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Lenders pass the loan-guarantee fees on to borrowers in the form of higher rates.
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Constellation Energy last year put a 1.9 gigawatt nuclear plant project in Maryland on hold because it could not come to terms with the Department of Energy on a loan guarantee.
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The loan guarantee means taxpayers are on the hook, and the confirmation of the bankruptcy plan means creditors lose out too.
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Celta Vigo insist striker Benni McCarthy will not be moving to Manchester City on loan unless the English club can guarantee to complete a permanent transfer in the summer.
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The term of the loan guarantee to the bank RBS expires on 1 April this year.
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REYKJAVIK, Iceland - Iceland's biggest bank received an emergency loan from Sweden on Wednesday, and Britain said it would guarantee deposits in an Icelandic bank's online unit as the financial crisis engulfing this tiny Nordic nation showed no sign of easing.
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Other questions were on the recent escalation of violence in Nigeria, when the Chilcot committee will report on the admissibility of intercept evidence, and how the government's loan guarantee scheme will work.
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"Without the federal loan guarantee program, private-sector capital earmarked for this and other clean-energy projects will stay on the sidelines, " NRG Chief Financial Officer Christian Schade said by email.
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And then there's the quasi-tax that Georgia's government has imposed on its utility customers in the form of early rate increases to help the utility avoid invoking the loan guarantee.
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For example, Suntech paid an average of 4% to 5% interest on its loans in 2010, much higher than the 1% given to US companies under the DOE loan guarantee program.
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