And while the Nikkei stock average has picked up 8% this year amid signs the government is pressing banks harder to clean up their loan mess, share prices are languishing at levels they first hit in the mid-1980s.
Forster helped steer Norwich back to the Championship last season with 18 clean sheets while on-loan from Newcastle United.
Congress passed a major energy bill that included subsidies for alternative and renewable fuels, loan guarantees for clean tech and reliability standards for utility companies.
Recently, Eli Lehrer of the pro-market R Street Institute made another suggestion: Instead of simply attacking federal loan guarantees for clean-tech firms such as Solyndra, the federal government should get out of the business of subsidizing the energy sector entirely.
Cutting the DOE program would "kill all clean energy projects with pending DOE loan guarantee applications, causing the loss of tens of thousands of jobs and many other benefits, " the Solar Energy Industries Association said in a statement.
When loan officers present loans as clean and bright and shiny as possible, there is a higher probability of approval.
As such, it has fought hard not just for nuclear loan guarantees but also for tougher clean air standards that give it a leg up over those utilities that rely on coal.
"Without the federal loan guarantee program, private-sector capital earmarked for this and other clean-energy projects will stay on the sidelines, " NRG Chief Financial Officer Christian Schade said by email.
Antelope Valley is one of several clean-technology projects that haven't yet received any payments from the federal government under a loan-guarantee program that closed all deals more than four months ago.
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