Harry Reid on Monday at a Las Vegas Strip resort.
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He has set a target of reducing U.S. carbon emissions by 26 percent to 28 percent below 2005 levels in 2025.
“Today, as the fastest-growing source of renewable energy in America, solar thrives because of the hard work and innovation of its 174,000 workers”.
Obama’s keynote speech is scheduled to close the eighth National Clean Energy Summit at the Mandalay Bay.
The Heartland Institute, a conservative think tank that denies manmade climate change and gets money from the billionaire Koch brothers was among groups co-sponsoring a simultaneous “affordable energy summit” in Las Vegas as a counterpoint to Reid’s gathering. He’ll announce new efforts to make it easier for homeowners and businesses to invest in green energy improvements that in the past may have been impractical or unaffordable.
“Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) financing is a simple, cost-effective way for Americans to take ownership of their energy use and generation”.
Among the steps to be announced Monday, the Energy Department will add as much as $1 billion in loan authority to help promote innovation in so-called distributed energy projects such as rooftop solar energy, energy storage and smart-grid technology.
The White House also announced the approval of a transmission line for a 485-megawatt solar facility in California and the creation of a Department of Defense program to instal solar power at housing facilities on 40 military bases.
The Wilderness Society’s Chase Huntley called the project a good example “of how we can meet our clean energy goals with limited impact to wildlands and wildlife habitat”.
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Later, the president will attend a fundraiser in Henderson for Democratic senate candidate Catherine Cortez Masto.
