by David Sassoon -
Mar 5th, 2008 
July 4th 2007 was Nancy Pelosi's energy independence day, a day when new legislation delivered by the Democratic majority was supposed to start delivering America out of the hands of fossil fuel interests and toward a responsible posture on global warming.
Not much happened in Congress then -- or quite frankly, since -- but something else did happen last July that's worth remembering instead: the first step on the road to generating 10% to 20% of the nation's energy from the sun by 2030, according to solar energy CEO Peter Duprey.
A project called Nevada Solar One got switched on in a place called Boulder City, Nevada. Congress didn't notice even though it was the first plant of its kind to be built in 17 years, and was, in Duprey's words, "the beginning of the resurgence of large-scale concentrated solar power in the US and the world."
If the beef he has with Washington gets resolved, that is. Here's the crux of it.
Bookmark/Search this post with:
