Former President Bill Clinton on Tuesday called for less politics and more cooperation between private enterprise and government to develop clean energy, despite the higher cost.
Energy
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid took a break from stumping for renewable energy at Tuesday’s National Clean Energy Summit to slam NV Energy for keeping its Reid Gardner coal-fired plant open 50 miles outside of Las Vegas.
WASHINGTON – Two solar projects planned on federal and tribal lands in Clark County are being put on a fast track as part of the Obama administration’s latest push behind green energy in the West.
Southwest Gas has requested to add a surcharge outside of regular rates to pay for pipeline replacement, and this has been met with varied opinions.
U.S. Sen. Harry Reid on Monday applied pressure on Nevada’s chief electricity provider to get behind a $5 billion solar project that a Chinese company wants to build on the outskirts of Laughlin.
The new chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission distanced herself Tuesday from earlier criticism of Yucca Mountain, telling lawmakers she will have an “open mind” on the project still lingering at the agency.
The Obama administration streamlined the development of 17 vast tracts across the West, including five in Nevada, for large-scale solar projects.
Solar panel manufacturer Amonix might have been in financial trouble before the company’s chief executive officer was killed in a December plane crash and 70 percent of the work force at its North Las Vegas plant was laid off a month later.
The Amonix solar manufacturing plant in North Las Vegas, subsidized by federal tax credits and grants, has closed its facility about a year after it opened.
NV Energy was sick. The company owned 39 percent of its generation and relied on volatile wholesale markets to cover the rest. By spending $4.3 billion to build eight power plants, the company achieved firmer financial footing, cutting business costs and boosting its ability to raise cash.
