Daniel Rothberg

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Reid rips energy task force for not proposing net metering fix: Tuesday, June 7, 2016; Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid criticized a state task force for not proposing legislation to reinstate net metering, a policy whereby solar customers received credits for ...
Can virtual reality threaten the brothel industry?: Monday, June 6, 2016; Electronics have treated Sheri’s Ranch well. The cathouse in Pahrump, which claims to be the “unofficial brothel of CES,” reports a 70 percent increase in business when tech employees roll into Las Vegas for the massive trade show each January. But ...
Poll: Nevada voters support solar energy, preservation of public lands: Thursday, June 2, 2016; Across the political spectrum, Nevada voters generally support renewable energy, taxing mining companies, and the preservation of public lands, preferring ...
A guide to hunting in Nevada: Monday, May 30, 2016; Beyond the shadow of our glittering city, the open spaces are rich with wildlife and the promise of hunting it, whether you’re after meat or sport or both. But do you know which animals are protected? How much licenses cost? What a tag is and where you can fish (with a spear)? Our primer has the answers.
Where Sandoval’s energy task force stands on renewables, solar: Friday, May 27, 2016; Representatives from the energy industry and lawmakers on an energy task force Thursday recommended several pieces of legislation that ranged from eliminating outdated statutes to grandfathering ...
Task force: Let pre-2016 solar customers keep old rate: Thursday, May 26, 2016; An energy task force today recommended Nevada’s governor support legislation to let people who installed rooftop solar panels under old, more favorable utility rates keep those rates for 20 years.
Representatives from NV Energy and ...
Las Vegas Sands backing initiative to end NV Energy monopoly: Wednesday, May 25, 2016; Las Vegas Sands Corp. is the main financial backer of a proposed ballot initiative to end NV Energy’s exclusive control over the state’s energy supply, according to ...
In search of solution, solar industry pivots to data, detente: Wednesday, May 25, 2016; Facing sometimes strained relationships with state officials, rooftop solar advocates appear to be adopting a less combative approach and coalescing around a less emotional plea to ...
Report: Benefits of rooftop solar outweigh costs for everyone: Tuesday, May 24, 2016; Adding data to a contentious debate over the value of rooftop solar in Nevada, SolarCity released a report today showing the benefits of rooftop solar outweigh the costs ...
MGM Resorts, Wynn planning to leave NV Energy: Thursday, May 19, 2016; Las Vegas Sands Corp., one of three gaming companies that filed regulatory applications to purchase energy on the open market, is ending a formal effort to leave NV Energy but indicated its intention to remain active on the energy issue. That stands in contrast to a decision by MGM Resorts International, which, pending regulatory approval, anticipates exiting ...
Chinese billionaire had 94 percent stake in firm buying land for Faraday, document shows: Thursday, May 19, 2016; Chinese billionaire Jia Yueting had a roughly 94 percent stake in a company that has been buying Clark County land and working with officials on behalf of ...
‘Early warning signal’: Lake Mead hits historic low: Thursday, May 19, 2016; Lake Mead’s surface Wednesday evening hit its lowest level since the man-made reservoir was created by the building of the Hoover Dam in 1935. The surface of the lake — a critical source of water for Nevada, California, Arizona and Mexico — is expected to drop lower in the coming weeks, but rebound before the beginning of next year, when jurisdictions would be asked to accept shortages in supply. At 7 p.m. Wednesday, the elevation inched below ...
Panel discusses merits of allowing wagering on video gaming events: Friday, May 13, 2016; State leaders and regulators explored today whether Nevada could allow wagering on e-sports, a growing industry of video game competitions that attracts millennials and is expected to bring in $1.9 billion by 2018 ...
Nevada officials had to hustle to get Hyperloop test-ready in six months: Thursday, May 12, 2016; The story of how Hyperloop One came to test its product in Nevada started 2,400 miles away in Washington, D.C., with a former top aide of President Barack Obama and a venture capitalist who heard firsthand of the hyperloop concept while traveling with SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk. In 2013, Musk had outlined ...
Hyperloop One officials call test of technology a landmark moment: Wednesday, May 11, 2016; Hyperloop One, racing to build a transportation platform that propels high-speed pods down pneumatic tubes, completed a test of its propulsion technology this morning in North Las Vegas ...
Nevada prepared for more Lake Mead cuts without ‘drastic steps’: Wednesday, May 11, 2016; Lake Mead is expected to surpass its historic low after next week. And as the elevation drops, Nevada, Arizona and California are working out a new framework for ...
Hyperloop executives offer update ahead of North Las Vegas test: Tuesday, May 10, 2016; Executives from a company testing Hyperloop, the futuristic transportation platform that propels pods down pneumatic tubes, in North Las Vegas said they want to reimagine the way people ...
