In such cases, the cash grant program was essential to keeping the project financially viable, under construction, and putting Americans to work.

FORBES: Media Controversy Over Stimulus-Funded Clean Energy Grant Program Lacks Substance

In other words, the grant program would have worked exactly as planned, even though the project began construction before the stimulus was enacted.

FORBES: Critics of Clean Energy Stimulus Program Miss The Point

The argument that providing grants to clean energy projects already under construction when the stimulus program began is some kind of boondoggle misses the point at both the level of an individual project, and the clean energy sector as a whole.

FORBES: Critics of Clean Energy Stimulus Program Miss The Point