15th Green Energy Company (UPDATE - Make that 36th) Funded by Obama Goes Under
UPDATE IV - Make that 50... - LINK
UPDATE III - October 18th 2012 - the number is 36 either filing for bankruptcy or about to - LINK
The latest "Solyndra" is Abound Solar. With so many of these green energy boondoggles it looks like this: Obama gives big taxpayer money to a campaign donor who is an owner in a junk “green energy company”. Said owners pay themselves in a big way, give big money to Democrats and go out of business. "Scheming that the right people got their loan guarantees" - LINK.
Abound Solar Inc., a U.S. solar manufacturer that was awarded a $400 million U.S. loan guarantee, will suspend operations and file for bankruptcy because its panels were too expensive to compete.
Abound borrowed about $70 million against the guarantee, the Loveland, Colorado-based company said today in a statement. It plans to file for bankruptcy protection in Wilmington, Delaware, next week.
The failure will follow that of Solyndra LLC, which shut down in August after receiving a $535 million loan guarantee from the same U.S. Energy Department program. Abound stopped production in February to focus on reducing costs after a global oversupply and increasing competition from China drove down the price of solar panels by half last year.
Ouch -
U.S. taxpayers may lose $40 million to $60 million on the loan after Abound’s assets are sold and the bankruptcy proceeding closes, Damien LaVera, an Energy Department spokesman, said in a statement today.
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Aside from Finnish car company (and Stimulus money recipient) Fiskar already having troubles, here is the list:
UPDATE - Make that 16 - Amonix Corp near Las Vegas closes doors after 14 months and $20 million in Green Energy grants - LINK
Solyndra Abound Solar Energy Conversion Devices BrightSource LSP Evergreen Solar Ener1 SunPower Beacon Power ECOtality Uni-Solar Azure Dynamics Solar Trust
A123 - Being handed to the Chinese after they got our money? - LINK.
UPDATE II - A123 now filing for bankruptcy and selling assets to Johnson Controls - LINK.
President Obama statement praising A123 [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZr2Pjzg1-8]
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