Earlier today, Joe Biden, working toward the agenda of Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Wall Street multinationals, and the radical climate change activists within the far left of the socialist democrat party, declared a national emergency around the issue of U.S. energy prices and policies. [SEE HERE]
On the front side of the justification, the people in control of the Biden administration, claim that current and future increases in energy prices are likely to do severe damage to the economy and the lives of all Americans. However, in the background of the issue, this is the ‘never let a crisis go to waste’ phase of an energy crisis the administration has intentionally created.
The real goal is to fundamentally transform the foundation of the U.S. economy away from fossil fuels and into a new era of clean renewable energy. This is what all of the Biden cabinet officers now refer to as the “economic transition” phase.
Joe Biden’s executive announcement today is the triggering of increased federal government control over the United States energy system.
Ideological government intervention, completely disconnected from the free market, is facilitated by the declaration of a federal national emergency:
[WHITE HOUSE] – Today, President Biden is authorizing the use of the Defense Production Act (DPA) to accelerate domestic production of clean energy technologies – unlocking new powers to meet this moment. Specifically, the President is authorizing the Department of Energy to use the DPA to rapidly expand American manufacturing of five critical clean energy technologies:
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- Solar panel parts like photovoltaic modules and module components;
- Building insulation;
- Heat pumps, which heat and cool buildings super efficiently;
- Equipment for making and using clean electricity-generated fuels, including electrolyzers, fuel cells, and related platinum group metals; and
- Critical power grid infrastructure like transformers.
In deploying the DPA, the Biden-Harris Administration will strongly encourage the use of strong labor standards, including project labor agreements and community benefits agreements that offer wages at or above the prevailing rate and include local hire provisions. The Administration also will strongly encourage projects with environmental justice outcomes that empower the clean energy transition in low-income communities historically overburdened by legacy pollution.
Following this announcement, the White House and the Department of Energy will convene relevant industry, labor, environmental justice, and other key stakeholders as we maximize the impact of the DPA tools made available by President Biden’s actions and strengthen domestic clean energy manufacturing. (more)
The Biden administration then immediately triggered the Defense Production Act for the U.S. government to: (a) suspend tarrifs; and (b) take control over procurement for all key components needed in the transition from fossil fuel to solar energy. The products will come from Southeast Asia as the main hub of solar equipment is not located within the United States. DPA Excerpt:
[…] exported from the Kingdom of Cambodia, Malaysia, the Kingdom of Thailand, and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, and that are not already subject to an antidumping or countervailing duty order as of the date of this proclamation, and to temporarily extend during the course of the emergency the time therein prescribed for the performance of any act related to such imports. (read more)
The DPA emergency authorities have been given to the Dept of Commerce and the people working under Commerce Secretary Gina M. Raimondo, the former governor of Rhode Island. Each of the DPA’s released today targets specific components of the solar industry [SOURCE LINK].
Obviously, this massive shift in the governmental takeover of energy development is part of facilitating the aforementioned “Green New Deal.” The approach follows a pattern that is transparent for those who are capable of accepting things as they are, not as we would wish them to be.
Joe Biden shut down domestic energy development, cancelled pipelines, cancelled leases, retracted the ability to drill in ANWAR (Alaska), and triggered massive new regulatory approaches from the Commerce, Interior and Energy departments. The resulting increases in oil, natural gas, gasoline, electricity and energy costs overall – which became fuel on the furnace of inflation, have now created the energy crisis that Joe Biden is declaring a national emergency to solve.
Biden himself has no idea what is happening; he is simply following the instructions of the policy operators who are in control of the administration. It is the people in the circles of Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders and the climate change activists within the DC bureaucracy that are executing the nuts-and-bolts shifts. They tell Biden what to do, and he cluelessly does it. We are the people who end up paying the price for their effort.
It would appear the primary goal is to push everything as fast as possible beyond an infrastructure threshold that could be reversed if/when the radicals are rebuked by the victims, us.
The democrat-socialists are ‘all-in‘ on this economic kamikaze mission.
The radicals took off on inauguration day with a nuclear economic device and only enough fuel for a one-way trip. They are nearing their destination.
Additionally, using the anniversary of June 6, 1944, is not coincidental. These sickos and ideologues sit around worshipping sustainable algae cakes and giggling about this stuff.
What say ye?
Are they afraid that they will lose Election 2022 by such a great margin that the election fraud needed will be impossible?
