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11 October 2011

Silver leaves DoE loans office?

Jonathan Silver has resigned as executive director of the De­part­ment of Energy’s loan pro­gramme office. Silver has been head of the office since Novem­ber 2009, and had submitted his resignation to the secretary of state for energy, Stephen Chu, in July, when it became apparent that the office would not receive funding to replace expiring authorisations. Replac­ing Silver as the office’s head is David Frantz, who ran it before Silver’s arrival, and had worked at Opic before joining the DoE.

While Silver arrived after the closing of the politically conten­tious $535 million loan guaran­tee for solar module manufacturer Solyndra, and decided to leave before it became politically contentious, his departure comes at a difficult time for the programme. Congress has fol­low­ed up not renewing authorisations for the bulk of its pro­grammes with investigations into the Solyndra loan....


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