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.
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Many on the left argue that president george w.
President obama touted abound in a july 3 2010 announcement of a 2 billion investment in green energy projects.
President obama exaggerated when defending his administration s approval of a 535 million loan guarantee to solyndra a now defunct solar company.
Since the failure of solar panel company solyndra president obama s 80 billion clean technology program has begun to look like a political liability.
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.
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Department of housing and urban development hud and the environmental protection agency epa to support greater solar deployment.
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Abound solar received a 400 million federal loan guarantee but its product was defective producing only a fraction of its intended wattage with solar panels catching on fire.
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.
The second company is abound solar manufacturing which will manufacture.
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.
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Solar powering america is an interagency initiative between the u s.
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The obama administration gave solyndra a 535 million loan guarantee to manufacture solar panels but the company had to file for bankruptcy in 2011.
Obama but none you have backed have succeeded.