Solyndra was a manufacturer of cylindrical panels of copper indium gallium selenide cigs thin film solar cells based in fremont california although the company was once touted for its unusual technology plummeting silicon prices led to the company s being unable to compete with conventional solar panels made of crystalline silicon.
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President barack obama s decision in 2010 to install white house solar panels pleased environmentalists.
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.
The company filed for bankruptcy on september 1 2011.
Bush and his republican controlled congress began the green energy loan subsidies program the energy policy act of 2005 that ultimately provided.
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President obama offers new ways to put solar panels on low income housing like these panels on a colorado public housing project and expand solar for others with limited access to clean energy.
But he wasn t the first president to take advantage of alternative forms of energy atop the living quarters at 1600 pennsylvania avenue.
The first solar panels were placed on the white house more than 30 years earlier by jimmy carter and removed by the very next administration.
President obama exaggerated when defending his administration s approval of a 535 million loan guarantee to solyndra a now defunct solar company.
In 2008 the year before obama took office solar panels generated just 76 000 megawatt hours of electricity according to the energy information administration enough to power 7 000 average.
Please click here to view a video on access to solar panels featuring president obama.
Solar powering america is an interagency initiative between the u s.
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.
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.