Solar, wind power draw Obama support at Vegas energy summit

The President said, “We’re here today because we believe that no challenge poses a greater threat to our future than climate change”.

Obama said opponents of renewable energy, led by oil, coal and other fossil-fuel producers, feel threatened by the emerging industry and seek to make it more costly by “a massive lobbying effort” in Washington.

In coming weeks, the White House was also expected to send to Congress a plan for transitioning detainees out of the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Those stand in contrast, he said, to the efforts of “fossil-fuel interests or conservative interests or the Koch Brothers” to roll back renewable-energy incentives.

“Reid, a longtime critic of NV Energy, called for electric companies to change their business models to meet American’s growing demand for clean energy”.

“We can not grow the government economy and the American economy at the same time”, Jindal said. The group, which beforehand acquired cash from ExxonMobil, maintains that Obama’s insurance policies promote wind and solar energy on the expense of typical power and “will inevitably trigger skyrocketing electrical energy costs whereas offering little if any internet environmental advantages”, in response to the summit’s web site. “People are beginning to realize they can take more control over their own energy-what kind they use, how much, and when”, he said. The Under 2 MOU builds on other worldwide climate change pacts with leaders from Mexico, China, North America, Japan, Israel and Peru. “Today, that’s no longer true”, he said.

“It’s one thing if you are insistent on being free market, it’s another thing if you’re free market until it’s solar that’s working and people want to buy it”.

Minister Assisting the Premier on North Queensland Coralee O’Rourke said the trial could see more solar batteries rolled out across regional Queensland.

The goal is to help more families and businesses invest in energy systems that may have been impractical or unaffordable.

Obama said that in some cases renewable energy was becoming cheaper than conventional energy and it was “impossible to overstate what that means”. “This is not, and should not be, a Republican-versus-Democratic issue”.

The annual energy conference was hosted by Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., who frequently targets the Koch brothers.

The White House on Monday announced a $1 billion increase in loan guarantees for renewable energy projects, $24 million in new grants for solar research and measures to reduce costs for homeowners to install solar panels. One rooftop solar company that had begun expanding into Nevada pulled back several weeks ago, citing uncertainty about net metering. The Blythe Mesa plant would produce enough renewable energy for more than 145,000 homes, according to an administration document.