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    Why Greece Has Been Slow To Embrace Clean Energy

    Jul 30, 2017
    With its famed sunshine and sea winds, Greece should be a clean energy hub. But it's been slow to abandon coal and embrace renewable energy. That's changing on one small island.
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    Reid, Sandoval To Co-Host Las Vegas Clean Energy Summit

    Jul 12, 2017

    CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — A bipartisan team of political leaders in Nevada is planning to host a national conversation on clean energy this fall.

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    Despite Veto, Renewable Energy Advocates Vow To Fight On

    Jun 21, 2017

    The last bill Governor Brian Sandoval vetoed on Friday broke environmentalists’ hearts.

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    Two significant energy bills await governor’s approval … or veto

    Jun 14, 2017

    A critical energy bill that proposes to raise the amount of renewable energy produced in Nevada hangs in the balance.

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    Rooftop Solar Company Announces Its Return To Nevada

    Jun 08, 2017

    Vivint Solar has announced that it plans to re-enter the Nevada market of residential solar.

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    Mexico Energy Reform Spurs Larger Scale Cross-Border Electricity Transmission

    Jun 02, 2017

    The dream of a unified North American electricity grid could not have been contemplated until Mexico's electricity market was opened to foreign companies in 2014.

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    Conservative Christian Group Pushes For Renewable Energy In Nevada

    May 30, 2017

    When you picture someone who supports solar power development and wants Nevada to develop more renewable energy, you probably don’t imagine that person to be a conservative?

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    MGM Backs Renewable Energy Standards Bill

    May 22, 2017

    In stark contrast to its neighbors on the Strip, MGM Resorts International is now supporting a measure to increase renewable energy standards to 50 percent by 2030.

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    Sunrise in Carson City

    May 19, 2017

    Will the 2017 Legislature go down in history as the ‘clean energy session’?

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    The Salt
    The methane digester on Reinford Farms is like "a big, giant stomach," says Brett Reinford. It converts manure and excess produce from local food stores into renewable energy.
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    Waste Not, Want Not: Why Aren't More Farms Putting Poop To Good Use?

    Apr 23, 2017
    Digesters convert livestock manure into electricity. Farmers can use it to power their operations or even sell some back to the grid. But some have found the technology too pricey to maintain.
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    The Two-Way
    Britain expects to go 24 hours without using coal to generate electricity Friday.  It would be the first full day since the Industrial Revolution.
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    U.K. May Have 24 Hours Without Coal Power

    Apr 21, 2017
    The country's National Grid announced Friday it was on its way to a full day without requiring its coal plants to produce power. Britain plans to eliminate the energy source by 2025.
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    Kevin Butt, Toyota's regional environmental sustainability director, at a facility that uses methane to generate clean electricity to help run Toyota's auto plant in central Kentucky.
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    Big Business Pushes Coal-Friendly Kentucky To Embrace Renewables

    Apr 17, 2017
    Nearly 90 percent of Kentucky's electricity is from coal — the cheap energy source that helped build its manufacturing economy. Now it's struggling to respond as more businesses want clean energy.
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    Sen. Hardy Introduces Renewable Electricity Generation Tax

    Mar 21, 2017

    A Boulder City Republican is seeking a new state tax on renewable energy producers in Nevada.

    Sen. Joseph Hardy is proposing the Department of Taxation set fees based on the amount of electricity a company or person generates from renewables in a year.

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    Climbing the TSTC wind turbine in Sweetwater.
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    Wind Energy Takes Flight In The Heart Of Texas Oil Country

    Mar 08, 2017
    Texas leads the nation in wind energy, while wind turbine technician is the fastest-growing job in the U.S. The industry flourished under former Gov. Rick Perry, Trump's new energy secretary.
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    Democrats Propose Doubling Nevada’s Renewable Energy Target

    Feb 15, 2017

    CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Democratic lawmakers are proposing legislation to move Nevada away from fossil fuels more quickly than planned.

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    Solar Power Plant Commissioned To Serve Las Vegas Valley

    Feb 14, 2017

    LAS VEGAS (AP) — Officials have flipped the switch on a solar power plant southeast of Las Vegas.

    NV Energy on Monday said the project, dubbed Boulder Solar II, has reached its commercial operation status.

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    The City of Las Vegas Goes 100 Percent Renewable

    Jan 09, 2017

    The City of Las Vegas made an announcement last month that kinda got lost in the hubbub of politics and holidays.

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    About a quarter of California's electricity comes from renewable sources, like this wind farm outside San Diego.
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    Renewable Energy Sector Remains Optimistic Amid Trump Policy Outlook

    Dec 22, 2016
    Despite the fossil fuel-friendly cabinet shaping up under President-elect Donald Trump, renewable energy companies aren't as pessimistic as you might think. They say market forces are on their side.
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    Texas City Moves To Renewable Energy Spurred By Plan That New Administration May Spurn

    Nov 18, 2016

    GEORGETOWN, Texas — Donald Trump’s victory and the impending Republican majority in Congress means the Obama administration’s initiative to cut greenhouse gas emissions, the Clean Power Plan, is al

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    Company Wants To Build Huge Solar Array In Nevada Desert

    Oct 12, 2016

    LAS VEGAS (AP) — A California company says it intends to spend billions of dollars to build the largest solar power plant in the world in the sun-baked Nevada desert about 225 miles northwest of Las Vegas.

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    All Tech Considered
    A car drives by a Switch data center in Las Vegas on Sept. 9, 2015. In 2013, data centers consumed 2 percent of all U.S. power — triple what they used in 2000.
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    Making The Cloud Green: Tech Firms Push For Renewable Energy Sources

    Jul 22, 2016
    Few people can demand what kind of electricity they get. But Microsoft and Facebook, which operate huge, power-hungry data centers, are trying to green up the electricity grid with their buying power.
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    Energy
    Logger Greg Hemmerich and his crew feed low-value trees into a wood chipper, before bringing the chips to ReEnergy Holdings' biomass plant in Lyonsdale, N.Y.
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    Is Burning Trees Still Green? Some Experts Now Question Biomass

    Jul 12, 2016
    Biomass was rising a decade ago as a carbon-neutral energy. But the industry is sputtering as oil and natural gas booms, and some scientists are questioning if it's actually good for the environment.
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    Breaking bread

    Jun 27, 2016

    They say the best way to the heart is through the stomach. I’d propose that it’s a promising path to the mind, too. Food as a way to foster tolerance and respect for diversity?

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    Crescent Dunes
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    The 100 percent solution

    Jun 24, 2016

    It sounds implausible on the surface: running Nevada entirely on renewable energy. But could it be done?

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    The end of renewable portfolio standards in Nevada?

    Jun 14, 2016

    The governor's energy task force declines to push an increase in Nevada's required amount of renewable energy

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