And so, get as much of this wreckage accomplished as soon as possible, so that President Trump will not be able to put all of Humpty-Dumpty together again between 2024 and 2028.
No Republican will win in 2024 with mail-in ballots in the swing states. What, they’re just going to put the last election cheat mechanism back on the shelf?
They have to find a new way to cheat. The last fraud is exposed. Look for all the stops to be breached. Monkeypox or similar will replace covid. They (Dems) have trouble with somethiong to run on, so they’ll try to force GOP to be unable to run. Don’t forget they have the MSM in their back pockets. Big influence over the corporations and Big Money. They control a large part of Government and the use of Executive Orders. Don’t forget that printing money is a 24/7 op. That looks like they’re in control overall. The Left have to overcome the exodus of the Dem vote, thus the open borders.
I suspect they will cheat the same way because they got away with it.
Dont forget, the republicans are on their side along with the corrupt media.
He can go scorched earth and declare everything the regime did gone and then have them all arrested for treason. Then dismantle 90% of DC and let the us get back to pre 1900s small govt. let the people and industry prosper
I’d declare war against the un and wef etc and have them stand war crimes for this 2030 communist bukksheeit
In order to do that, he would have to have 100% backing by the GOP. Do you really think that’s even remotely possible right now?
He had his opportunity when he was president to do this. Its clear that a President is powerless unless he has the support of the military. Which appears they are on the side of the globalist. At least the leadership.
He’s WAY too optimistic in this column:
Elections Won’t Fix This
JUNE 4, 2022
https://brownstone.org/articles/elections-wont-fix-this/
Excerpts:
The administrative state is THE government. Elections? They provide just enough difference to lead people to believe they are in charge, but are they? Not according to the organization chart. This is the real problem with the US system today. This system cannot be found in the US Constitution. No one alive voted for it. It just gradually evolved – metastasized – over time. The last 30 months have demonstrated that it is a real cancer eating out the heart of the American experience, and not just here: every country in the world deals with some version of this problem.
Uprooting the entrenched, arrogant, hegemonic, and unaccountable administrative state that believes it operates with no limit to its power is the great challenge of our time. The public is probably nowhere near aware of the full extent of the problem. Until voters themselves figure it out [in a games and circuses addicted idiocracy, they WON’T until AFTER everything falls apart – W], the politicians will have no mandate even to test a solution. [hell, they’re a willing part of it, fool – W]
Let Me Help.
Except that’s what we thought would happen the first time. Not sure I have confidence in anyone defeating the beast unless they simply disband most gov’t agencies and policies and start over. And you’d have to fire entire departs to start, then get Senate approvals for leaders… and all of the leaders would need to be from outside the gov’t or industry they’re tasked to oversee. Seems like seceding would be easier.
Nobody in jail yet, while state lawmakers and governors slow walk tepid investigations through the midterms. But Navarro has been perp walked and indicted for ignoring a subpoena just ahead of the 1/6 committee’s prime time miniseries. So, there’s that.
I’d say that Zuckerbucks and the dems have little incentive to play it safe in the upcoming elections. What’s a 20 million vote deficit when you have Dominion doing the count?
And of course Shiff has butt-loads of new evidence that he’s about to present, right? Who knows where voter sentiments will be after the hearings [snark, snark]?
Meanwhile, McConnell stares at the swinging ball bearings on his desk while he meditates on how best to respond to Biden declaring a national emergency because hard leftist policies aren’t being enacted immediately without impediment. Surely we’ll be hearing from the Minority Leader soon.
First, baby formula, our entire nationwide supply seized for the approximately 150,000 illegal aliens amassing on the border for an overpowering invasion…Defense Production Act.
Second, solar panels which will in no way meet our energy needs, but will pay off China, which owns the whole Biden family and probably most of the government…Defense Production Act.
The simple slippery Marxist mechanism for total control of the means of production, using our Constitution and laws against us.
Peter B gave the game away yesterday. The Stalinist takeover of our dead Republic is nearly complete.
Well, the baby formula infrastructure has always been the lynchpin of a strong national defense. It’s a known fact. DPA is entirely appropriate here. We can all sleep better at night knowing that stewardship of our nation’s defense is on Biden’s Top 10 List of Important Executive Priorities.
And now for tonight’s Top 10 List of Biden’s Important Executive Priorities. Heeere we go…
Biden approved Kendamil formula to be brought in. “plant based”
And there’s this…there may be no formula but something better is coming.
