Department of housing and urban development hud and the environmental protection agency epa to support greater solar deployment.
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Department of agriculture usda u s.
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.
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.
The obama administration gave solyndra a 535 million loan guarantee to manufacture solar panels but the company had to file for bankruptcy in 2011.
The second company is abound solar manufacturing which will manufacture.
Solar powering america is an interagency initiative between the u s.
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President obama touted abound in a july 3 2010 announcement of a 2 billion investment in green energy projects.
Obama referred to solyndra s loan at an oct.
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.
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.
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.
Some companies will fail some companies will succeed pres.
Since the failure of solar panel company solyndra president obama s 80 billion clean technology program has begun to look like a political liability.
President obama exaggerated when defending his administration s approval of a 535 million loan guarantee to solyndra a now defunct solar company.