Comments on: Solyndra Snags DOE Loan Guarantee No. 1

By: Obama at Solyndra: I’ll Fight to Pass A Climate Bill This Year

Obama at Solyndra: I’ll Fight to Pass A Climate Bill This Year — Wed, 26 May 2010 18:23:40 +0000

[...] stimulus package have been creating green jobs, and boosting the clean power industry. A year ago Solyndra, which makes tube-shaped solar gear, snagged the first loan guarantee ($535 million), from the Department of Energy and Solyndra has been building out a factory in [...]

By: Q&A: DOE Loan Chief on Lessons for Greentech Startups, VCs

Q&A: DOE Loan Chief on Lessons for Greentech Startups, VCs — Tue, 25 May 2010 07:01:41 +0000

[...] us in an interview this week. Already, companies including Tesla Motors, Fisker Automotive, Solyndra, BrightSource Energy and others have collectively garnered billions of dollars in commitments for [...]

By: Solar Cell Maker Suniva Scores DOE Loan Guarantee

Solar Cell Maker Suniva Scores DOE Loan Guarantee — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 22:14:58 +0000

[...] The loan guarantee win puts Suniva in exclusive company, with only a handful of these DOE loan guarantees given out to companies, including solar thermal company Brightsource Energy, the power company Southern Company for the first two nuclear plants in the U.S. in almost three decades, and thin film solar firm Solyndra. [...]

By: CMEA’s Maurice Gunderson Talks Tactics

CMEA’s Maurice Gunderson Talks Tactics — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 08:01:12 +0000

[...] of an IPO drought in September, as well as Solyndra, the thin-film solar startup that received the first renewable-energy manufacturing loan guarantee from the U.S. Department of [...]

By: What You Need to Know About the ARPA-E Program

What You Need to Know About the ARPA-E Program — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 08:52:09 +0000

[...] Department of Energy’s loans, loan guarantees and grants to greentech startups like Tesla, Solyndra, and BrightSource, are too risky, then you’re not going to be too keen on the DOE’s [...]

By: BrightSource Wins $1.37B Federal Loan Guarantee Commitment

BrightSource Wins $1.37B Federal Loan Guarantee Commitment — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 23:52:18 +0000

[...] in the footsteps of other guarantees for clean power given out in recent months including to thin film solar company Solyndra and to Southern Company for its nuclear reactors. Federal loan guarantees under this program move [...]

By: President Obama to Announce Over $8B in Loan Guarantees for Nuclear

President Obama to Announce Over $8B in Loan Guarantees for Nuclear — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:27:54 +0000

[...] for Southern Company’s new two reactors is over $8 billion — as opposed to the $535 million loan guarantee for thin film solar maker Solyndra, or even $80 million for biofuel maker Range [...]

By: Obama’s 2011 Budget: What Did, & Didn’t, Make the Cut for Greentech

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:22:06 +0000

[...] with nuclear development (the first award under the DOE loan guarantee program last year, for thin-film solar startup Solyndra, clocks in at $535 [...]

By: Solyndra Scores $105M Deal With Italy’s Sun System

Solyndra Scores $105M Deal With Italy’s Sun System — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:01:21 +0000

[...] has a mountain of capital behind it. The company snagged the first loan-guarantee — for $535 million — since the 1980s under a long-delayed Department of Energy program [...]

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:51:47 +0000

Interesting way to look at it. For the most part, I agree with you.