BIOMLK…a genetically engineered formula straight out of the Frankenstein bio(weapon)labs, funded by Gates, Zuckerberg and Bezos… guaranteed to be way healthier for our babies than that old normal stuff now sitting at the border in readiness for the illegals and their offspring. And all paid for by your and my tax dollars
So there’s that…every cloud has a silver(ish) lining.
That’s basically it.
Do as much damage as fast as possible
This is their one shot, their dream is within their grasp.
They’re going for broke.
If they can’t rig the election, we might not see very many Democrats elected for a long time. The issue there is the Left will over power and run as RINOs. Taking over the House is almost a given for the Right. The Senate is a whole ‘nother ball game.
Abuse of power!
Solyndra redux! So this is ChiCom Joe’s version! Worked so well for obama and his corrupt corporate cronies not so well for us tax payers! The results will be the same just more billions of dollars wasted chasing the fool’s errand of cheap clean renewable energy to save the planet!
But now with this sweeping emergency action, assuming it is not stopped in the courts, our nation will face the gravest of dangers because the US, at the end of this green trail, won’t have sufficient energy capacity to face a dire military threat, say, from China or elsewhere, not to mention a possible defense of Taiwan, which will certainly be needed at some point.
Of course, Mr. Imbecile made sure to use first all the oil in the strategic oil reserve (there ain’t no green energy reserve, that’s for sure!) that was specifically dedicated for use during military emergencies.
In my opinion, this action by Biden has no bearing on any presumed emergency, and is thus, legally speaking, arbitrary and not within his constitutional authority owing to the fact that the rise in gas and energy prices is due to insufficient fossil fuel resources which are readily available if the Nation so wishes to tap their resources.
Consider that emergency measures are meant to remedy short-term difficulties. By the time that sufficient green energy reaches the marketplace such that it is capable of reversing inflationary pressures, the average citizen will have slipped into deep poverty and will no longer be able to afford a vehicle.
But, no worries. I’m sure Austin and Milley have gamed all of this out a million different ways.
What? You say they don’t deal with military issues any more? That CDC is now in charge of defense matters?
Okay, that’s cool! Wallensky has done a great job up to now. I’m sure she’s qualified for whatever!?!?
Please don’t quote me!
I’m no lawyer (Thank you Jesus) but I don’t think the courts can stop it. Declaring the use of the DPA is a function of Pudding Pants power as Commander in Chief. As such, isn’t the military bound to honor its implantation? Will they? Will they continue to if it proves as disastrous as predicted?
Pending any ruling from a court, the military IS bound to honor the Commander in Chief’s directives.
However, a court ruling could strike down the invocation of DPA on a number of grounds.
Whoever may remember Trump’s Muslim Ban controversy (not its proper name, just a slanderous nickname!) will recall that this executive action seemed to be so fully within the President’s executive authority (and certainly was!). Nonetheless, Chief Justice Roberts enjoined Trump’s order temporarily because (incredibly!) certain charities and universities could be disadvantaged in some way.
We will see if business coalitions will sue concerning Biden’s action. I believe they should.
Clearly, they did not heed any engineers concerning feasibility.
Of course, the stated reasons why it should be done, are not the actual reasons for why as we all know. Lies are easier for some to accept than the truth.
FJB and the entire DNC/MSM.
This is what you call massive wealth transfer.
To the Chinese! FJB’s owners.
The Chinese do not own the FED who makes money on our countries debt, nor do they own the pharmaceutical companies of the covid fraud, or vanguard or blackrock who own everything. FJB’s entire cabinet is full of globalists/communists almost as much as FDR’s but they aren’t Chinese.
Why do the rich continually steal from us by force?
GREED! =WEALTH= POWER. But perhaps they should read what our Lord said about the wealthy after death.
Covid trained way too many people to comply with government created emergencies.
NAILED IT.
I know this is too logical, but how will driving up the cost of energy solve the reason for this “national emergency” – “that current and future increases in energy prices are likely to do severe damage to the economy and the lives of all Americans”?
Can the states challenge this?
Yes, they can, but will the corrupt state politicians do so and will their citizens make them.
NYS Kathy Hochul will not challenge this, in my opinion. She will latch on with all the strength she can muster without a care to what she is doing to the already overtaxed and struggling people of NYS! An opportunist who never met a far left, radical idea she didn’t like and thought enacting it would get her elected.
Yeah Hochul is definitely off the Rails! What’s up with these Radical Women? Most look like men And most have facelifts. Just an observation.
