奥巴马批准太阳能发展贷款18.5亿美元

    美国总统奥巴马说，拨款将确保创造5000个工作机会，并支持美国第一家彻夜发电的太阳能发电厂。
    奥巴马再次强调了低碳技术在带领美国走出经济衰退中将起到的关键作用。他在星期六的每周讲话中宣布将为两个大型太阳能项目担保近20亿的贷款。预计这两个项目共将产生5000个工作机会。
    奥巴马说，美国能源部将在本周批准贷款担保18.5亿美元，作为政府经济刺激计划的一部分，由此可鉴政府正在“加速向干净能源经济过渡，并加倍利用风能、太阳能等可再生清洁能源。 这一步将可能创造新产业并未美国的造就成千上万个新职位。
    西班牙可再生能源公司阿文戈亚太阳能公司将获14.5亿美元，以支持其在亚利桑那州索拉纳附近希拉本德的太阳能电站项目。预计该电站产生电力可满足70,000户家庭需求。
奥巴马坚持认为，该项目将对美国经济发展起到重要的推动作用。同时该电站也是美国第一个可储存能量并彻夜发电的太阳能电站。
    另有4亿美元将进入科罗拉多州的盛产太阳能囊中，以扶持该公司新建的两个新的太阳能面板制造工厂。该工厂预计创造2,000 个建筑工人岗位及1500个全职职位。

    United States President Barack Obama said loan guarantees would create 5,000 jobs and support the first US solar plant to provide energy through the night, businessgreen.com reported on Monday.
    Obama has once again underlined the crucial role that low carbon technologies will play in leading the US out of recession, using his weekly address on Saturday to announce nearly $2bn in loan guarantees to two large scale solar energy projects, which combined are expected to create up to 5,000 jobs.
    Obama said the Department of Energy would this week approve $1.85bn in loan guarantees as part of the government‘s economic stimulus package, citing the move as evidence the administration is ”accelerating the transition to a clean energy economy and doubling our use of renewable energy sources like wind and solar power - steps that have the potential to create whole new industries and hundreds of thousands of new jobs in America.”
    Spanish renewable energy firm Abengoa Solar is to receive $1.45bn in loan guarantees to help support the development of its proposed Solana solar farm near Gila Bend, Arizona, which is expected to generate enough power for around 70,000 homes.
    Obama insisted that the project would provide a major boost for the US economy, while also providing the country‘s first solar plant capable of storing energy and generating power overnight.
A further $400m in loan guarantees will be provided to Colorado-based Abound Solar Manufacturing to help support the development of two new solar panel manufacturing plants, which are expected to create 2,000 construction jobs and 1,500 permanent jobs.