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Here’s a little background on the Solar Power deal.

Senator Harry Reid’s son Rory has acknowledged representing ENN Mojave Energy LLC, a subsidiary of a Chinese Company.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/31/us-usa-china-reid-solar-idUSBRE87U06D20120831

That project provided a sweetheart land deal for ENN to purchase land near Laughlin, NV. That deal failed do to the fact that NV Energy (the Nevada public utility) refused to buy the power that the ENN project would produce.

06/2013

ENN Mojave Energy ends Laughlin solar plant attempt

.....LAUGHLIN — ENN Mojave Energy representatives informed Clark County officials today that they could not obtain power purchase agreements with utility companies within necessary contract deadlines, thus triggering an automatic termination of an agreement to create a solar power generation, manufacturing and research facility on 9,000 acres in southern Clark County....

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http://www.mynews3.com/mostpopular/story/ENN-Mojave-Energy-Laughlin-solar-power-plant/OMNWSjS5wkSSYO11EO34PA.cspx

As for NV Energy, the company really doesn’t need more power, “green” or otherwise. NV Energy projects it will sell 2.1 percent less electricity this year than last, and its projections are for power sales to increase about 1 percent a year or less.

http://4thst8.wordpress.com/tag/enn-mojave-energy/

(more links in the above)

So, what does Reid et al do ?

Well, they also had introduced in the Nevada State legislature, SB123;

http://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/77th2013/Reports/history.cfm?billname=SB123

This bill forces NV Energy to reduce their reliance on coal and to replace it with “Green Energy”. An attempt to force them to purchase “green power” from the likes of ENN.

Just read the bill.

Legislative Counsel’s Digest:
Section 7 of this bill requires an electric utility which primarily serves densely
populated counties (currently only Clark County) and which, in the most recently
completed calendar year or in any other calendar year within the 7 calendar years
immediately preceding the most recently completed calendar year, had a gross
operating revenue of $250,000,000 or more in this State to submit to the Public
Utilities Commission of Nevada a comprehensive plan for the reduction of
emissions from coal-fired electric generating plants and the replacement of the
capacity of such plants with increased capacity from renewable energy facilities
and other electric generating plants. Section 7 prescribes the minimum
requirements of such an emissions reduction and capacity replacement plan, which
include: (1) the retirement or elimination of not less than 800 megawatts of
coal-fired electric generating capacity on or before December 31, 2019; (2) the
construction or acquisition of, or contracting for, 350 megawatts of electric
generating capacity from renewable energy facilities; and (3) the construction or
acquisition of 550 megawatts of electric generating capacity from other electric
generating plants. Section 9 of this bill provides for the recovery of certain costs
incurred by an electric utility in carrying out an emissions reduction and capacity
replacement plan.

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So, NV Energy doesn’t need or want the “Green Energy” and then they passed a law that will effectively force them to accept the higher cost and unreliable “Green” energy.

BTW, The coal plant in question is substantially closer to Bunkerville than Laughlin.