Posted by admin | Posted in Green Energy | Posted on 04-02-2012
Tags: alternative energy loans
Alternative Energy Loan Programs Part 1
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Biofuels Incentives: A Summary of Federal Programs – CRS Report $0.99 With recent high energy prices, the passage of major energy legislation in 2005 (P.L. 109-58) and 2007 (P.L. 110-140), and the passage of a farm bill in 2008 (P.L. 110-246), there is ongoing congressional interest in promoting alternatives to petroleum fuels. Biofuels-transportation fuels produced from plants and other organic materials-are of particular interest.Ethanol and biodiesel, the two mos… |
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Solar Projects: DOE Section 1705 Loan Guarantees $0.99 Since Solyndra, a solar system manufacturing company that received a $535 million loan guarantee from the Department of Energy (DOE), filed for bankruptcy in September of 2011 there has been much congressional interest in better understanding the characteristics of renewable energy projects, specifically solar projects, that have received DOE loan guarantees. The objective of this report is to pro… |
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Loan Guarantees for Clean Energy Technologies: Goals, Concerns, and Policy Options Government guaranteed debt is a financial tool that has been used to support a number of federal policy objectives: home ownership, higher education, and small business development, among others. Loan guarantees for new energy technologies date back to the mid-1970s, when rapidly rising energy prices motivated the development of alternative, and renewable, sources of energy. Recently, the Energy P… |