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  • Fallon Renewable Energy Workshop
    March 11, 2010 (12:00 pm - 4:00 pm)

    NV Energy, Wind Powering America and the USDA Rural Development are conducting an interactive workshop for NV Energy customers designed to educate ranchers, farmers, agriculture customers and rural area small businesses about incentives for installing...

  • New Energy Industry Task Force
    March 12, 2010 (9:00 am - 11:00 am)
    The first meeting of the New Energy Industry Task Force will be video conferenced between the State Capitol Annex Building in Carson City and the Governors Office in the Grant Sawyer Building in Las Vegas. The meeting is open to the public.
  • Carson Valley/Dayton Renewable Energy Workshop
    March 15, 2010 (12:00 pm - 4:00 pm)

    NV Energy, Wind Powering America and the USDA Rural Development are conducting an interactive workshop for NV Energy customers designed to educate ranchers, farmers, agriculture customers and rural area small businesses about incentives for installing...

  • Yerington Renewable Energy Workshop
    March 16, 2010 (12:00 pm - 4:00 pm)
    NV Energy, Wind Powering America and the USDA Rural Development are conducting an interactive workshop for NV Energy customers designed to educate ranchers, farmers, agriculture customers and rural area small businesses about incentives for installing...
  • Elko Renewable Energy Workshop
    March 17, 2010 (12:00 pm - 4:00 pm)
    NV Energy, Wind Powering America and the USDA Rural Development are conducting an interactive workshop for NV Energy customers designed to educate ranchers, farmers, agriculture customers and rural area small businesses about incentives for installing...
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New Transmission Study
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory today released a new report: “Exploration of Resource and Transmission Expansion Decisions in the Western Renewable Energy Zone Initiative.” Report highlights can be found here.

The report examines, at a screening-level, the sensitivity of renewable resource selection, transmission expansion, and renewable supply costs in meeting aggressive Western renewable energy targets to different assumptions and policy decisions.  The report evaluates these decisions under a number of alternative future scenarios centered on meeting 33% of the electrical load of Western states with new renewable resources located within resource hubs identified in the Western Renewable Energy Zone (WREZ) Initiative.

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New Energy Industry Task Force Meets
The New Energy Industry Task Force will hold their first meeting Friday, March 12th from 9 am to noon. For meeting details, including a copy of the ageda click here.
 
Commissioner Names Task Force
Nevada Energy Commissioner Dr. Hatice Gecol has announced her appointments to the New Energy Industry Task Force. Members and the industries they represent are:


Solar: James E. "Jim" Baak
, is the director of policy for utility-scale solar for the Vote Solar Initiative

Geothermal: Dan Schochet, was the chairman for the Governor Gibbons’ Renewable Energy Transmission Access Advisory Committee for phase I and II; the treasurer for the Nevada Geothermal Council; and a member of the Western Governors Association, Clean Energy Development Advisory Committee. He is the vice president for Ram Power Inc.

Wind:
Brian Palmer, is the vice president of Optimization and Control for GE Energy

Distirbuted GenerationPending Election, Nevada Lead of the Solar Alliance

Electric Utility:
Jack McGinley, is the renewable energy development director for NV Energy

Public LandsDr. John Tull, is the conservation director for Nevada Wilderness Project

Labor
James Halsey, is the membership development representative and the assistant business manager for the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 357

Contractors:
Matthew Frazer, is the officer of Nevada Chapter Associated General Contractors; officer/board member of National Electrical Contractor Association; trustee of Electrical Workers Health and Welfare Trust; trustee of the Electrical Workers Pension Trust; and trustee of the Cement Masons Pension Trust. He is the division manager for PAR Electrical Contractors, Inc.

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