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Jobs, costs at heart of energy debate
Two local groups released dueling studies this week on the costs and benefits of Nevada’s renewable portfolio standard, a state law that requires power utility NV Energy to obtain 25 percent of its electricity from renewable sources such as solar and geothermal by 2025.
Study: RPS to cost Nevadans $2.2 billion, 1,930 jobs over 12 years
LAS VEGAS — Government-energy mandates will cost Nevadans $2.275 billion while lowering employment by 1,930 jobs over the next dozen years, concludes a new study from the Nevada Policy Research Institute. The study, entitled RPS: A Recipe for Economic Decline, details the wealth-destroying impact of Nevada’s Renewable Portfolio Standard, which mandates that NV Energy use renewable-energy resources to supply 25 percent of Nevada’s electricity by 2025. The report was produced by three scholars from the Beacon Hill Institute for Public Policy Research at Suffolk University: David G. Tuerck, Paul Bachman and Michael Head.
Nevada clean-energy entrepreneur faces hostile bureaucracies, subsidized competitors
More business-friendly Texas suggests he leave Nevada, relocate there
Nevada clean-energy entrepreneur faces hostile bureaucracies, subsidized competitors
More business-friendly Texas asks him to leave Nevada and relocate there.