The US Department of Energy has issued a conditional commitment for a partial guarantee of a $344 million loan for solar PV installer SolarCity. The company will install rooftop solar PV systems on as many as 160,000 houses on US military bases. The so-called ‘SolarStrong’ project is expected create more than $1 billion in new solar PV installations and consume some 371 megawatts of solar PV modules.The US solar sector has taken a beating in recent weeks with the bankruptcies of panel makers Evergreen Solar and Solyndra. Does this new project help any US solar maker or in any way advance US clean energy goals?
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