All Entries Tagged With: "Solyndra"
Green Jobs: Where Do Solyndra PR Pros End Up?
Amazon.com Widgets David Miller, the former Director of Corporate Communications at bankrupt solar firm Solyndra, has resurfaced as Sr. Director of Corporate Communications at LSI Corporation. LSI builds storage and networking components. Here's an example of Miller's work at Solyndra, as cited in Politico. Rubenius, a firm that aims to build massive amounts of utility-scale [...]
The Ghost of Solyndra is Fading
I spoke with an ex-Solyndra employee soon after the unceremonious layoff performed by the bankrupt company in August. He was still in shock but was quite sure that the company would be bought intact, and would soon be churning out double glass cylinders filled with a bag and a fluid and coated with CIGS for [...]
DOE’s Steve Chu Speaks Today on Solyndra
Here are Steve Chu's prepared remarks from the DOE website: Tomorrow morning, I’ll be appearing before the House Energy and Commerce Committee to discuss the choice we face in competing for the clean energy jobs of tomorrow. I know that many of you share my strong feelings on this crucial issue, so I wanted to [...]
Solyndra Executive Bonuses Kept Coming in 2011
While Solyndra burned, the executives fiddled — and kept feeding themselves healthy bonuses. Dana Hull of the San Jose Mercury News read the 277-page Solyndra bankruptcy documents so you wouldn't have to. She uncovered the fact that Solyndra bankruptcy law firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher earned $ 616,838 this summer — including $ 275,000 on [...]
Barncat Jones sings “The Solyndra Song.” Elvis style.
I'm sure the solar industry, the DOE, and Solyndra's VC investors such as Rockport, CMEA, Redpoint, and USVP would have preferred Solyndra achieve immortality through a business success story and huge IPO. Instead they've enabled the career of Barncat Jones. Mr. Jones has a full repertoire of politically-informed songs leaning, nay, tumbling to the right [...]
Fox News Equating SunPower with Solyndra
I've just spent some time watching, and re-watching, and re-watching solar and business experts Bill O' Reilly, Steve Doucy, Megyn Kelly, Lou Dobbs, and Michelle Malkin pillory SunPower for the $ 1.2 billion Department of Energy Loan Guarantee. Fox is analyzing, in their unique style, the $ 1.237 billion loan guarantee from the DOE to [...]
Solyndra CEO to Take the Fifth: Part 1
It looks like Friday is the day that key that investors in Solyndra, the now-bankrupt Fremont, California thin-film solar firm, get questioned by Reps. Henry A. Waxman (D-CA) and Diana DeGette (D-Colo.) at the House Energy and Commerce investigative subcommittee. Executives from the two family funds, Argonaut Private Equity and Madrone Capital Partners, will be [...]
Update: SolarCity and SolarStrong Lose to a Congress with Solyndra Fever
The repercussions of the Solyndra debacle and investigation are impacting real low-risk and valuable solar projects. The Department of Energy informed SolarCity that it can't finalize the company's offer of a $ 275 million loan guarantee by a Sept. 30 deadline and attributed it to the requirements of the Solyndra documentation witch-hunt. The program, dubbed [...]
Solyndra CEO and CFO Pleading the Fifth: Part 2
What did Solyndra's executive team know and when did they know it? It looks like Friday is the day that key that the senior executives in Solyndra, the now-bankrupt Fremont, California thin-film solar firm, get questioned by Reps. Henry A. Waxman (D-CA) and Diana DeGette (D-Colo.) at the House Energy and Commerce investigative subcommittee to [...]
Solyndra Hearing in DC Today
What did Solyndra's executive team know and when did they know it? We won't find that out tomorrow morning at the House Energy & Commerce’s hearing because CEO Brian Harrison, and CFO W.G. Stover, Jr. aren't showing up. Here's why, according to a statement from Solyndra company spokesman: Given the timing for the hearing, legal [...]
