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Your startup has enjoyed steady profits and your phones are ringing off the hook. But while your business is making more money, it’s costing more and more to run it, and you don’t know why; instead of relishing those constantly ringing phones, you dread them.

You could be in no man’s land, a description used by Doug Tatum, author of No Man’s Land (What to Do When Your Company is TOO BIG to Be Small but TOO SMALL to Be Big). Tatum’s financial leadership business, Tatum LLC, sends CIOs, CFOs or technology consultants to businesses to help them grow out of this awkward "tweener" stage. Read more:

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The American Southwest has some of the best solar resources in the world. Nevada, with abundant land and sunshine is becoming a hot bed for the solar industry. The result is green jobs and billions of investment dollars that are boosting this desert economy.

The opening of Ausra’s solar thermal power factory a few months ago in Las Vegas is a prime example. As the largest plant of its kind in the world, it employs 50 factory workers. At full capacity, the plant can generate 700 MW of solar panels, which could produce enough power for 500,000 homes. This quantity of panels would create an estimated 1,400 solar plant construction jobs. Read more:

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NV Energy, the electric utility formerly known as Nevada Power Co., and other energy companies are studying the feasibility of using solar energy systems to boost production at existing natural gas plants.

NV Energy and Dynegy Inc. will host the studies with support from the Salt River Project, Southern Co. and Progress Energy, the Electric Power Research Institute announced Monday.

The Nevada company is trying to determine the feasibility of attaching a solar thermal power plant to the Chuck Lenzie Generating Station near Las Vegas. Dynegy wants to adapt the technology for use at its Griffith Energy Facility, a gas-fired plant in Kingman, Ariz., that also supplies power to NV Energy. Read full story:

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Nevada EcoNet presented five “Golden Pinecone” awards to individuals and organizations who have made significant contributions toward sustaining and improving the natural environment of the Truckee Meadows. This is the 21st year for the Pinecone Ball and awards celebration. Nominations are accepted at Nevada EcoNet all year round. An advisory board of past winners convenes in August of each year to pick the award winners. CLICK HERE for a full list of recent award winners:

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The solar age is dawning, but the executive of a power producer believes the continuing creditcrisis will cloud prospects for new projects for an indefinite period.

Renewable-energy projects that aren’t already funded will stall until the credit freeze thaws, Michael Allman, chief executive officer of San Diego-based Sempra Generation, an affiliate of San Diego Gas & Electric, said in an interview last week. However, Sempra’s 10-megawatt, photovoltaic project in Boulder City’s Eldorado Valley has been under construction since July and will start generating electricity this month. The power plant will be fully operational by the end of the year, Allman said. It is adjacent to Sempra Generation’s gas-fired, 480-megawatt El Dorado Energy plant.

Sempra Generation is negotiating with two unidentified utilities with the expectation one will buy all of the plant’s output, he said. Read full story:

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