Evergreen Solar files for bankruptcy

Largest solar-photovoltaic facility on public lands to create over 600 jobs, inject $336 million into local economySecretary of the Interior Ken Salazar approved last week the Desert Sunlight Solar Farm, a 550-megawatt (MW) solar power project to be built in the California desert east of Palm Springs. The solar-photovoltaic facility will create more than 630 jobs at peak construction and infuse an estimated $336 million into the local economy. When built, Desert Sunlight will generate enough energy to power over 165,000 homes.Largest solar-photovoltaic facility on public lands to create over 600 jobs, inject $336 million into local economy
Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar approved last week the Desert Sunlight Solar Farm, a 550-megawatt (MW) solar power project to be built in the California desert east of Palm Springs. The solar-photovoltaic facility will create more than 630 jobs at peak construction and infuse an estimated $336 million into the local economy. When built, Desert Sunlight will generate enough energy to power over 165,000 homes.

 

Are ya sure ya want to? Some things are far better gone.

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GE Invests in Solar Thermal Company
The company thinks adding solar-thermal technology to its natural-gas plants will make them run more cheaply and efficiently

http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/38309/

 

BrightSource Files To Build Second Huge Solar Plant In California‎
Forbes (blog) - Todd Woody - Aug 5, 2011

BrightSource Energy, the California startup that is building the first large-scale solar thermal power plant to break ground in the United

 

Perhaps we can see links to them being actually in operation? As far as I know the largest is still tied up in court by the left wing enviro wacko's. Unless they are up and running they are merely a myth, fantasy or dream which ever you want to call it.

 

which one? I thought we already did this, but I could be wrong

 

Ah, doubling down on Oakland....good move roll. I assume Detroit and Beirut were their second and third choices?

 

Gosh...I guess you missed this?

 

Check with Spain....Barry sang their praises, and models your green economy after theirs.

Problem is....

As predicted was inevitable, today the Spanish newspaper La Gaceta runs with a full-page article fessing up to the truth about Spain’s “green jobs” boondoggle, which happens to be the one naively cited by President Obama no less than eight times as his model for the United States. It is now out there as a bust, a costly disaster that has come undone in Spain to the point that even the Socialists admit it, with the media now in full pursuit.

Breaking the Spanish government’s admission here at Pajamas Media probably didn’t hurt their interest in finally reporting on the leaked admission. Obama’s obvious hope of rushing into place his “fundamental transformation” of America into something more like Europe’s social democracies — where even the most basic freedoms have been moved from individuals and families to the state — before the house of cards collapsed has suffered what we can only hope proves to be its fatal blow. At least on this front.

La Gaceta boldly exposes the failure of the Spanish renewable policy and how Obama has been following it. The headline screams: “Spain admits that the green economy as sold to Obama is a disaster.”

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/leaked...model-green-economy-a-disaster-pjm-exclusive/

Full story, and rather old. Just timely, in that this green failure is just hitting Barry in the face now.

 

This is what I'm talking about. Please link to what has actually happened.

 

Don't you know that leftie corporate welfare and crony capitalism is for 'our own good' ?

 

I care when they use our "stimulus" tax dollars to pack up and move their manufacturing to China.

 

so what's your point? Is it that had the MA liberals performed due dilligence then they would have found Evergreen to be a bad use of taxpayer dollars? Is that your point?

 

Green technology and advancements help to IMPROVE our country's independence and world leadership in new technologies.

Government backing of new endeavors get the ball rolling.

Republican corporate welfare to oil companies and other already extremely profitable and damaging industries is simply theft.

Not to mention the ENORMOUS government subsidies to nuclear power, which dwarf green energy subsidies, seem to elicit no cries of "socialism" from the Right AT ALL. Can we spell Corporate Propaganda Shills?

 

You want SCARY?

Here is SCARY!

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxdt_f0hwUg"] Worshiping the President![/ame]

 

Hip, hip, hooray for the Han. No cleantech in America period. We are going to monkey wrench and mau mau the left into complete failure.

 

Do you remember Michael Moore, Noam Chomsky and George Soros? This is payback.

 

Did any of those jobs receive direct federal, state or local govt. grants, tax subsidies or other subsidies?

 

The Sierra Club will haul solar and wind energy concerns into federal district court to tie them up for year just like what is happening to Calico Solar right now. See you in court.

 

Venture Capital is fleeing out of renewables and alternatives because the govt. subsidies are drying up. The seed money is gone. Too bad. So sad. Hip, hip, hooray.

 

First Solar and SunPower announced an agreement on Tuesday with the Sierra Club and others to add thousands of acres near their proposed projects for wildlife protection.

http://gigaom.com/cleantech/solar-companies-learn-to-play-nice-with-environmentalists/

Aug. 15--Calico Solar announced that unions will provide the labor for the solar project 37 miles east of Barstow.

California Unions for Reliable Energy, a coalition of energy unions, announced last week that Calico Solar will use the coalition's members in the construction of the utility-scale solar project. The union members will fill the more than 700 construction jobs required to build the project that will serve almost 500,000 homes.

William Kriegel, CEO of the project's owner KRoadPower, in a statement that the agreement will "further the interests of project developers, contractors, workers and local communities." KRoad became the owner of Calico Solar as of 2011, when the ownership was transferred from Tessera Solar.

http://www.istockanalyst.com/business/news/5358875/calico-solar-promises-construction-jobs-to-union

 

Non Union labor makes projects cheaper, and reduces the cost per kilowatt hour. Union labor does the opposite.

Expect Big Oil and Gas to use the Endangered Species Act to keep their cleantech competitors tied up in court until they can extract a settlement from cleantech.

 

In the Second Quarter Venture Capital Investing in Cleantech dropped by one third.

 

All that tells me is that libs are not very good businessmen.

Obama has no private sector experience.

Someone who has never created a job in the private sector is not going to create any in the public sector either.

But even libs who wander into the private sector seem to let their green ideology overcome whatever business sense they need to survive.

Libs in government threw money at the is company in a hopeless effort to save it but they could not.

Lesson learned?

I doubt it.

 

We've got three solar cell manufacturers locating in east Tennessee within the next two years. I'm going to be at the bankruptcy auctions of the left over solar cells. That's when the cost per killowatt will be affordable.