<div id="subtitle">Texas commission approves nation's largest wind power project to get energy to urban areas</div><div><p>Texas, headquarters of America's oil industry, is about to stake a fortune on wind power.</p><p>In what experts say is the biggest investment in ...
<div id="subtitle">Texas oilman tells Congress: Either build wind-power lines or get out of private sector's way</div><div><p>Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens asked Congress on Tuesday to "clear the path" for his plan to boost use of wind and natural gas for U.S. energy ...
<div id="subtitle">We’ve got abundant land and sunlight, and powerful wind currents. With its natural resources, Nevada should lead the green movement. GETTING THE ENERGY WHERE IT NEEDS TO GO.</div><div><p></p><p>Washington</p><p>Years from now, when ...
<div><p> Bill would let feds</p><p>locate power lines</p><p>WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced Monday morning he will introduce a bill that would give the federal government vast new authority to site electrical transmission lines in Nevada and other states.</p ...
<div id="subtitle">Federal government’s push for new transmission lines is critical to growth of industry</div><div><p> Nevada’s leading electric company, NV Energy, announced Monday it was asking the Public Utilities Commission for permission to build a transmission line from Ely to Las Vegas.</p>< ...
<div><p>The United States needs a major overhaul of the electric grid if the country is to meet its economic ambitions and President Barack Obama's hoped-for green revolution, experts say.</p><p>While there has been no repeat of a power cut on the scale of ...
<div id="subtitle">A power distribution grid based on decades-old assumptions needs modernization</div><div><p> One barrier stands in the way of beginning an appreciable national transition toward energy derived from the sun, wind, underground hot water and other renewable sources.</p><p>That barrier is a ...
<div id="subtitle">Gibbons’ attempt to push renewable energy is nothing more than political posturing</div><div><p> On Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., introduced a blue-ribbon panel on renewable energy, created to push the issue in the state. The panel, which includes government, industry ...
<div><p>Internet titan Google and technology colossus General Electric said Wednesday they are joining forces to promote a "smart" US electric power grid and clean energy.</p><p>The companies said they will work together on green energy technologies and lobby US political leaders to support ...
<div id="subtitle">Congress needs to do what's necessary to help NERC call electric power officers to task and get the power systems they own and operate secured as fully as possible.</div><div><p>The recent news that spies from China, Russia and other countries reportedly had ...
