President Obama lands in Las Vegas

The $1 billion in new money will be made available through the Department of Energy’s federal loan guarantee program, which helped launch the country’s large-scale solar industry by financing five major solar projects.

“Pushing for new laws to roll back renewable energy standards … that’s a problem”, Obama said. “That’s not progress. That’s not innovation”, he said.

In Washington earlier in the day, the administration cited another motivation: that the government should boost clean-energy businesses for the sake of a better environment.

The White House also announced $1 billion in new loan guarantees for “distributed energy” – electricity generated from solar panels, wind turbines and other alternative energy sources installed on rooftops and in backyards instead of being generated at a power plant.

If the nation is to stay a robust world chief, he stated, it wants “not only a president who, after a number of grey hairs, appears to know what he is doing, however we additionally want a Congress that features”.

When you think about desirable destinations for the dog days of August, Las Vegas probably doesn’t immediately jump to mind.

“This is a great opportunity to expand this dramatically”, he said. To that end, the Governor traveled to the Vatican last month to participate in a symposium on climate change hosted by the Pontifical Academies of Sciences and Social Sciences and to Toronto, Canada for the Climate Summit of the Americas to call on cities, states and provinces to join California in the fight. Chuck Schumer, who’s favored to take over Reid’s leadership position, and a growing list of Democrats.

Without a substantial acceleration and improvements to the existing implementation process, the current trajectory would fall far short of Governor Jerry Brown’s goal to double energy-efficiency savings by 2030, the report contends.

“The Oakland Athletics succeeded because they were willing to adapt in the face of a challenge”, he said, recounting the story from the book and movie “Moneyball”.

Obama was in a reflective mood during his trip, saying said he spoke with Reid about “riding off into the sunset together”. “We believe we can do good and do well at the same time”. “You have to choose”.

But Obama landed in Las Vegas to a scathing editorial in the local paper.

“Obama said the economics are now such that “solar isn’t just for the green crowd any more, it’s” for the green-eyeshade crowd too”.

At the Dept. of Interior, Secretary Sally Jewell announced that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has formally approved the Blythe Mesa solar project in California and its associated transmission infrastructure.

But Obama’s also giving solar science some cash: $24 million will go to 11 research projects that are working to make the technology cheaper and more efficient.

Or the thousands of workers it will take to retrofit Nevada’s schools, businesses, casinos, homes and apartments to make them all use energy smarter via energy efficiency.