Nevada Business in Energy & Utilities

Department of energy abandoning Yucca Mountain plans
Internal Department of Energy budget documents obtained by a Washington, D.C., area trade publication show the department is abandoning its effort to license the planned Yucca Mountain nuclear waste [read more]
[ source ] http://www.lvrj.com : November 9, 2009
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Ormat Technologies, Inc. Signs a New 20-Year PPA with Nevada Power Company for 30 MW of Geothermal P
RENO, Nevada, Nov. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Ormat Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: ORA) announced that one of its subsidiaries has signed a 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with Nevada Power [read more]
[ source ] http://money.cnn.com : November 9, 2009
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Nevada companies to get stimulus money for power projects
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced this morning that Nevada companies will receive $93 million in stimulus funds to develop 25 geothermal-power [read more]
[ source ] http://www.lvrj.com : October 29, 2009
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Will renewable energy power Nevada’s economy?
Run a search on Google for the phrase when the recession is over and you get 22,600 hits. Search for after the recession and a whopping 1,090,000 hits come up. All over the nation government and [read more]
[ source ] http://www.newsreview.com : July 16, 2009
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$4 gas not likely
Gasoline prices remain volatile across Nevada but aren't expected to threaten the record $4-per-gallon heights of last summer, AAA Nevada reported Tuesday. The auto club's monthly survey showed a [read more]
[ source ] http://www.rgj.com : July 16, 2009
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Protests greet latest planned power increase
A handful of locals attended a public-comment session Wednesday to protest a potential new increase in their power bills. The boost, a 3.2 percent overall jump that would increase the average [read more]
[ source ] http://www.lvrj.com : July 16, 2009
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Public-policy stars to come out at green energy summit
Las Vegas is set to host a passel of public-policy celebrities on Aug. 10, when a renewable-energy summit returns to the city for its second year. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., [read more]
[ source ] http://www.lvrj.com : July 16, 2009
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A Solar Land Rush
The Department of the Interior's move last month to accelerate development of large-scale solar power plants on federal land in six Western states could give an edge to companies that have already [read more]
[ source ] http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com : July 14, 2009
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Ex-NextEnergy CEO Takes Similar Post In Nevada
James Croce, former CEO of NextEnergy, the state's renewable energy industry accelerator, has accepted a position as president and CEO of the Nevada Institute for Renewable Energy Commercialization, [read more]
[ source ] http://www.wwj.com : July 6, 2009
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Forum touts Nevada's efforts in renewable energy
A day after the Interior Department announced plans to fast-track solar-power plants on public lands in Nevada, a clean-energy forum met to discuss how government agencies, legislators and private [read more]
[ source ] http://www.lvrj.com : July 1, 2009
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