Sentences with phrase «grants and loan guarantees»

Here in the U.S., meanwhile, the Energy Department's support for next - generation photovoltaic research amounted to $ 21.7 million in grants that were doled out in 2007 to two dozen colleges and universities, a figure that pales by comparison with the billions of dollars in grants and loan guarantees the government is handing out for new industrial - scale projects.

While the USDA payment was chicken - scratch in the world of federal subsidies, grants and loan guarantees, it shows how risky to the taxpayers such federal programs are.

A growing number of European and Asian solar companies are opening factories in the U.S. to take advantage of a growing market and the economic stimulus plan by the federal government to give billion of dollars in grants and loan guarantees to renewable energy equipment manufacturers and power plant developers.

Many recipients went bankrupt despite huge taxpayer grants and loan guarantees.

Regardless of where the contracts, grants and loan guarantees are heading, though, little of the economic juice has gotten out to jump - start the energy field — or job market.

In 2005 and 2007, energy legislation was passed that increased the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) and also created a number of Department of Energy and U.S. Department of Agriculture funding vehicles (grants and loan guarantees) to help the biofuels industry meet mandated production goals.

Not exact matches

The process of granting loans to businesses is regulated by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to ensure fairness and guarantee nondiscrimination and disclosure of all aspects of the process.

According to a recent study, impact investing in the US would not exist without the support of and partnership with the federal government through grants, loans, and guarantees.

Since 1990, FAME has provided financial education and outreach, as well as grant, scholarship, loan, loan guarantee, loan forgiveness and college savings programs.

The bill, largely the same as the version introduced last Congress, would give school districts and food service administrators the tools and resources they need to prepare meals that meet the updated USDA school food standards by providing loan guarantees for kitchen infrastructure and equipment upgrades, authorizing grants for small but critical equipment purchases, and supporting innovative training opportunities to strengthen the school food service workforce.

If Solyndra, on the other hand, requires taxpayer - guaranteed (and taxpayer - subsidized) grants or loans, that's what is being opposed.

The World Bank is supervising the project and has granted a loan of $ 500 million, but it still needs parliamentary approval, which is far from guaranteed.

According to Public Works Financing, the collapse of Abengoa would also deal a blow to the Obama administration's clean energy program, since «starting in 2010, the U.S. Department of Energy provided Abengoa with loan guarantees and grants to support $ 4 billion in financing for two utility scale solar power projects in Arizona and California.»

In addition to the TIFIA loan guarantee, funding sources include $ 1.5 billion in Federal grants, $ 560 million in local matching funds, and $ 217 million in Grant Anticipation Notes.

This serves to also confirm the monthly salary that the applicant is earning, and once enough to cover the required payment is guaranteed, bad credit mortgage loans are much more likely to be granted.

While approval is never guaranteed, bad credit mortgage loans are more likely to be granted when the lender is confident that their investment is safe, and their money will be repaid.

Federal grants, and federally guaranteed student loans are based on need, rather than on credit - worthiness.

This is to guarantee the repayment of the loan and make the lender feel more at ease about granting you the loan.

My recovery plan provides the incentives to double our nation's capacity to generate renewable energy over the next few years — extending the production tax credit, providing loan guarantees and offering grants to spur investment.

But thanks to recent government incentives — including loan guarantees, production tax credits, and cash grants — today the U.S. geothermal industry is booming.

Only public grants — or the grant equivalent of loans, guarantees and other financial instruments — should count as part of the $ 100 billion or any future climate finance targets.

Every time a government grant (or loan guarantee) is awarded in any context we should be told two figures: the amount in dollars — and the number of taxpayers whose annual taxes will be required to pay for it.

To improve the public's access to information about the various federal energy programs that exist, IER compiled a comprehensive database that contains the most significant forms of federal subsidies for energy producers and energy products: grants, loans and loan guarantees, and tax subsidies.

The Renewable Energy System and Energy Efficiency Improvement Guaranteed Loan and Grant Program provides financial assistance to agricultural producers and rural small businesses to purchase, install, and construct renewable energy systems; make energy efficiency improvements; use renewable technologies that reduce energy consumption; and participate in energy audits, renewable energy development assistance, and feasibility studies.

Rhone Resch, president and chief executive of the Solar Energy Industries Association, said that while the loan guarantee program helped finance emerging technologies that were «higher - risk projects by definition,» the grant program aided «extremely low - risk projects where you're using off - the - shelf technology.»

The loan guarantees of grants made by the Department of Energy are turning out to be a huge scandal for the Obama administration, rivaling the Department of Justice's «Fast and Furious» gun - running program to the drug cartels of Mexico.

