GreenLies
Quarter-billion-dollar stimulus grant creates just 400 jobs
Battery maker A123 Systems vowed thousands of new jobs when it received a nearly quarter-billion-dollar stimulus grant in late 2009, but federal job-tracking figures show only a few hundred positions were created before the company joined a growing list of federally backed energy businesses that ended in bankruptcy.
Read more at WashingtonTimes
Berlin ‘abandons one million electric cars goal’ (Green Energy Hype is Over)
The German government has abandoned its goal of having one million electric cars on the streets of the country by 2020.
“The hype is over,” the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung wrote, citing information from the Ministry of Education and Research. The high expectations for electric cars, which have no carbon dioxide emissions, has been replaced by huge […]
Germany’s Wind Power Chaos Should Be A Warning To Everyone (Wind Power Nightmare)
Germany has gone further down the ‘renewables’ path than any country in the world, and now it’s paying the price,
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Germany is way ahead of us on the very path our politicians want us to follow – and the problems it has encountered as a result are big news there. In fact, Germany is being horribly […]
Harry Reid’s Son Representing Chinese Solar Panel Plant in $5 Billion Nevada Deal
The son of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), Rory Reid, is the primary representative for ENN Energy Group, a Chinese energy company seeking to build a $5 billion solar panel plant on a 9,000-acre Clark County desert plot in Laughlin, Nevada.
ENN scored big when Clark County commissioners unanimously voted to sell the Chinese company […]
Solyndra Part II: Another Obama-Funded Solar Plant Goes Under
The Las Vegas Review Journal reports today that Amonix, a California-based solar panel company that has received more than $20 million in federal tax credits and grants, has shut down its manufacturing plant in Northern Las Vegas, just 14 months after it opened.
The company, which makes concentrating solar photovoltaic technology, is the latest clean energy casualty of the Obama […]
Obama Green Jobs - Can We Call It A Success?
Evergreen SolarSpectraWattSolyndra (received $535 million)Beacon Power (received $43 million)AES’ subsidiary Eastern EnergyNevada Geothermal (received $98.5 million)SunPower (received $1.5 billion)First Solar (received $1.46 billion)Babcock & Brown (an Australian company which received $178 million)Ener1 (subsidiary EnerDel received $118.5 million)Amonix (received 5.9 million)The National Renewable Energy LabFisker AutomotiveAbound Solar (received $400 million, only borrowed $70 million of that)Chevy […]