Sen. Harry Reid and Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar tout tourism initiatives at roundtable in Las Vegas - Multimedia. The state of American energy jobs – Vote 4 Energy. United States Electricity Rates... Chinese energy company seeks more county land for 'eco-city' - Monday, Sept. 19, 2011 | 4:03 p. Justin Bowen Laughlin and Bullhead City, Ariz., as seen in 2011. By Joe Schoenmann (contact) Published Monday, Sept. 19, 2011 | 4:03 p.m. Updated Monday, Sept. 19, 2011 | 5:16 p.m. The Chinese energy company seeking to build a massive solar energy plant and solar-cell factory near Laughlin wants more land for the project.
ENN Mojave Energy Corp. wants all 9,000 acres of available Clark County land about 12 miles south of Laughlin, not 5,400 acres as first reported in June. When ENN’s plans were announced, the company said the development would create 2,000 long-term manufacturing jobs paying on average $72,000 a year. Officials hoped construction would begin on the solar-cell plant late this year or in early 2012, with solar cells being produced by March 2013 and the first phase of the solar farm operating by March 2014. “They have something like it near Beijing,” Sisolak said. Sisolak also said ENN wants to purchase, not lease, all 9,000 acres of county land. Nevada Gets a Plan For a Better Economy - Up Front Blog. Washington is paralyzed by politics and debt, but states and regions are moving to renew the drifting U.S. economy themselves. In just the last year no less than three states — Colorado, New York, and Tennessee — have begun to execute well-considered “bottom-up” development strategies that aim to restore growth and place regions at the center of economic development planning and execution.
Now comes Nevada, arguably the state most damaged by the recent real estate and consumption sector crackup, with its own effort at renewal. Having lost 170,000 jobs in the recession (including 120,000 in real estate, construction, food and drink, and tourism), the Silver State yesterday issued a well-considered new plan for generating 50,000 new jobs by reshaping its economic development activities and diversifying a damaged gaming, tourism, and real-estate-oriented economy. The plan represents a key step in a serious effort to place a troubled economy on a better footing. Nevada must play to win in clean energy - Monday, March 19, 2012 | 2 a.m. - Las Vegas Sun. More than 100 years ago, Teddy Roosevelt issued this nation a challenge: “Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in that grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat,” he said.
Roosevelt’s belief that hard work was the surest way to achieve greatness is as true today as it was then. And it is especially relevant to Nevada’s clean energy future. Nevadans know that we can accomplish great things by challenging ourselves to take advantage of our vast renewable energy resources. The development of our geothermal, solar, and wind energy resources can broaden our economic future and position the Silver State to become the vibrant core of a Western and national clean energy market.
These successes did not happen overnight and they did not happen by accident. Sen. Back to top. Nevada > State > State Budget Solutions. Unify, Regionalize, Diversify: An Economic Development Agenda for Nevada. Metropolitan Policy Program at Brookings, Brookings Mountain West, and SRI International Editor’s Note: Mark Muro, senior fellow and policy director, is the paper's lead contributor from the Metropolitan Policy Program at Brookings. Nevada stands at a crossroads, yet it appears ready to remap its future.
Silver Staters sense that the current economic slump has not been just a temporary reversal but a challenge to the state’s traditional growth model—one that has revealed an economy over-dependent on consumption sectors, prone to booms and busts, and too little invested in innovation and economic diversification. And yet, for all that Nevadans have been early to recognize that the current slump will beget, in some places, innovation and renewal, and in other places erosion—and so requires action. Nevada possesses fundamental economic assets along with serious challenges as it seeks to build its next economy. NV Energy customers may get zapped for conserving - Wednesday, May 4, 2011 | 2:01 a. By David McGrath Schwartz Wednesday, May 4, 2011 | 2:01 a.m.
The state’s electric company wants to raise power bills by as much as 5 percent for Southern Nevadans as compensation for the loss of electricity sales because customers are more power-efficient. NV Energy said programs it funds, such as subsidizing energy-efficient light bulbs and helping customers replace old air conditioners and refrigerators, will result in a loss of $35 million in energy sales this year in Clark County. A rate increase of almost 5 percent will reimburse the utility for its loss, it has told the Nevada Public Utilities Commission.
NV Energy is asking for $7.5 million from Northern Nevada customers, a 3 percent rate increase. The PUC is expected this month to rule on the request, which is facing opposition from the Consumer Protection Bureau, part of the attorney general’s office, as well as PUC staff. Some economic development experts worry high energy prices will hurt the state’s competitiveness.
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