FuelFix Digs In On Romney's Green Energy Claim

A bit more from FuelFix on Governor Romney’s claim that half of the green energy companies benefiting from federal grants, loan guarantees or other perks have gone out of business:

Since Solyndra’s bankruptcy, most Republican criticism of the Obama’s green-jobs spending has focused on the loan programs run by the Department of Energy, programs that awarded $34.5 billion in loans. Here’s the list of companies and projects that received those loans:
There are 33 projects. By my count, three of the companies behind those projects have gone bankrupt — Abound Solar, Beacon Power, and Solyndra.
Definitely not half.
Now, the success of many of the companies that received funding is far from guaranteed. And one can easily question whether taxpayers got their money’s worth on all of the green stimulus spending. For example, California received $146 million in stimulus funding for a program to make homes more energy efficient. So far, the program has only served 5,130 homes. Not a lot of bang for the buck.
But the wave of bankruptcies that Romney’s comments suggest? It hasn’t happened.
 

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