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unr.edu 1/27/2009 — The first real-world, demonstration-scale project in Nevada for turning algae into biofuel has successfully completed the initial stage of research at the University of Nevada, Reno. The project is on track to show the process is an economical, ...

Sierra Nevada beer production waste used to make ethanol
autobloggreen.com 2/4/2009 — Beer. What can't it do? I mean, you can turn leftovers from the production process into ethanol or ethanol or even electricity ethanol . Want to hear something else? You can also turn it into ethanol. No, seriously. That's what the Sierra Nevada ...

Reid announces major transmission legislation
reid.senate.gov 3/6/2009 — Bill could revolutionize renewable energy delivery from Nevada and transform state economy March 5, 2009 Washington, D.C . Nevada could receive an enormous boost toward becoming the nation s leading renewable energy exporter under legislation ...

Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. goes electric with charging stations
autobloggreen.com 4/27/2009 — A few months back, we heard about Sierra Nevada Brewing Company's plans to begin using waste from its beer brewing process to make ethanol . That's great, but there's apparently more greening going on at the company's brewery in Chico, CA. The first two ChargePoint Networked Charging Stations ...

The show must go on
resourceinsights.blogspot.com 8/22/2009 — Paris, But Not France It is a sign that the world may be upside down when French tourists in Las Vegas take pictures of themselves in front of the Paris Las Vegas hotel and casino complex which includes a half-scale replica of the Eiffel Tower . And, yet this is not the strangest ...

NV Energy Postpones Construction of Coal Power Facility in Nevada; Plans to Expedite North-South Transmission Line
businesswire.com 2/10/2009 — LAS VEGAS--( BUSINESS WIRE )--NV Energy, Inc. (NYSE: NVE) today announced that it has postponed its plans to construct a coal-fired power plant in eastern Nevada due to increasing environmental and economic uncertainties surrounding its development. ...

National Clean Energy Summit
cleanenergysummit.org 8/15/2009 — National Clean Energy Summit 2.0: Jobs and the New Economy August 10, 2009 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Cox Pavilion Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid , the University of Nevada, Las Vegas , and the Center for American ...

California, Nevada lead the way for geothermal growth
cleantech.com 10/2/2009 — New Geothermal Energy Association report suggests that despite the sector’s growth, projects under construction are being delayed by financing, permitting.

The show must go on
energybulletin.net 8/23/2009 — Paris, But Not France It is a sign that the world may be upside down when French tourists in Las Vegas take pictures of themselves in front of the Paris Las Vegas hotel and casino complex which includes a half-scale replica of the Eiffel Tower . And, ...

About FERC - Chairman Jon Wellinghoff
ferc.gov 4/23/2009 — Jon Wellinghoff was named Chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), the agency that oversees wholesale electric transactions and interstate electric transmission and gas transportation in the United States, by President Barack ...

Obama May Revive FutureGen Coal Project, Cost Could Be $2.3B — Green on HuffingtonPost.com 3/11/2009
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The price tag for a futuristic coal-burning power plant that President Barack Obama is thinking of reviving seems to still be going up, though a congressional report Wednesday said the Bush administration overstated the cost when ...

Jeff Biggers: Takes a Village to Stop Razing Appalachia: Power Past Coal Fights Back — Green on HuffingtonPost.com 3/12/2009
Appalachia needs no defense: It needs more defenders. Check out the footage of the bright morning blast that greeted Bo Webb, a decorated Vietnam veteran and his community today in Clay's Branch, Peachtree, West Virginia. A shower of rock dust ...

US government slammed over coal project — The most recent articles from BusinessGreen 3/13/2009
Danny Bradbury, BusinessGreen , Friday 13 March 2009 at 00:15:00 Basic accounting error led government department to miscalculate ongoing project costs The Department of Energy (DoE) acted irresponsibly in withdrawing support for a ...

"The Filthy Fifteen" States With Most Dangerous Coal Ash — Green on HuffingtonPost.com 3/16/2009
In the wake of the December 22 disastrous spill of toxic coal ash into a Tennessee River -- into and over houses, leaving sludge behind that the Tennessee Valley Authority simultaneously said wasn't dangerous and that should be avoided at all costs, ...

Bill Chameides: How Much Coal Is Really in Them Thar Hills? — Green on HuffingtonPost.com 3/17/2009
Dr. Bill Chameides is the dean of Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He blogs regularly at theGreenGrok.com . They used to say that "coal is king." Today maybe it's "'clean ...