Some DOE loan guarantee recipients have financial woes; ‘traditional pattern for start-ups’

摘要

The Department of Energy maintains that it does not takenundue financial risks with Americans’ tax dollars when issuingnloan guarantees to solar-energy companies, wind-turbinenmanufacturers and other energy-related companies. nBut some of the firms that DOE has chosen to backnfinancially have never earned a profit, while others suffer fromnfinancial woes that may cause them to get dropped from nstock exchanges.