Politico:

The parent company of yet another Energy Department aid recipient has filed for bankruptcy protection.
Ener1 — a lithium-ion battery-maker whose EnerDel subsidiary received a $118.5 million grant from DOE as part of the 2009 stimulus — has filed for Chapter 11 protection, the company announced Thursday.
Ener1 owns 80.5 percent of EnerDel, while 19.5 percent is owned by the auto parts manufacturer Delphi, according a company press release last week.
The news comes just as President Barack Obama tours the country touting his energy plan. It’s also exactly a year since Vice President Joe Biden visited the company to highlight Obama’s 2011 State of the Union promise to put 1 million electric vehicles on the road by 2015, a plan that has largely fallen by the wayside.
Ener1’s filing, in U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York, is part of a “pre-packaged” plan that will restructure the company and bring in as much as $81 million in new capital.
The plan is designed to keep the Ener1’s operations going and not lose any jobs, according to the company.
But House Republicans are already up in arms over the failures of Solyndra and Beacon Power, which received loan guarantees under a different DOE program, and say the latest news fits a pattern.

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