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Solyndra to Solar City: Lesson Not Learned in Green Energy Loan
By David Kreutzer, Ph.D. Basking in the glow from the $535 million fire left when Solyndra crashed and burned, the Department of Energy is ready to subsidize additional hundreds of millions in loans to...
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Commercially Viable = Can’t Get Financing?
By David Kreutzer, Ph.D. Maybe the Department of Energy (DOE) would lend me money to buy lottery tickets. For the tickets that win, I’ll pay them back their dollar (plus $0.001 for a week’s interest)....
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Solar Energy School Propaganda 101
By Michelle Malkin The Obama administration’s crony green subsidy scandal is erupting like a solar flare in Washington. But do you know what your kids are learning in their environmental education...
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‘Green Jobs’ Woes Move to Labor Department
By Lachlan Markay While the Energy Department’s efforts to create “green jobs” have received significant attention – and criticism – since the collapse of solar company Solyndra, another federal agency...
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Killing Energy, Killing Jobs, Killing America
By Alan Caruba America has been under attack since Barack Obama took the oath of office on January 20, 2009. The primary target has been the nation’s ability to generate energy for electricity and...
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White House Subpoenaed, Stimulus Loans Under Investigation
By Mike Brownfield Two new chapters in the Solyndra scandal were written today, one involving a potential bailout of the company and the latest regarding Congress’s move to subpoena the White House for...
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A $230,000 Taxpayer-Funded ‘Green Jobs’ Website, but No Jobs Listed
By Mike Brownfield How’s this for a waste of taxpayer money? According to Energy& Environment News, the Department of Energy is paying $230,000 for a website to promote career paths in the green...
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In Pictures: Energy Department’s Renewable Energy ‘Investments’
By Lachlan Markay The Washington Post put together a handy infographic examining the distribution of $36 billion in Energy Department financing for renewable energy companies. Solar power generation...
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Serious Problems Exist with Government’s Energy Research Program
By Nicolas Loris ~ The Department of Energy’s (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) is a program designed to fund high-risk, high-reward projects that the private sector would not...
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Money Loser + $100 Million Subsidy = Money Maker?
By David Kreutzer, Ph.D. ~ When is a solar energy company a loan flipper instead of a solar energy company? How about when the value of its loan subsidies vastly exceeds the value of its solar project?...
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Chu Uses Power Marketing Administrations to Implement Green Agenda
By Romina Boccia ~ When it comes to finding alternate pathways to force their green agenda onto Americans, President Obama and his Administration know how to dream up creative solutions. In this latest...
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Secretary Chu’s $10 Million Fiasco
By Diane Katz ~ During a hearing last week of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, Wyoming Senator John Barrasso (R) asked Energy Secretary Steven Chu a seemingly simple question: “(D)o you...
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After Massive Losses, Stimulus-Backed Company Asks for More Taxpayer Cash
By Lachlan Markay ~ A financially troubled green energy company has seen its stock prices plummet to below a dollar per share (UPDATE: see below) since receiving a nearly $250 million federal grant in...
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Time to Return ARPA-E to Its Original Mission
By Nicolas Loris ~ Despite having a budget for only a few years, the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) is quickly becoming a microcosm of the larger problems associated with the entire...
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Abound Solar: Doomed to Fail Because of Election-Year Politics, Investor Says
By Michael Sandoval ~ One of Abound Solar’s venture capital investors blamed election-year political games for the collapse of the Colorado-based thin film solar panel manufacturer, according to a new...
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Energy Dept. Spends $10 Million on Water Turbine to Power 25 Houses
By Michael Sandoval~ Photo credit courtesy of NREL The first underwater turbine to make use of tidal energy went live last week in Maine, supported by a $10 million investment by the Department of...
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DOE-Backed Abound Solar Facing Fraud Investigation In Colorado
By Michael Sandoval ~ Abound Solar, the now-bankrupt solar company and recipient of a $400 million Department of Energy loan guarantee, faces a three-pronged investigation from Weld County, CO, for...
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Installing Windmills Doesn’t Make the Wind Blow
By David Kreutzer, Ph.D. ~ A tweet from the Department of Energy (DOE) gives a link to a DOE webpage highlighting a graph from, and giving a link to, a study by the American Wind Energy Association....
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The Hope-a-Nomics Disaster: One Company’s Horror Story
By Michelle Malkin ~ President Obama promises to move the country forward with his recycled pledge of five million green jobs. But in the real world, small businesses are struggling to stay afloat as...
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Lawsuit Alleges “Corruption and Negligence” at Department of Energy
By Lachlan Markay ~ A lawsuit filed in federal court on Wednesday alleges mass favoritism in the Department of Energy’s decisions to award federal grants to major car companies to develop electric...
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