Study: Nevada’s Renewable Portfolio Standard to Cost Residents $2.275 Billion
The Silver State’s Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) will cost Nevadans $2.275 billion over the next twelve years, according to a new study released today. The study, RPS: A Recipe for Economic...
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Nevada clean-energy entrepreneur faces hostile bureaucracies, subsidized...
LAS VEGAS — Mike Little was captain of his Division I college football team. He’s also an accomplished architect. But what he’s most passionate about, the potential of his green-energy business, keeps...
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Lawmakers Trying to Shape the Power Grid of the Future May Get Blindsided by...
Nevada lawmakers may be kicking a dying horse and unwittingly hastening its demise. The one law the Nevada Legislature manages to pass every session is the Law of Unintended Consequences. Thus it is...
View ArticlePoliticians Mess with the Market And Stick Citizens with the Bills
Politicians keep pulling the strings of the marketplace trying to make it dance but invariably the result is a tangled mess. One of the latest examples is the “negotiated” settlement — as though they...
View ArticleNevada Ratepayers May “NVision” Higher Power Costs
Nevada’s transition away from coal power may be closer than ever and ratepayers may pay the price. A bill in the Legislature would accelerate the shutdown of the state’s coal-fired power plants and...
View ArticleReid Says Obamacare a Step to Single-Payer, Defends NSA Metadata Program
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid declared in an interview on Friday that Obamacare was just a step on the way to a single-payer system. In the wide-ranging interview on PBS’s Nevada Week In Review,...
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Reid Brings Beltway Rhetoric Home to Nevada: Government Will Take Care of...
People have long noticed that Nevada’s senior senator talks more conservatively while home in Nevada than he does inside the Beltway. Harry Reid has now dropped all pretext. While on public radio and...
View ArticleNevadans May Soon Discover How Much Going Green Costs
When the Nevada Legislature passed Senate Bill 123, everyone was so thrilled about shutting down all those dirty coal-fired power plants and building millions of dollars worth of bright new clean...
View ArticleNV Energy’s NVision Plan Generates Resistance Across the Spectrum
NV Energy’s NVision plan to decommission its coal-fired generating capacity years ahead of schedule, passed overwhelmingly back in June and supported by leaders in both parties, is beginning to...
View ArticleGovernment Agencies Working at Cross Purposes on Protected Species
Never are the agencies of the federal government more efficient, more capable than when they are working at diametric cross purposes — canceling out one objective with another. Agencies such as the...
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