Green energy grants are a boon for foreign companies, some with San Diego connections.

By Brooke Williams and Kevin Crowe
Watchdog Institute

Of the more than $2 billion the federal government has given out to boost the economy and create green energy jobs, more than three-quarters has gone to foreign-owned companies that dominate the global wind power industry.

This latest finding by the Investigative Reporting Workshop, a nonprofit at American University in Washington, D.C., is illustrated clearly in San Diego County, where about a dozen commercial wind developers have offices.

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