There's billions of dollars for renewable energy development in the stimullus bill signed by the president and millions are headed to Nevada in investment credits and public projects ready for the green revolution.

Some local energy entrepreneurs say it will mean jobs and some could be working within weeks.

"I think it means that my company and Nevada workers we employ and other companies and the workers they employ within the next 30 days will see the results of this in going right back to work." says Chris Brooks of Bombard Renewable Energy, a Nevada based solar energy company.

Brooks' firm once had 100 people installing solar systems throughout the state. He now has only 9, but thinks he will be rehiring a dozen in the coming weeks.

One reason for that fast start. All those public projects in the stimulus bill. While the credit crunch continues to stall commercial and residential construction, that's not true of public projects that now have a source of funding.

"There's already mechanisms in place to distribute money to them for capital imrprovement projects and for renewable energy projects," says Brookes, "and we've been working with a lot of those entities to identify those projects with the best value."

The boost won't be as immediate for wind power. Unlike solar, wind generation faces a pair of other obstacles, one is a lengthy permitting process, the other is public resistance.

Rich Hamilton of Great Basin Wind has plans for a wind farm on the ridge tops above Virginia City. His turbines will be sitting on public land. that means a lenghty environmental impact process.

He figures construction will start in next year or in 2011. Still, he says, the stimulus may be just what his industry and the state needs.

"We have ample sun and ample geothermal resources and we have ample wind. We should be not only powering ourselves. We should be exporting electrons."