Obama DOE Warns: We Can’t Let China Dominate Solar Industry… Then Awards $337 Million to Firm That Uses Chinese Company’s Solar Panels
Posted by Jim Hoft on Thursday, September 29, 2011, 12:16 PM
Obama DOE Warns: We Can’t Let China Dominate Solar Industry…
Then Immediately Awards $337 Million to Firm That Uses Chinese Solar Panels
Obama and solar panels. (Yahoo)
On September 14, 2011, Jonathan Silver, Executive Director Loan Programs Office, U.S. Department of Energy warned the House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Committee on Energy and Commerce that we cannot allow China to dominate the solar industry. This came after US company Solyndra went bankrupt despite blowing $537 million in US stimulus cash.
That’s odd?
If the Department of Energy was so worried about China’s domination of the international solar industry then why did they award Chinese firm Suntech with a major US contract back in February.
The New York Times reported, via Free Republic:
Suntech, the Chinese solar giant, has won a contract to supply photovoltaic panels for a 150-megawatt project in Arizona, marking China’s entry into a lucrative United States power-plant market dominated by American companies.
The project is the first phase of a planned 700-megawatt project called Mesquite Solar to be built about 40 miles west of Phoenix and operated by Sempra Generation, a subsidiary of Sempra Energy. A California utility, Pacific Gas & Electric, will buy the electricity produced by the power plant’s first phase, called Mesquite Solar 1.
…While Chinese companies like Suntech, Yingli Green Energy and Trina Solar have grabbed a significant percentage of the American residential solar market — supplying nearly 40 percent of panels in California — they had shied away from huge utility-scale projects.
And this week the Obama Administration awarded a $337 million loan guarantee to Sempra Energy’s Mesquite Solar I project in Arizona, about 45 miles west of Phoenix.
That 150-megawatt facility will use solar panels made in Arizona by Suntech Power, which is based in China.
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bg commented:
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flashback re: California
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Rhoda R commented:
They’re just stuttering around trying to find a button that will distract from the the fact that they’ve awarded 2/3 of a billion dollars to the solar company with close ties (BIL) to Pelosi AFTER the 1/2 billion dollar loss on Solyendra.
tommy mc donnell commented:
china is probably the only economy that has benefitted fron obamanomics.
bg commented:
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“We are a global company and we sell all over the world
though the vast majority of our product is manufactured
in China.”
yes, slave labor is a lot cheaper.. *sigh*
bit more here & elsewhere i’m sure..
Obama: China has better shovel ready jobs.. /s/
Coke CEO: China Friendlier To Business Than Obama’s America
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#1AMERICAN commented:
what a bunch of A$$ clowns running things
Rock commented:
Lets see front door sweetheart deals to members of Congress or family, giving our technology to a foreign nation, aiding in the smuggling of weapons across our borders that resulted in the deaths of hundreds of that nations citizens and LEO’s here, members of Congress who are connected to people and organizations that wish harm to this Nation, and this President and big Sis see’s little old blue hair ladies, and returning vets as their enemies. Really this is our America, and everyone will sit down to dinner tonight as if all is right in the world, pathetic.
More Liberty commented:
LOL…why’d you change the headline? There was an AZ, for Arizona, in there.
forest commented:
But “Suntech” doesn’t sound Chinese. Isn’t that enough research?
Plus they probably gave Obama some money.
Molon Labe commented:
My guess is Obama will become a lobbyist for the Muslims and Chinese once he is thrown out of the WH. What a commie.
RandomThoughts commented:
The Obama administration should be applauded for the amazing consistency of its hypocrisy. Hey, they’re actually good at something after all.
mercador commented:
He is creating jobs —– in China. It can’t get worse than that.
MrGoodWench commented:
If the Department of Energy was so worried about China’s domination of the international solar industry then why did they award Chinese firm Suntech with a major US contract back in February.
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You keep asking questions like this,
and Hussein might act on Bev Perdue’s request to cancel elections in 2012
Freddy commented:
#11 September 29, 2011 at 3:24 pm
mercador commented:
He is creating jobs —– in China. It can’t get worse than that.
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Yes it can!
Those panels are not economically viable. Not only are we paying more for this installation than it can return in electricity, we will be subsidizing every watt that comes from that plant until the day it is finally closed.
The best solution is to simply let this company steal all the money, like Solyndra did, and cut the losses at that!
Obamanomics at it’s finest!
OMB commented:
To say that this Administration talked out of both sides of their mouth is being redundant. Just another case of Democrats Behaving Badly. Something we’ve been seeing a lot of lately …
http://www.ombudizen.com/2011/09/29/democrats-behaving-badly/
Fedup commented:
I’m sure jobs/economy are going just as bho wants them to, as well as education, military, border, ‘global warming’, mining , drilling etc. His lack of respect for the Constitution is well known. If he gets elected again the USA is finished.
