Government lending.

The DOE's Loan Program Office has not distributed nearly as much in clean-energy loans as the IRA gave it access to and it's pushing hard to get loans out the door before November, WSJ reports.

The work required to get a commitment from the LPO is "brutal," one company told the WSJ, but at the same time, the governmental loan office is trying to avoid another Solyndra. A hard balance.

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Cat Clifford

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