New database highlights Nevada’s connection to Panama Papers: Tuesday, May 10, 2016; The database published on Monday showed 1,260 entities active in Nevada from the Panama Papers and a previous leak, though only a portion of those companies remain ...
NV Energy to ditch plans to build $1B plant, will buy cheaper one in Arizona: Thursday, May 5, 2016; NV Energy does not expect to build a new fossil fuel power plant in the next decade, making it unlikely that it will go forward with a controversial $1 billion natural gas plant that the utility had proposed last fall. The utility, instead, signed an agreement early last month to purchase an existing Arizona natural gas plant, according to a recent federal regulatory filing. Pending state and federal approval ...
Buffett vs. Musk: The clash of old and new energy titans: Monday, May 2, 2016; The battle over the future of Nevada’s energy grid is being waged now, with billionaires Elon Musk and Warren Buffett on opposing sides. Both say the goal is to go green, but they have different methods of ...
Panel agrees existing solar customers should pay old power rate: Thursday, April 28, 2016; Representatives from NV Energy, the state Bureau of Consumer Protection and solar companies agreed in principle today that most existing rooftop solar customers should ...
Will residential storage batteries be bonanza for solar consumers?: Thursday, April 21, 2016; At a Spring Valley home not far from the Las Vegas headquarters of the Public Utilities Commission, a group gathered Wednesday to showcase what it proclaimed as a potential game-changer in solar electricity generation. The focus: a new piece of technology designed to ...
Virtual-reality porn is coming to 1 or more hotels: Tuesday, April 19, 2016; Welcome to the 21st century: Immersive porn is coming to Las Vegas. Virtual Reality Bangers, a Los Angeles-based company that produces immersive, 360-degree porn, announced its …
For those who forget to take medications, Las Vegas tech startup offers help: Tuesday, April 19, 2016; Concerned about studies showing people often don't adhere to their doctors' orders in taking medication, Las Vegas resident Peter Havas decided he would tackle the problem by creating a tech startup. The result was PillDrill, a product that uses ...
PUC chair: No regrets about solar decision: Monday, April 18, 2016; Paul Thomsen defends the Public Utility Commission's controversial decision not to grandfather existing customers and talks about the tactics used by the solar industry ...
NV Energy-backed group pushes to keep solar rates high: Wednesday, April 13, 2016; An NV Energy-backed group, Citizens for Solar and Energy Fairness, is ratcheting up its campaign to keep a new rate structure that increases bills for rooftop solar customers. It argues that those rates keep energy rates low for ...
Mayor: ‘Desert gets its oasis’ with Faraday groundbreaking: Wednesday, April 13, 2016; Executives for electric car company Faraday Future, suppliers and politicians celebrated the official kickoff to construction on the company’s North Las Vegas manufacturing plant with a Champagne toast Wednesday afternoon. Gov. Brian Sandoval and North Las Vegas Mayor John Lee were among those to ...
Further Future’s second installment will feature an interactive tech program: Wednesday, April 13, 2016; The program includes virtual reality displays, a demo of the world’s most realistic robotic face and a talk from Requiem for a Dream director Darren Aronofsky.
Big day for Faraday: Carmaker’s ceremonial groundbreaking today: Wednesday, April 13, 2016; Electric car company Faraday Future is scheduled to break ground this afternoon on its Southern Nevada production plant, the centerpiece of a vision to turn North Las Vegas into a manufacturing powerhouse for the region and make the state's economy less dependent on tourism, gaming and mining. Faraday Future executives ...
Real-time traffic app Waze to help Las Vegas drivers through rough stretch: Saturday, April 9, 2016; As Las Vegas braces for $1 billion in road construction, the Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada is working with Waze, the popular real-time traffic app ...
SpaceX rocket awaiting launch Friday to carry cargo from Las Vegas company: Thursday, April 7, 2016; An ambitious Las Vegas company will have a lot riding on the SpaceX rocket awaiting a launch Friday in Cape Canaveral. Bigelow Aerospace, under a $17.8 million contract with NASA, is sending an inflatable habitat module aboard the SpaceX craft bound for the ...
Precious metal: Is Nevada on the verge of a lithium rush?: Wednesday, April 6, 2016; Five years ago, a wave of lithium prospectors came and went quickly in Nevada. But lithium extractors have returned to the state, hoping to capitalize on bullish projections that ...
NV Energy says fall in fuel prices has lowered customers’ bills again: Tuesday, April 5, 2016; Electricity rates for Southern Nevada residential and commercial customers decreased on April 1, NV Energy announced on Monday. Attributed to a fall in fuel prices and lower costs, the utility said customers could see their overall payments fall by more than 3 percent. The company said this is the fourth consecutive rate decrease since ...
