Abound,
based
in
Colorado,
was
approved
for
a
$400m
DOE
loan
guarantee
in
2010.
Its
bankruptcy
will
cost
125
jobs
--
on
top
of
the
180
layoffs
the
company
announced
in
March
--
and
provide
opponents
of
the
Obama
Administration's
support
for
renewable
energy
another
opportunity
to
attack
the
loan
program,
whose
highest-profile
failure,
Solyndra,
was
also
a
thin-film
PV
manufacturer
laid
low
by
falling
polysilicon
costs.
The
DOE
sought
to
minimize
the
political
fallout
--
disclosing
the
news
on
an
agency
blog
the
same
day
the
US
Supreme
Court
delivered
its…
