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Governor Jim Gibbons recently released the Phase 1 report prepared by the Renewable Energy Transmission Access Advisory Committee (RETAAC).  The Governor created this advisory committee in May 2007 to identify potential development locations for renewable energy and assess existing and planned transmission access to these resources. He also charged the committee to make recommendations for additional transmission lines, so that we can work towards setting the infrastructure and bring our renewable energy resources to the market place.

“Increased renewable energy development will be the key that frees Nevada of its dependence on imported energy,” said Governor Gibbons. 

Nevada currently spends over $6 billion dollars a year on imported energy including electricity, natural gas, and transportation fuel.

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Time: Thursday, January 31, 2008 at 1:00 p.m. ET (10:00 a.m. PT)

Hosts: Ellen Thrasher, SBA’s Director of Business & Community Initiatives, and Michael McGeehan, Government Customer Manager with Dun & Bradstreet (D&B)

Ellen Thrasher, SBA’s Director of Business & Community Initiatives, and Michael McGeehan, Government Customer Manager with Dun & Bradstreet, will host the January Web chat on “Managing Business Credit.” Thrasher and McGeehan will answer questions to help chat participants learn the importance and use of business credit, and how business credit can help to improve business profitability.

Learn more or submit a question:

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“Rocket scientist” is American slang for an exceptionally intelligent person, but Sara McAllister qualifies in the literal sense, as well.

The 2000 Wooster High School graduate is pursuing her doctorate in mechanical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, and is the lead graduate student researcher on a NASA-funded project exploring how fires can start and spread in the gravity-free environment of vessels in outer space.

What her team discovers about the unique circumstances of accidental blazes on electronics-laden spacecraft, with their equipment made of flammable composite materials, someday could help determine the success of long space missions. Read full story:

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Green building in residential developments is finally catching on in Las Vegas.

After years of committees and discussions and negotiations, the Southern Nevada Green Building Partnership, in conjunction with five area builders, is seeing the first midpriced certified green homes being built in Las Vegas.

Green building concepts have been popular in the West for years, mostly in the custom-home market. But as more builders become comfortable with green building techniques and materials and more architects routinely create green designs, conservation-oriented homes are becoming more economical and common. Read more:

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A California company plans to invest $49.5 million to develop a photovoltaic farm about 15 miles north of Yerington.

GlobalWatt Inc. hopes to begin construction of the solar facility at Wabuska in April, with completion scheduled about 12 months later.

When it’s complete, the solar plant would generate about 6 megawatts of electricity — enough power for nearly 1,700 households. GlobalWatt officials say they hope to expand the plant to 75 megawatts within five years. Read full story:

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