Chris Edens commented:
Our current situation is not good for the every day American in this country. With deals like this one our future will not be good either.
Once again a government run project full of corruption, shady deals and bad decisions.
Can we trust the people we elected(aka hired and they work for US!) with anything anymore?
Are we really allowing the robbers to guard the safe? America is paralyzed and defenseless when it comes to defending itself from the enemy within. Sad times indeed for my country. Support term limits and end the abusive practice of lobbying where he with the most money wins. It is OUR country, we are not the slaves of the rich “elite” who buy influence and power and will sell our livelihoods to a foreign competitor who doesn’t play fair. It’s time for that change now!
big L commented:
It seems like a collective insanity this worship of the sun god. But it is the old fashioned greed and a con job. It is “The Sting” writ large. Sun-power is 29 % efficient during the 3 best hours of the day.
Weird. Kind of like theft of public funds.
Rock commented:
#14 September 29, 2011 at 3:35 pm
OMB,
To say that this Administration talked out of both sides of their mouth
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And you might add both ends.
FurryGuy commented:
Thanks to the corrosive business regulations and excessive taxation on businesses, amongst other boneheaded governmental interference in the Free Markets, the ChiComs are more Capitalist than we are. No small wonder companies flee the U.S.
Texas_Treeroach commented:
This is the gibberish that occurs when an Administration vocalizes from its mouth, and one of its crony Departments vocalizes from its butt (Or, visey-versey).
Either way, the result is a pungent cacophony that confuses them both, and confirms our opinion that neither knows what is (or what is not) policy.
Strap yourself in; and Enjoy Obama-World!
JPeden commented:
But, after all, China is the leading developer of completely Western-subsidized solar panels, because Climate Science has firmly established that the root cause of Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming is the “obscence inequality of wealth between the rich and poor nations”*, so that China can then construct as many coal-fired electricity plants as possible and cure CAGW at the same time!
Hey, “the science” makes sense to the Chinese! To the EPA, to Obama and to all other Commies of the World! QED
*Mike Hulme, self-anointed Post Normal Scientist Extraordinaire, UEA, UK, home of the Hadley Met Office’s CRU, in turn containing almost all of the rest of the UK’s certifiable Climate Science lunatics – who are no doubt valiantly fighting solely for the rest of the Peoples of the World in order to get back their wealth from the “rich” who, since they exist and must have had contact with other people, “couldn’t have done it by themselves”!
TammyChicago commented:
Obama is to our economy what a shop vac is to a sphincter.
Rock commented:
The whole solar power, global warming agenda is the accumulation of a long held dream of Progressives, and Socialists, to be able to find a way tax the air we breath, and the water we drink. If you are averse to hard work, then you become a Government bureaucrat and dream up ways to tax the people to grab a greater share of their hard earned wealth while you sit in a air conditioned office. Tar & feather, and run out of town on a rail is far to kind for these modern day plantation bosses. We need a top down cleaning of the Federal Government power structure if we are to ever reclaim this nation dream.
Lionel Hutz commented:
I’m confused, the article says “That 150-megawatt facility will use solar panels made in Arizona by Suntech Power, which is based in China.” If they have a facility in Arizona, doesn’t that mean there will be Arizona jobs too?
bg commented:
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all part of the NWO via the GREENing of America.. /s/
bit more here & throughout threads..
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uncivil & right commented:
Last American minding the shop please turn out the lights.
WillofLa commented:
These Democrats have had the past 50 + years to learn how to run three, four, even five scams running at the same time. That takes people who know what they are doing, and it takes huge organizational skills to keep all that up and running without detection, keep it all going and be able to accomodate any sudden changes, and run them as long as they can while also blowing as much smoke and mirrors about what they are doing in their every day job, and keep people away who Democrats don’t trust, far away enough to prevent anyone finding out before the work is done. And what it that? It’s stealing more than enough money from the American tax payer while raising the taxes to the point that there is so much money coming in that no one person would be able to find out where the money is going to, like these four solar power companies Obama is involved with. Sempra is the next scam to be exposed, and of course Solyndra being the first. But see, the scam is over. Obama got the tax payer money to who he wanted it to go to before anyone could blow the whistle on him. He’s not worried about being caught because he’ll just leave town and act like he didn’t have anything to do with that companies failure. This the Chicago Way of doing damage, scamming money, directing money but keeping those whose job it is to prevent any money going to where it doesn’t need to go, at arms distance where they can’t really see who, and what, in this case Obama, had it go. The person knows something but can’t really put his finger on it. That way Obama can stay above the “fray” when the person who is supposed to watch the money is beginning to cause smoke to rise from where the money was stolen. The authorities know something happen, but can’t tell you what exactly happen. Obama knows how to keep things covered up until he’s finished, and then he disappears and the blame is left on somebody else.
