This is sad that another American corporation goes under, especially when it's in a thriving market. I have always made the effort to buy American and you should to, seems to me there more to their loss then just sales. Did the top members take from the kittie before there was one. Losses that big are more than suspicious. PV

Solyndra losses due to upper management failure. This company was a nightmare to deal with. Excellent product that the chinese will replicate and sell to us for large dollars since they won't last like the originals.

1100 jobs gone and will those workers have jobs ? No jobs for these people due to the fact that the illegal is doing jobs that AMERICANS WON'T ? I bet that most of these people would do any job right now to keep money coming in the door.

SHIP THE ILLEGALS HOME NOW!!!!!!

Once again the federal government sticks its nose in the private sector and the tax payers will foot the bill.

((Solar panel maker Solyndra today said that it will file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, after failing to successfully compete against lower-cost Chinese manufacturers. It is one of largest failures ever suffered by venture capitalists, and a major black eye for a U.S. Department of Energy that loaned the company more than $500 million.))

When are we going to learn. We cannot compete with China on price. Since our economy is price driven it adds another layer to the problem. Unfortunately we can only control the price of our goods by trying to use the cheapest labor available in this country which happens to be here illegally from Mexico and our political hacks in Congress have done NOTHING to resolve that problem.

Now there are so many people of Mexican decent in this country that all elected politicians are afraid to take action to stop or return the illegals for fear that they will not get the people of Mexican descents vote for re-election. I do not want to make it out that I do not like people from Mexico it is just the illegals that concern me along with all the costs involved with them being in this country. This entire situation should have been stopped years ago but no one has the courage to take a real stand on this issue.

Sorry about the rant but sometimes you just get sick and tired of being sick and tired of the situation.

What about all of the misled costomers owning these panels thinking they have a 25year warranty, or misled tax payer financing this indeaver. They will reopen - just a shift in power/money.

Excellent to see that companies trying to rip off Americans with over priced products are driven out of business. Any further information on who within the company set the pricing? Did they overvalue the opinion of the IRS that businesses installing rooftop units could take a deduction for a new roof (and build that factor in the pricing)? Curious, that with the Wal Mart family involved, pricing was not given more careful consideration.Oil companies, utilities and must be overjoyed to see these failures publicized.

Certain parties on Wall Street should be also delighted as shown in the recent exposure of Goldman Sachs (subsidiary) efforts to slow solar development via our BLM (do a search on the AP wire article) in the area of the most abundant sunshine in the US (desert). Not that solar farms are the answer to America solving the job problem -actually they seem to offer only short term employment solutions -with long term monopolistic control.

Where will the patent rights go for the cylindrical cells that Solyndra was making? These could supposedly capture sunlight from any direction. The technology would seem to be perfect for a rooftop that was not south facing. Will the solar ink developers incorporate it (or similar characteristics) into their products?

You can't compete with government subsidies. As a private venture, realistic pricing of a product cannot compete with the artificial pricing allowed by having a government subsidising the price of the product.