Obama Solar Panel Program

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Obama solar panel program.

President obama exaggerated when defending his administration s approval of a 535 million loan guarantee to solyndra a now defunct solar company. On the renewable energy front obama signed into law an extension of key tax credits for solar and wind energy. Since the failure of solar panel company solyndra president obama s 80 billion clean technology program has begun to look like a political liability. Please click here to view a video on access to solar panels featuring president obama president obama is committed to ensuring that every american family can choose to go solar and to cut their energy bills and that every american community has the tools they need to tackle local air pollution and global climate change.

Department of energy doe u s. Department of agriculture usda u s. The first applications were approved in 2009 and through 2014 the obama administration had issued some 38 loans and guarantees covering 34 projects ranging from nuclear power plants to. Bush and his republican controlled congress began the green energy loan subsidies program the energy policy act of 2005 that ultimately provided the funding to solyndra.

Obama referred to solyndra s loan at an oct. Department of housing and urban development hud and the environmental protection agency epa to support greater solar deployment. Barack obama was not vetted before being elected president and neither was solyndra before mr. Obama threw that taxpayer money down the drain of unproven technology.

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. Many on the left argue that president george w. The abound solar plant which got 400 million in federal loan guarantees in 2010 when the obama administration sought to use stimulus funds to promote green energy filed for bankruptcy two years.