This is what needs to be stopped, and it ain’t goin’ to be easy. The Democrats are masters of the cover up. And that is what needs to be dismantled. Are we ready? Think we can do this? We better be able to because if we can’t we’re screwed!! This is going to be like a rooky cop going up against the Mafia, and is going to bring it down by himself.
Finncrisp commented:
#13 Is absolutely correct – solar technology is in it’s infancy as a technology. A land hog for the amount of energy produced, and it will never turn a profit as it is presently practiced. A perfect example of why gov. picking winners and losers is never a good practice.
Even worse, this is just a money pit created for obama bundlers to launder money back to Barry ans his truly evil henchmen. Teapot Dome on “steroids”. China is getting paid off in the process as well.
bg commented:
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eh, the Dems are just doing what they’re good at..
building another future crisis bubble for the
next Republican President to burst.. /sarc/
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Redwine commented:
This whole solar/green tech thing in the US is not understood. It’s a money laundering scam. It probably started with Al Gore using as a way to take revenge on the GOP for “stealing” the 2000 election from him. The regime is using it to recycle taxpayer money through large donors and the Dem party and back again.
BTW – If you want to see cheap solar energy in use by an entire population, you only have to look to Israel, where nearly every single residential building in every single segment of the population has a passive solar panel system to heat water. I lived in Israel for 30 years and know from experience that all apartments come with this solar water heating system already installed. They are reasonably cheap, easy to maintain and can save a lot of money on the electric bill. These passive solar systems are meant for climates where there is plenty of sun.
aprilnovember811 commented:
Obama and his criminal friends are looting the Treasury.
“The last official act of any government is to loot the treasury.” ~George Washington
Barack Hussein Obama is a criminal. God willing, he’ll pay for his crimes in the future, as well as the rest that are involved.
bg commented:
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Redwine #32 September 29, 2011 at 5:13 pm
albeit Al was all set to be the first GREEN prez
(oops), it was set in motion way before then..
guess he’ll just have to settle on being the first carbon billionaire..
more here & here (missing link)..
[“Obama Years Ago Helped Fund Carbon Program He Is Now Pushing
Through Congress” is a FOXNews story by Ed Barnes. In short, “While
on the board of a Chicago-based charity, Barack Obama helped fund a
carbon trading exchange that will likely play a critical role in the cap-
and-trade carbon reduction program he is now trying to push through
Congress as president.”
[..]
The largest shareholder in the Exchange is Goldman Sachs. Chicago Mayor
Richard M. Daley is its honorary chairman, The Joyce Foundation, which
funded the Exchange also funded money for John Ayers’ Chicago School
Initiatives. John is the brother of William Ayers.]
yes, the usual suspects, only not so funny..
[scroll threads for more]
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donh commented:
Hail to you Alternate of Christ…..Pharoh of RA…. http://youtu.be/Bh7K3V9yTMg
Patty commented:
Aren’t we getting tire yet? Haven’t we heard enough yet. Immelt has a hold on more then we all realize.
Coke Ceo, is saying it is easier to do business there then here. China will have no problem being the number one super power in the next 5 years. Obama and his associates are giving China the keys to the store.
Nothing will be accomplished as long as Obama is in office. And after that he will still have his fingerprints on this and a great deal of things that will take a masterful and accomplished person to undo.
Patty commented:
tired … correction
Redwine commented:
You’re right, bg (#34). The Goracle internationalized the warmist hoax, stuffing his bank account and, with Soros’ backing, brought it into line with the NWO and implemented via the UN. Green industries are the “laundromat” for taxpayer dollars to the Dem party, the unions, for international enablers, etc. This stinks all the way to the WH.
The reason I pointed out Israel’s cheap and widely implemented solar powered water heating system is that this was done without a centralized policy. It’s not part of any “green” initiative. It’s cheap and it has been working before I started to live there in 1981.
These big, fancy “green” initiatives in the US and elsewhere are a fraud. And Israel’s example has proven it.
lizzy84 commented:
Protectionism is a tricky thing.
DOD Must Buy American-Made, Not Chinese, Solar Panels.
link@:http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/dod-must-buy-american-made-not-chinese-solar-panels/
‘Looks like Holder addressed this issue of suntech modules manufactured in AZ with his comment that “There is no requirement with regard to the origin of components or subcomponents in manufactured goods used in a project, as long as the manufacturing occurs in the United States. (See 2 CFR 176.70(a)(2)(ii).” ‘
link@:http://www1.eere.energy.gov/recovery/pdfs/eere_program_guidance_buy_american.pdf
Good stuff, Holder. /s/
WTF_OVER commented:
This is ANOTHER “looting” of the American People not to mention ANOTHER douchebag Pelosi nepotistic ripoff. What’s to understand here STOP THE FREAKING SPENDING!!!! The country is broke!
Betty commented:
Rock. talking out of both ends. as my husband use to say when you burped you just cheated your ass out of a fart. OBAMA YOU ARE FIRED