This article below is reposted with permission from Climate Progress: By Joe Romm This excerpt from a 2011 post is relevant again today as advanced battery maker A-123 Systems files for bankruptcy protection…. You can read the Department of Energy response here. The National Academy of Sciences concluded in 2001 that a handful of clean energy technologies returned about

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Debunking Romney’s $90 Billion Lie

Zachary Shahan — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 21:29:00 +0000

Editor’s note: Jeremy Bloom of sister site Red, Green, and Blue has written a great debunking of Mitt Romney’s $90 billion lie (reposted below). That’s reposted below. Of note, however, is that it’s not just us ‘green’ sites flabbergasted by Romney’s absurd lies regarding cleantech. Among many others, the Washington Post debunked some of these lies while

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Yikes! Zombie Solar Projects Could Rise from the Dead!

Tina Casey — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 15:00:59 +0000

The impending Zombie Apocalypse is real and it's coming to a solar power project near you! At least, that's what a group of four conservative organizations is saying in a new statement. The foursome is concerned that the proposed "No More Solyndras Act" does not go far enough to choke off federal support for new energy projects that are already in the Department of Energy's loan pipeline, enabling the survival of "a number of the 'zombie' projects that would be allowed to live." Sounds like the elevator pitch for a Grade B zombie flick, right? And what's all this about No More Solyndras not going far enough?

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5 Things to Know about Solyndra in 2012 Election Cycle

Stephen Lacey — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 11:00:17 +0000

This article was originally published on Climate Progress. It has been republished here with full permission. One year ago today, the solar manufacturer Solyndra filed for bankruptcy after receiving a $527 million loan guarantee. The bankruptcy set off a political firestorm in Congress, and eventually worked its way into the presidential campaign. Today, the

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Intersolar North America 2012: Solar Gets Down to Business

Tom Schueneman — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 11:01:45 +0000

The Intersolar North America Conference in San Francisco has wrapped for another year, and if last year’s theme in my post-show commentary was “Solar is Ready to Launch,” then this year is “Solar Gets Down to Business!” This year was slightly smaller than last year with fewer exhibitors (though, still upwards of 600+ companies were represented),

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Solar Energy Industries Association Statement on Proposed “No More Solyndras Act”

Guest Contributor — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 18:53:31 +0000

Another baseless attack on the solar industry, a highly successful industry in the US with over 100,000 employees and over 5,000 companies, has popped up in Congress. Of course, it is named after one of the very few failures in the industry — Solyndra. Here’s a response from SEIA: WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S.

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5 Things to Know about Clean Energy Investments before Yet Another Pointless Political Hearing

Stephen Lacey — Wed, 16 May 2012 00:14:20 +0000

In an attempt to keep the political war against renewable energy in the headlines, Republicans are holding another hearing to question the value of government investments in the sector. Looks like ten political sideshows on Solyndra weren’t enough. If tomorrow morning’s hearing were being used as a chance to objectively assess where the industry stands, that would be

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Federal Loans & Loan Guarantees — Huge Benefit, Low & Predictable Cost (New Analysis)

Zachary Shahan — Mon, 14 May 2012 10:00:23 +0000

Check out this great post by John Griffith and Richard Caperton of the Center for American Progress (via Climate Progress): The U.S. government is arguably the largest and most influential financial institution in the world, with about $2.7 trillion outstanding in loans and loan guarantees. Among other things, these federal credit programs help college

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Small Business Owners: Federal Clean Energy Investment Creates Jobs, Growth; EPA Emissions Regs a Good Thing

Andrew — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 14:07:45 +0000

US small business owners support government clean energy investment, EPA CO2 emissions regulations and ending oil-and-gas industry subsidies, but who's listening on Capitol Hill

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A (Non-)Loan Guarantee Non-Scandal with Another Solar Company ($2 Billion Conservative Media Mistake)

Zachary Shahan — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 14:07:39 +0000

First of all, it’s important for anyone not familiar with the solar industry to know that it has been the fastest-growing industry in the US recently, and with this fast growth comes a lot of change — costs dropping fast, some technologies improving, other technologies being priced out of competition, and so on. Next,

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Solar Increasingly Attractive to Large Investors, Now ‘Bankable’ — Thanks, Solar Loan Guarantee Program

Stephen Lacey — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 12:39:00 +0000

With panel prices hitting record lows and performance of projects steadily improving, solar photovoltaics have become increasingly attractive to large investors. Investment in solar has surged to unprecedented levels due to interest from large Wall Street banks, investors like Warren Buffett, and technology firms like Google. In 2011, the solar PV industry brought in $93 billion

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Cuba Gets Its Largest Solar Array; Gamesa Hits Capacity Installation & Turbine Output Records; Clean Energy Witch-Hunter Accused of Bribery (Clean Links)

Zachary Shahan — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 17:00:04 +0000

Some more top cleantech news from the past couple days for you, other than our dozens of stories: 1. Cuba has just received its largest solar power array. “The 1,200 panel solar power system will generate clean electricity for the military fitness center at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay.” The solar power system was installed

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On One-Year Anniversary of Solyndra, Nothing to Report

Zachary Shahan — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 03:00:13 +0000

Yep, after one full year chock-full of Solyndra investigations, no wrongdoings have been found. (Sound familiar — ahem, “climategate“). Here’s more, a full repost, from Richard Caperton of the Center for American Progress (also, while reading through this, let’s think about which politicians wasted the government’s money when they should have known better): by

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Woops — Upton Pushed for a Loan for a Now Bankrupt Solar Company (Hypocrite, Much?)

Zachary Shahan — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 08:57:43 +0000

Fred Upton (R-MI), House Energy and Commerce Chairman, was one of the leading Republicans who ‘led’ us down the ‘this is pointless, a waste of time, and a waste of resources’ Solyndra and clean energy loan program witch hunt (which continues today). Yes, after doubling and tripling down on their investigations of Obama’s connection to

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Independent Report: DOE Loan Program Working, Could Be Improved

Silvio Marcacci — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:29:46 +0000

An independent review of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) loan guarantee program (LGP) finds that the program is working, but recommends several strategies to better protect government investments from failure.

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