PHOTO: Capturing the sun

LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL

March 16, 2013 - 1:21 am

Visitors take a tour Friday at Sempra Energy’s Copper Mountain Solar 2 photovoltaic site in the Eldorado Valley, south of Boulder City. Gov. Brian Sandoval and the company’s executives dedicated the 92-megawatt first phase of the site. The San Diego-based company also announced the start of construction of Copper Mountain Solar 3, a 250-megawatt project scheduled to be fully operational in 2015. The solar projects will make up the largest complex of its kind when construction is completed.

Cows are milked twice daily with the process continuing all-day long do to the thousands of hea ...

Nevada dairy farm could become solar facility

By Emerson Drewes / RJ

January 9, 2025 - 2:49 pm

An agreement has been signed to turn the 3,000-acre dairy farm into a solar energy facility.

A bleached sandhill skipper in the meadows at Baltazor Hot Spring in Humboldt County, Nevada, o ...

This rare Nevada butterfly will soon get federal protections

By Alan Halaly / RJ

January 8, 2025 - 7:00 am

Environmentalists say the 1-inch-long butterfly could be affected by plans to build an 84-acre geothermal energy plant.

The Ruby Mountains are seen from Spring Creek, Nevada, showing Ruby Dome on the right, on April ...

Oil exploration in this part of Nevada soon to be ruled out for 20 years

By Alan Halaly / RJ

December 30, 2024 - 4:19 pm

Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., called the move by the Biden administration to block energy exploration “a historic step.”

The Valmy power plant in Humboldt County houses the last coal-generated power facility in Nevad ...

NV Energy’s plan to build solar, battery plants, more approved

By Emerson Drewes / RJ

December 20, 2024 - 3:16 pm

The Public Utilities Commission approved NV Energy’s plans for keeping up with future energy demand.

Walker River Paiute Tribe's Walker River Indian Reservation in Schurz on June 18, 2020. (K.M. C ...

EPA awards Nevada tribe $20M for water, cooling center

By Alan Halaly / RJ

December 13, 2024 - 10:00 am

The Walker River Paiute Tribe in west-central Nevada is a step closer to strengthening its water delivery system and making homes on the reservation more energy efficient.

Solar panels are seen at the Harry Allen Power Plant on Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024, in Las Vegas. N ...

Here’s what NV Energy is proposing to build to keep up with energy demand

By Emerson Drewes / RJ

December 6, 2024 - 11:00 am

NV Energy has a plan to keep up with the growing population and energy demand in Nevada, including building three solar and battery storage plants.

FILE - NV Energy President and CEO Doug Cannon speaks about partnering with the city of Las Veg ...

More community solar on parking lots in Las Vegas? NV Energy asks for input

By Alan Halaly / RJ

November 13, 2024 - 3:31 pm

Customers can vote on nine sites in Southern Nevada that executives are considering to place the next community solar project.

As energy demand skyrockets in Las Vegas, NV Energy turns to solar

By Alan Halaly / RJ

October 29, 2024 - 5:07 pm

All the way north on Las Vegas Boulevard, the utility is harnessing the power of the sun for the valley’s 2.3 million residents to use.

FILE - Construction continues at the Thacker Pass lithium mine on April 24, 2023, near Orovada, ...

Nevada lithium mine gets $2.26B Department of Energy loan

By Emerson Drewes / RJ

October 28, 2024 - 2:33 pm

A lithium company has closed on a federal loan from the Biden-Harris Administration for $2.26 billion in an effort to expand EV manufacturing and increase high-paying jobs.

Luke Cianciotto, an Amazon driver and a member of Teamsters of Chicago, looks out at Crystal Sp ...

Lithium is Nevada’s future. U.S. workers tour state’s hot spots

By Alan Halaly / RJ

October 25, 2024 - 2:06 pm

A group of auto workers, transit advocates and others from across the country visited Nevada’s lithium sites this week. Here’s why.