It has applied to the federal government for $1.8 billion in loan guarantees.
The 2005 energy bill created such loan guarantees, but the details still have not been worked out.
"The loan guarantee is part of the program to lower labor costs."
He said this was required as part of the approved loan guarantee.
This doesn't mean that the loan guarantees are necessarily a great idea.
But much of the public attention was focused on the loan guarantees.
The Federal government has authorized up to $42.5 billion in loan guarantees.
This is a very easy way of giving loan guarantees.
This, they said, would come only at the cost of $1 billion in loan guarantees being made available immediately.
But the Administration refused to say how much the loan guarantees would total.