Maybe they’re betting on bankrupting the middle class.
What a major league arse this demted old fool is.
I’m sure Kevin and Mitch are on board with this as well.
Undoubtedly! And Trump endorsed Kevin McCarthy. I’m shaking my head at that.
I’m now pulling for DeSantis. Trump lost me with his endorsement of McCarthy.
… the country has been hijacked!
Yeah, it’s an emergency (not), so, let’s fund solutions (not) that may yield results (not) in a decade (not).
Obama did this for several of his big donors in 2008. They supposedly set up some solar plants or ??? in California & then went belly up within a month.
Not sure what made me think of this.
Anyone remember the car buy back program in 2008. Damn why do I have a feeling that this might be next if we buy electric cars. H3LL are already having brown outs ion many states, how the H3ll can America support Electric cars.
A 3rd party started the day the election was stolen would have been a…………..ah, never mind.
Cloward Piven
Alinsky
Good commie is a dead one
To that I respond:
Aliens 1986
“I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit…… It’s the only way to be sure”
Remember what happened when they didn’t ?
Like every other demo-commie boondoggle, this will be devastatingly expensive and completely fail. Gas will be $10+/gal., electrical grid will collapse, & food shortages will reign supreme.
When my democrat voting neighbors come calling, well, you reap what you sow.
Yep. Those rolling August black outs are gonna be fun…
Wait ’til you see the winter version.
As we move into summer and things get hotter, no energy will not be there to cool homes. Then when winter comes there will be a massive amount of people who don’t have the energy to keep warm. Remember what happened in Texas when an ice storm froze all the windmills. Industrial production will almost shut down because the power sources are so unreliable they won’t be able to run efficiently.
Our government is full of bureaucrats who Who are uninformed environmentalists with no common sense or knowledge of what it actually takes to change The largest Economy in the world over to so-called green energy.
You give them to much credit the UNIPARTY does not know things. They know exactly what they are doing. They want to centralize our economy to control us just as the Soviet Union did. They want us compliant and miserable.
So glad we have a congress to vote on such matters.
Congress having any role in laws is only required when you have a Patriot, Nationalist, executive. Just like free speech, no one above the law , etc. et Al.
Seems to me the national emergency is the Biden Administration itself and everything it’s doing that is ruining our country. One effing DISASTER after another!! How much are we supposed to take?? This is a coup – our system of representative government has been sold by the representatives who are lining their pockets.
Today is D Day. Those brave men who died ….didn’t die for this.
Government cheese because food price emergency.
I’m beginning to think they’re going to ask Kim Jong-un to advise them on how to beat the citizens into submission.
Oh, it’s “D-Day” alright, except this time the “D” will stand for our nation’s coming economic Depression!
Which, inevitably, will trigger a further round of edicts, including that old Jimmy Carter favorite of fixing natural gas prices.
And, of course, like last time, will result in there not being any!
Bon voyage, folks.
I see this more as a wrecking operation with grift – solar panels? Please. You could cover Nevada in solar panels, hirer thousands of illegal aliens to wipe them off every day and it still wouldn’t budge the needle for Americas energy needs. Would like to know the money flow, i.e., how many Democrat donors will be greased to which money circles back to said Democrats and their families. Not unlike the Ukraine hustle. Grifting and stealing elections are the two core competencies of Democrats.
Repub states are just as bought in to the global hoax as any others. Some more committed than even liberal states. Anything marketed as consumer scale solar is heavily subsidized by everyone else
I know Louisiana is.
People will suffer immensely, and things will get out of hand.
We’re there.
This is a horror show!!!
Someone said it best the other day…green energy isn’t ready for prime time.
You don’t leave one job before you have another one!
How are these beautiful people going to get their jets to Davos?
Ugghh everyday it’s something more insane to digest.
“Green” energy will never be ready for primetime.
At least not until the lunatics reduce the amount of people on the planet to their magical 500,000,000 number.
Declares national emergency on the same day he twets out that “. . . America has achieved the most robust recovery in modern history.”
W.T.F., Pick one or the other. Are we in an emergency or have we achieved a robust recovery?
Someone attach a generator to the W.H. because the spin coming from there could power the whole world.
I see gasoline prices are approaching the $10/gal threshold in Cali..
And coming to a station near you before you know it!
“Never go full retard…!”
Good Lord.
