These companies are suffering big losses from a solar panel price collapse due to a glut of government-subsidized competitors and from slumping global sales, especially in debt-crippled Europe.

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In New Mexico a savings and loan closed its doors with the collapse of a solar panel tax shelter it had helped finance.

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To make matters worse, the collapse of investment bank Lehman Brothers has become a liability for many solar energy companies.

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