ELAM: Meet your new energy secretary - Odessa American: Dennis Elam
Dennis Elam
Dennis Elam is an associate professor at Texas A&M San Antonio and a 1966 graduate of Andrews High School and blogs at https://professorelam.typepad.com/markets/ Posted: Sunday, December 20, 2020 3:00 am
Solyndra received more than half-a-billion dollars from taxpayers through the Obama administrationâs massive stimulus bill in 2009 and filed for bankruptcy in 2011. On Friday, The Wall Street Journalâs editorial board wrote about another failure from the Obama era, this one costing taxpayers as much as $510 million. The company, Tonopah Solar Energy, operated the Crescent Dunes solar plant in Nevada, which received $737 million in guaranteed loans during the Obama administration. Tonopah was granted a Chapter 11 bankruptcy plan in early December.