Q+A: CEO of drone startup reflects on making first urban delivery: Tuesday, April 5, 2016; The Reno-headquartered company that says it's ahead of tech giants Amazon and Google in the U.S. delivery drone race is a startup you’ve probably never heard of. Its name is Flirtey, and like its larger corporate competitors ...
UNLV campus among thousands of customers affected by power outage: Monday, April 4, 2016; More than 19,000 NV Energy customers in Clark County, including UNLV, were left without power Monday afternoon due to a large outage. The power company said on Twitter that it had dispatched crews to fix ...
Bankrupt Las Vegas solar installer loses license to contract: Thursday, March 31, 2016; Summerlin Energy Las Vegas, the subject of the largest investigation in the Nevada State Contractors Board’s history, had its license with the regulator revoked after a hearing today. The firm filed for bankruptcy last month, facing a lawsuit from …
At UNLV, whistleblowers call for accountability in military drone program: Wednesday, March 30, 2016; In 2009, as a technician for the U.S. Air Force in Kandahar, Afghanistan, Cian Westmoreland embarked on a seemingly nonviolent action. It has come to haunt him. “I did a lot of damage with what I did and it was very civil. The thing that scares me most about war is not necessarily the brutality of it but ...
Las Vegas' Remark Media teams with Alibaba on social media app, data tool: Wednesday, March 30, 2016; Las Vegas-headquartered Remark Media Inc. announced an expanded partnership Wednesday with Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba as part an effort to bolster KanKan, a mobile application that aggregates and organizes billions of data points from ...
Nevada judge rules to disqualify solar industry’s ballot measure: Monday, March 28, 2016; A Carson City judge ruled to disqualify a ballot measure that would restore more generous rates for rooftop solar customers, a setback for solar advocates who had been aggressively campaigning for ...
Are brighter days ahead for Nevada solar customers?: Monday, March 28, 2016; With solar companies pulling out of Nevada after a Public Utilities Commission decision to approve a major rate hike, many wonder if customers' investment in rooftop panels was worth it. We take a look at the state of the solar industry and the burning questions ...
Hyperloop Technologies gets $9.2 million in tax incentives: Friday, March 25, 2016; State officials approved tax incentives worth an estimated $9.2 million for Hyperloop Technologies Inc., one of the teams competing to build a transportation platform that ...
Tesla, Switch backing effort to end NV Energy monopoly: Friday, March 25, 2016; Tesla and Las Vegas data company Switch are backing a ballot initiative to create a competitive electricity market, a move that would effectively end NV Energy’s monopoly. In the past year, both companies have ...
Hyperloop sparks high-tech hopes for development in North Las Vegas: Friday, March 25, 2016; If Hyperloop Technologies has its way, North Las Vegas could become one of the few locations for testing the futuristic transportation platform that propels ...
Rooftop solar fees become dominant issue for Nevada energy task force: Wednesday, March 23, 2016; With Gov. Brian Sandoval's administration eager to move past damaging publicity from a regulatory decision to increase bills for Nevada rooftop solar customers, the possibility of amending that decision was a key issue during an energy task force meeting Tuesday. The task force plans to study the issue as it ...
Hyperloop Technologies seeks $9 million in Nevada tax incentives: Tuesday, March 22, 2016; Hyperloop Technologies Inc. is applying for tax incentives worth an estimated $9 million to build testing facilities for the company’s high-speed transportation platform in ...
Sandoval aide: Nevada’s clean energy reputation is damaged: Tuesday, March 22, 2016; A controversial decision increasing costs for rooftop solar customers loomed over the first meeting of a task force charged with recommending a long-term plan for clean energy in Nevada. Convened ...
In fantasy sports, Las Vegas tech entrepreneurs see dream come true: Tuesday, March 22, 2016; David Stetler, a Las Vegas-based web developer, faces a unique challenge running an online service for players of daily fantasy sports. He often needs to check the sites of ...
Elon Musk taking direct approach to lobbying Nevada lawmakers on solar energy: Wednesday, March 16, 2016; Elon Musk is lobbying Nevada lawmakers to support the development of rooftop solar energy, and he's doing it with a face-to-face approach. Musk welcomed a group of ...
Desert Research Institute loses bid to run Energy Department lab: Thursday, March 10, 2016; The Desert Research Institute was notified this morning that it had not been awarded a Department of Energy contract to manage a research installation near the Oak Ridge National Lab in ...
Meltdown: What happened when a Las Vegas solar company fell apart: Thursday, March 10, 2016; A Las Vegas homeowner is out more than $18,000. A company claims it is owed more than $700,000. The list of claims stretches into the hundreds. So goes the fallout in the saga of a Las Vegas-based solar company that ...