But Southern chief executive David Ratcliffe noted that the company would not draw the loan guarantees and begin construction until the NRC grants a license, which it does not expect until late 2011.

Available as pure grants, guaranteed loans, or a combination thereof, REAP funds can help a small farmer install solar panels, wind turbines, biomass systems, and more.

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So far, though, most objections to the giant solar projects planned for the Southwest have been washed away by a tsunami of money from Wall Street, lured to invest by billions of dollars in federal grants, tax credits and loan guarantees and a fast - track regulatory approval process.

However, before anyone in Washington celebrates too much, the U.S. figure was achieved thanks in large part to support initiatives such as the federal loan guarantee program and a Treasury grant program which have now expired.»

Boeing receives some of the highest federal, state and local subsidies in the United States, having received approximately US$ 457 million in non-payable federal grants between 2000 and 2014, US$ 64 billion in federal loans and loan guarantees and US$ 18 - billion contract awards in 2014.

At the Federal Highway Administration, Tom led a national team of more than 50 lawyers providing legal and policy counsel to the agency's leadership on a wide range of regulatory and policy issues affecting transportation infrastructure, including environmental review and permitting for transportation projects; compliance with Buy America requirements; investigation of civil rights complaints filed under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act; implementation of federal grant, loan, and loan guarantee programs for transportation projects; and development of major rulemakings and guidance documents implementing recent federal transportation legislation.

Significant matters / transactions include: Advised Xstrata South Africa (Proprietary) Limited on its offer to purchase Lonmin plc's entire issued share capital, # 5 billion Advised Telkom SA Limited on its unbundling of a 35 % stake in Vodacom Group (Proprietary) Limited, R35 billion Advised Edgars Consolidated Stores Limited on its acquisition by Bain Capital, R25, 5 billion Advised The Standard Bank of South Africa Limited and FirstRand Bank Limited (acting through its Rand Merchant Bank division) on the introduction of BEE equity participation in Sasol Limited and their arranging financing therefore, R25, 4 billion Advised FirstRand Bank Limited (acting through its Rand Merchant Bank division) and Nedbank Limited (acting through its Nedbank Capital division) as lenders to Richards Bay Titanium (Proprietary) Limited and Richards Bay Mining (Proprietary) Limited, R19 billion Advised Citibank N.A. on a bridge loan granted to Turquoise Moon Trading 427 (Proprietary) Limited by Citibank N.A. and JP Morgan Chase, R10 billion Advised British American Tobacco plc on its secondary listing on the JSE, R550 billion Advised Pioneer Foods Limited on its listing on the JSE Securities Exchange, R6 billion Advised the South African National Roads Agency Limited in respect of the Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project involving the construction and upgrade of the Gauteng freeway and the procurement of an open road tolling system, R44 billion Advised Absa Bank Limited (acting though its Absa Capital division), FirstRand Bank Limited (acting through its Rand Merchant Bank division) and Vunani Capital (as co-lead arrangers) and the South Africa National Roads Agency Limited (as issuer) on the establishment of its South African Guaranteed Domestic Medium Term Note Programme and the subsequent issue of notes thereunder, R32 billion Advised Shoprite Checkers (Proprietary) Limited on the proposed Brait Private Equity private equity buy - out (this did not proceed), R12 billion Advised Reclamation Holdings (Proprietary) Limited and various shareholders on the acquisition by Capitalworks Private Equity SP GP (Proprietary) Limited and Old Mutual Life Assurance Company South Africa Limited of a 20 % equity stake in Reclamation Holdings (Proprietary) Limited from various shareholders, R511 million Clients include: Multinationals, listed companies, financial institutions, entrepreneurs and Government

The CEO of ATSIS will take all reasonable steps to ensure that ATSIS does not make grants or loans or offer contracts or provide guarantees to organisations in circumstances where such grant or provision would be precluded by my Conflict of Interests Directions issued 24 December 2002 and amended 3 February 2003.

The ability to raise finance is not just affected by the details of land title, but also importantly by whether there is a market for that land title; the viability of the proposed development; and other financial factors governing the grant of a loan, such as income, projected income or potential government guarantees (see Chapter 3).

On March 27, 2013, the U. S. Department of Agriculture Office of Rural Development issued Administrative Notice (AN) 4711 regarding the use of 2010 Census data in the administration of direct loan, loan guarantee and grant programs across Rural Development programs.

Providing federal assistance to high risk property owners, including guaranteed loans, grants and buyouts in order to build higher and keep NFIP rates affordable; 3.

USDA Rural Development may be able to assist these buyers, he says, as «we offer a variety of loans, grants, and loan guarantees to build, buy, or improve single - family properties.»