ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – One of the National Security Administration’s three national laboratories is building regional testing centers around the country to field-test hardware for solar companies before their multimillion-dollar solar systems are installed in buildings.
Sociologists, environmental historians, historical preservationists and others came to Las Vegas from all over the nation Saturday to tell stories about how they preserved a sense of place.
What good are clean-energy cars if the batteries that power them catch fire? That’s the problem a UNLV research team will try to unravel under a three-year, $2.5 million grant that Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced Wednesday.
The sun is shining more brightly on the Moapa River Indian Reservation north of Las Vegas. Los Angeles City Council members approved a $1.6 billion, 25-year pact Tuesday to purchase solar power from a company that will build nearly 1 million photovoltaic panels on tribal land.
A massive, slightly radioactive piece of steam generator dismantled from a nuclear power plant in Southern California is scheduled to roll very deliberately across rural Nevada next week on its way to a dump in Utah.