RE: suspended tariffs…
“Biden to delay new solar tariffs in bid to boost industry”
https://thehill.com/news/administration/3512969-biden-to-exempt-southeast-asian-nations-from-solar-tariffs-for-two-years/
President Biden signed an order on Monday that will exempt Southeast Asian nations from any new tariffs on solar panels for two years in an effort to boost the solar industry beleaguered by an ongoing Commerce Department investigation.
Huh???
The Commerce Department is currently investigating whether solar panel part companies in Southeast Asia are being used to circumvent U.S. tariffs on Chinese solar companies, a probe that began in March following a complaint from California-based Auxin Solar.
Aaahhhhhhhhh… yes… I see.
Get used to sh*t like this, folks. #BuildBackBoondoggle.
#BuildBackBoondoggle
CLEVER! HOPE OTHERS SEE AND USE.
I’m voting my way out of this. It’s the Constitutional way. We did it in Blackface’s Kanadistan…wait
Well, China did well investing in Joe and Hunter.
Ideologues like these people always surround themselves with sycophants who tell them that anything they decide to do is “perfectly okay.” Barak Obama was one of the first, and now that he is back in the Oval Office – the “paper President” having been consigned to a television studio across the street – the sycophants are chiming louder. “Defense Production Act!” Sure! Why not? We, the “six or or five hundred” people who call ourselves “elites,” are really the ones who can tell 332.5 million other people what to do.
Perhaps it is this fear which now drives things like the “J6 Committee.” Because they’ve read all the world history books without ever bothering to read how those books end. Their official acts grow more preposterous by the day, as they wear their spray-painted dresses to dinner parties on the beach. No one is sober enough to recognize that “the sea is getting closer, much closer.” And that the only escape route from their “private enclave” is now under water.
Here is a great article on zerohedge about the entrenched administrative state in our govt. Elections mean little when unelected folks are actually in charge.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/elections-wont-fix
I posted key excerpts from the source of that ZH repost above.
The guy who wrote the column correctly identifies THE problem (we don’t VOTE for the people ACTUALLY in charge), but makes a claim about the “30 months” he’s apparently been aware of it which shows he’s a newbie to reality and he’s far too optimistic about it ever being fixed.
So FJB and his cronies create a fuel, energy shortage, then declare a national emergency to fix it by making it even harder to have more fuel, energy from existing resources and instead chase after fantasy energy sources?
Sure would be nice if we had members of congress who would just say no to this false creation; too much to ask the press to question the powers that be.
Didn’t you get the memo? The Congress and the Media are captured and corrupted too. Our own institutations have been weaponized against us.
Well said! But it should already be assumed that members of Congress are heavily invested in green energy. That’s where the cool set, Uniparty types have been investing all their money. Biden’s move is music to their ears, therefore.
The only word out of their mouths will be ‘mum.’
Can all these declarations and orders from der Fuehrer’s handlers be rolled back when the Republicans take congress? I’ll abide by not one of them.
The members of our armed forces swear an oath to combat enemies both foreign and domestic. When the Hell are US ARMY tanks going to break through the fence at the white house, park on the lawn and honor their oath ???
Never. They’ve all gone woke!
Damn, your right. We better hang on to our guns then.
I am not a conspiracy type of person however, given that this happened today I am now wondering if an event will be manufactured to cancel the November 2022 mid-term elections.
I have always stated the Marxists create the very problems they will then claim they have the answer to. These actions taken by the installed one today proves it!
IF we are successful and the election takes place and the win is as large as many believe it will be the Republicans MUST defund all of these efforts regardless of how sever a government shut down may be.
They don’t need an event as long as they have mail-in voting, Dominion voting machines, and lawfare to back them up.
They will use Monkey Pox, abortion/race/food riots, maybe nuclear war to cancel the fall elections or make it 100% by mail. You can see that they clearly have no concern whatsoever about trying to win the elections in the fall, meaning that there will be no elections or completely controlled elections.
They can proceed as they like because they have had no real opposition to any of their economic destruction agenda. The population is too dumbed down to care.
One can only hope that hunger will be a motivator. To stop this at this point we will need massive civil disobedience, like a near universal strike.
It’s either that, we starve in mass or we have to resort to things we don’t want to think about.
Exactly where is that demented old fool sitting in front of ?
It sure as hell is not the Oval Office and that background looks fake
Somebody should ask them to define “clean” energy. First, there is no verified, real proof of human caused global warming. Second, hydro power kills anadromous fish. Windmills kill an unsustainable number of eagles and many other avian species. Solar requires massive space and renders that space non-usable for other uses. Comparatively, oil and gas are just as “clean” as these.
