That was just two years after winning a rare loan guarantee from the Department of Energy.
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The term of the loan guarantee to the bank RBS expires on 1 April this year.
But so far only one loan guarantee has been offered, to Southern Co.
And even NRG, with a municipal partner and high hopes for a loan guarantee, is stumbling.
Kaiser has flatly denied that he had anything to do with obtaining the loan guarantee.
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He is also responsible for the mismanagement of the Department of Energy (DOE) Loan Guarantee Program.
Last year, the Department awarded a loan guarantee to build the Kahuku wind farm in Hawaii.
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That's why we have proposed a new National Loan Guarantee Scheme to get lending going.
Since the loan guarantee was denied, the airline will anyway have to restart talks with the unions.
To receive the loan guarantee, SoloPower has to meet specific performance metrics, a company representative said.
The company secured the loan guarantee offer from the U.S. Department of Energy in 2011.
The company is hoping to build a sister plant in Ohio with the help of a federal loan guarantee.
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Now, we knew from the start that the loan guarantee program was going to entail some risk, by definition.
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Nobody is exactly sure how the loan guarantee will work or how the IMF will make its money available.
With the political fall-out from Solyndra, SoloPower will attract lots of scrutiny from critics of the Loan Guarantee program.
Adding insult to injury, that was only two years after Solyndra won a loan guarantee from the Department of Energy.
That's why they proposed tax cuts for savers and are pushing a National Loan Guarantee Scheme to help the banking crisis.
The loan guarantee means taxpayers are on the hook, and the confirmation of the bankruptcy plan means creditors lose out too.
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Former Labour Treasury Minister Lord Barnett asks about the government's new loan guarantee scheme, announced to his displeasure, in a written statement.
But the company may be able to tap a nuclear loan guarantee program that the Obama administration proposed earlier this year.
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Solyndra -- this is a loan guarantee program that predates me that historically has had support from Democrats and Republicans as well.
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This week the first loan guarantee was offered to Southern Co.
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Under the administration's plan, the government temporarily will increase the loan guarantee to 90 percent as an incentive to banks to lend.
Securing the loan guarantee from the Dept. of Energy was a two-year process that, among other things, required filling out a 600-page application.
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Like US Airways, United is trying to secure a loan guarantee from the Air Transportation Stablisation Board (ATSB), but so far without success.
The loan guarantee acts as lenders' insurance in case of default or unforeseen delay for technologies trying to go commercial for the first time.
Because the Rhode Island loan guarantee is backed by "moral obligation" bonds, the state can choose to not pay the millions borrowed by 38 Studios.
Next month, the group also will start test marketing a concept called the Soil Trust, an ambitious loan guarantee for money lent to local enterprises.
The company was hoping to use the federal loan guarantee to help pay for an additional 300 megawatts of production capacity at the same site.
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But Congress has slashed the loan guarantee program's budget to pay for other priorities, such as last year's "Cash for Clunkers" program to boost auto sales.
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