Outrage! Author of 'stimulus' linked to companies it helped
Received hundreds of millions in government grants and loans
Posted: December 14, 2011
8:14 pm Eastern
ByAaron Klein
© 2011 WND
 TJ Glauthier |
An adviser toBarack Obamawho played a key role in developing the energy provisions of the so-called stimulus bill has served on the boards of several companies that recently received government funds, including hundreds of millions in "stimulus" money.
TJ Glauthier served on Obama's 2008 White House Transition Team. He is widely credited with helping to craft the energy provisions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, also known as the "stimulus."
In addition to serving on the boards of major energy companies, Glauthier previously held two presidential appointments during the Clinton administration.
He was the Energy Department's deputy secretary and chief operating officer, the second-highest ranking official.
Earlier, he served in the White House for five years as the associate director for natural resources, energy and science intheOfficeof Management and Budget.
Glauthier is tied to several energy companies that benefited from the "stimulus" bill he helped to craft.
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One suchcompanyinvestigated byWNDisGridPointInc., where he was appointed to the board in March 2008.GridPointprovides utilities with software solutions for electrical grid management and electric power demand and supply balancing.
The "stimulus" provides $4.5 billion for so-calledsmart gridprojects.GridPointhas benefited from scores ofsmart griddeals funded by the "stimulus" bill.
The company partnered with theElectric Transportation Engineering Corporation(eTec),Nissan, the Idaho National Laboratory and others in a project to deploy electric vehicles (EVs) and their charging infrastructure in five states. The Energy Department had awardedeTecalmost $100 million in "stimulus" funds to support the project.
GridPoint's role in theeTecproject was to supply smart charging and data logging capability to utilities located in strategic markets ofeTec's program in Arizona, California,Oregon, Tennessee and Washington.
GridPointalso benefited from "stimulus" funds when it recently provided home energy management,load managementand electric vehicle management software solutions for a KCP&L's Green Impact Zone SmartGrid Demonstration in Kansas City, Mo. The project was the recipient of stimulus funding.
Additionally,GridPointhelped theSacramento Municipal Utility District, orSMUD, manage power from its customers' rooftopsolar panels.
The Arlington, Va.-based company had landed a contract to help the Sacramento, Calif.-based municipal utility manage renewable power integration, energy storage and homeenergy management systems.SMUDhad won $127.5 million in stimulus funds from the Department of Energy to carry out the project, which also includes deploying 600,000 smart meters in its service territory.
Also, in early 2009, the Energy Department awarded Argonne National Laboratory nearly $2.7 million in stimulus funding for three solar-energy relatedresearchprojects. In addition, Argonne reportedly shared another $5 million in stimulus funding for projects withGridPointand other companies andthe Universityof Illinois Sustainable Technology Center.
Besides benefiting from stimulus grants,GridPointlast year won a $28 million contract with the United States Postal Service to installenergy management systemsin selectedpostofficelocations across the U.S.
Glauthier, meanwhile, also had come under fire after Fox News reported theU.S. Navy has purchased 450,000 gallonsof biofuel for about $16 a gallon, or about four times the price of its standard marine fuel, JP-5, which has been going for under $4 a gallon.
And HotAir reported last week thatGlauthieris a"strategic adviser" toSolazyme, theCaliforniacompany that is selling a portion of the biofuel to the Navy.
HotAir notedSolazymereceived a$21.8 million grantfrom the 2009 stimulus package.
Also, writing at BigGovernment two weeks ago,Whitney Pitcher found that prior to serving as adviser to Solazymeand after his time as part of Obama's transition team, Glauthier served on theadvisory board of SunRun,a solar financing company.
In October of 2010, just a few short months after Glauthier joined SunRun's advisory board,SunRun secured a $6.73 million grantfrom a Treasury Department stimulus program. The company was the ninth largest recipient of such programs through December 2010.
With research by Brenda J. Elliott
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