We exhale co2. Problem used to be carbon monoxide. We took care of that for the most part so the lefty elites had to come up with another monster hiding under the bed, thus killer CO2.
Lefties have been successful selling fear of global warming. Not so much for the right selling the real data that disputes the lefties and disputes the manipulated data.
UniParty will love this emergency declaration because power and control over the proles.
Bottom line there is no real data to base this “emergency” declaration on. Will USA public buy? Likely. Because of propaganda and lies.
Russia and China are making out like bandits under this OBiden Regime.
The kick backs to the DC Swamp have to be astronomical.
Thx for that valuable information!
I have a feeling the totally uninformed who only see what’s directly in front of themselves and just snippets of headlines (i.e the general public) seeing this crisis and believe climate change and consumption itself directly caused this – that Al Gore’s dire predictions have come true and this is the earth dying.
(i.e the general public)
In other words, an idiocracy.
Man caused climate change, is a HOAX. This can only mean, that this is evil. PERIOD.
That is the real truth: It’s a HOAX, designed by Collectivists to create an excuse for ‘Global Governance’. Who will be the first prominent American to denounce the hoax and its perpetrators?
The desperation and frenzy with which the Democrats are ramping everything up before November is telling.
They fear they are going to be decimated as a party.
The election steal will be beyond what we experienced in 2022. I am doubting the Republicans are even remotely prepared.
Unprepared, complicit…whatever.
“I am doubting the Republicans are even remotely prepared.”
You assume they care. Where are their challenges to the last election?
So the upper middle class liberals who watch Hamilton and the well to do who are well to do because they *know people* – through this transition and on the other side of whereever it leads, they are going to somehow make out just FINE aren’t they?
“Solar energy is a rapidly growing market, which should be good news for the environment. Unfortunately there’s a catch. The replacement rate of solar panels is faster than expected and given the current very high recycling costs, there’s a real danger that all used panels will go straight to landfill (along with equally hard-to-recycle wind turbines). Regulators and industry players need to start improving the economics and scale of recycling capabilities before the avalanche of solar panels hits.”
https://hbr.org/2021/06/the-dark-side-of-solar-power
God help us this winter.
Dangerous is such an understatement. They are literally playing with fire and we the people are the ones who will get burned.
I am so sick of all if them.
We dont even have sun in the winter and they think solar panels are the answer.
I hate them all.
The Biden Junta are like the bastard love children of George Orwell & Ayn Rand.
Solar panels contain heavy metals and no one has come up with a plan on how to safely dispose of them.
Heat pumps do not work in the Northeast or the Northwest where winter temperatures go down far below freezing.
Electric vehicle battery packs lose 40% of their storage capacity at 20° and below. Once again not exactly a great feature in the north east or the north west of the nation.
Climate change is a con game. No temperature change found for the last 30 years in the upper atmosphere.
Solar energy is a fantasy designed for adult idiots who still believe in unicorns and fairies.
90% of our energy grid is powered by diesel fuel or natural gas. The price of electricity is likewise skyrocketing.
Here in the Northeast currently if you want to buy heating oil as a new customer it’s going to cost five dollars per gallon. Do the math that’s a lot of cash to keep from freezing to death in the winter.
These scumbags in DC care nothing for the American people.
Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project(KOLO-TV)
By Associated Press
Published: Jul. 30, 2020 at 4:56 PM EDT
LAS VEGAS (AP) – Federal officials have announced a settlement to recover $200 million in taxpayer funds from Tonopah Solar Energy in a solar project that never showed a profit.
The $1 billion Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Plant, which received $737 million in loan guarantees in 2011, has been shuttered since April 2019. U.S. Department of Energy spokeswoman Shaylyn Hynes told the Review-Journal that the deal still must be approved by a bankruptcy court.
https://www.kolotv.com/2020/07/30/settlement-reached-in-failed-solar-project/
Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) has opened a formal investigation into the exact failure mode behind the destruction at the Yamakura Dam floating PV installation. In the end, the ministry seeks to draw up a plan to revamp not just the dam, but also the arrays that are still intact. This is a learning exercise that should be closely followed, as floating PV is enjoying growing popularity.
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2020/02/22/the-weekend-read-dont-throw-caution-to-the-wind/
FYI, PV= solar power cells
aka – Photovoltaic