Obama’s day: Back from Nevada

His nearly 30-minute speech came on the heels of executive actions aimed at increasing green energy use – and solar power in particular – across the nation.

President Obama challenged energy utilities, fossil fuel producers and their allies in Congress on Monday to get onboard with his push for clean energy or risk backlash from American consumers and companies.

The move comes after Obama’s announcement earlier this month to limit carbon emissions from U.S. power plants by 32 percent from 2005 levels by 2030.

The Wilderness Society’s Chase Huntley called the project a good example “of how we can meet our clean energy goals with limited impact to wildlands and wildlife habitat”.

Meanwhile industry officials convene to oppose what they say is the most expensive regulation in history. “We really feel this is a major opportunity to expand this dramatically and to contribute to the clean energy”, said Ernest Moniz, U.S. Secretary of Energy in a press call Monday morning.

However, Utah Republican Rep. Rob Bishop, chair of the House Committee on Natural Resources, said Obama’s policies were leveling “increased costs and decreased choices on all Americans and especially the most disadvantaged communities”. “You do not have to share my passion for solving climate change to like renewable energy”.

“We refuse to surrender the hope of a clean-energy future to those who fear it and fight it”.

“Instead of spending another $1 billion of taxpayer money to prop up noncompetitive sources of energy, the president should cut barriers to energy development on federal land and offshore”, Mr. Bishop said.

After the speech, Obama and Reid traveled to the Henderson home of Las Vegas Sun Publisher Brian Greenspun to speak at a fundraiser for former Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto, a Democrat running for Reid’s Senate seat.

Its 173,500 heliostats, each with two mirrors, focus solar energy on boilers on three centralized solar power towers.

Governor Brown is committed to making solar power systems and energy and water efficiency retrofits more affordable and accessible for California homeowners.

At the same time, the White House announced that homes that have had energy efficiency improvements completed or a rooftop solar installation financed through the Property Assessed Clean Energy program, or PACE, are eligible for an FHA mortgage.

As part of the President’s Clean Power Plan, the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Loan Programs Office (LPO) is making up to one billion dollars in loan guarantees available to support commercial-scale distributed energy projects, such as rooftop solar with storage and smart grid technology.

The president is also approving a transmission line to California’s Blythe Mesa plant that’s expected to produce enough renewable energy to power more than 145,000 homes.