Carl Zichella, the Sierra Club's director of western renewable programs, said California Unions for Reliable Energy had been effective at extracting concessions that aid the environment.
"It's about as perfect a place as you're going to find in the state of California for a solar project like this," said Carl Zichella, who until late July was the Sierra Club's Western renewable programs director.
"Are the Office of Science's basic research programs a lower priority for this administration, when compared with these renewable programs?" he asked.
Chinese officials, working on their own enormous renewables program, have consulted with the state's energy experts.
"It's probably the most aggressive renewables program of any state," said John P. Cahill, a senior adviser to the governor.
Additionally, the costly $2 billion project is likely to sap resources from renewables programs in the impoverished country.
In particular, demand-side energy efficiency programs and renewable energy programs such as community solar investments must actually benefit environmental justice communities.
We will increase, on a voluntary basis, funding for programs to bring clean affordable energy to the poorest, such as the Scaling Up Renewable Energy Program. 24.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) warned against a "knee-jerk" response to Solyndra, breaking with top Republicans as she voiced her support for federally backed renewable energy programs, including the loan program that aided the now-bankrupt solar manufacturer.
It created the country's first renewable engineering program.
Dr. Brown is deputy director of the energy efficiency and renewable energy program of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
