Solyndra News

SEPTEMBER 23: Solyndra CEO Brian Harrison taks with his lawyer Walter F. Brown during hearing of the House Energy and Commerce Committee's Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations on Capitol Hill September 23, 2011 in Washington, DC.

The conservative super PAC American Crossroads debuted a new web ad on Tuesday that attacks President Barack Obama for a litany of wasteful, government-funded projects.

The Obama administration's investments in clean energy include a number of successes, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney asserted Tuesday.

The general election has begun! And so has the onslaught of campaign ads. Which ones succeed? Which fail? In Ad Watch, we review them as they come out.

Mitt Romney's newest web video accuses President Barack Obama and the Department of Energy of using a stimulus program to spur green jobs to pay off their friends by giving money to failing business ventures run by Democratic donors.

"The true engine of economic growth will always be companies like Solyndra," President Obama declared two years ago this past weekend.

With the bankruptcy filings of solar firms Evergreen Solar and Solyndra, many investors have seriously begun to question the validity of alternative energy.

Still, with job creation lagging behind his own predictions, Obama's green energy initiatives have provided Republicans with political ammo they have not hesitated to use against him, including the bankruptcy of Solyndra, a solar panel manufacturer that failed despite a $535 million federal loan.

In the past year average selling prices for solar products fell dramatically across the board.

A United States trustee has objected to Solyndra LLC's motion to increase its debtor-in-possession financing, saying the solar panel maker has not shown significant progress with its plans to emerge from bankruptcy protection.

In an effort to "put Americans back to work," the Obama Administration loaned the company $535 million to aid in the construction of a manufacturing plant for solar panels.

When True Green Capital Management LLC chose a solar panel maker for a rooftop installation in New Jersey, the firm's biggest concern was whether the manufacturer would survive long enough to guarantee the equipment.

On Tuesday's edition of MSNBC's The Dylan Ratigan Show , the eponymous host took issue with his panel going into an off-topic debate about the role of government, lecturing them to "stop it" and to talk about those things "on another TV show," before returning to the conversation Ratigan so desired.

The decision by German renewable-energy firm Solar Millennium to file for insolvency has upended the company's Africa expansion plans, with at least one multimillion-dollar project slipping through its hands this year.

Rep. Paul Ryan, the House budget committee chairman who has emerged as a top Mitt Romney surrogate and is talked about as a possible running mate, countered the Obama campaign's fresh attack on Romney's record at Bain Capital by citing the government's failed gamble on solar panel firm Solyndra.

The U.S. high-speed rail line that's closest to construction deserves a $5.5 billion federal loan that shouldn't be held up by backlash from Solyndra LLC's bankruptcy, DesertXpress Enterprises LLC executives said.

The Commerce Department on Thursday slapped hefty tariffs on Chinese solar cells and panels, complaining that Chinese manufacturers are illegally "dumping" their products in the United States and putting U.S. manufacturers at a competitive disadvantage.

Speaking this week at a $35,800-a-head fundraiser at the Park Avenue apartment of the president of the nation's largest private equity firm, Barack Obama laid out his vision for collaboration between business and government.

Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu told the World Renewal Energy Forum in Denver today that when Congress passed the bill authorizing federal loan guarantees, it planned for many "Solyndra-type" failures.

State of play: The Energy Department's loan guarantee program will be back in the cross-hairs of Capitol Hill Republicans on Wednesday.