For the first time in its more than 100-year history, the three-member Public Utilities Commission of Nevada is entirely made up of women.
Energy
State is home to enough old mines and other former industrial sites to accommodate the new solar, wind and geothermal plants that would enable it to reach the 50 percent renewable energy standard, an analysis shows.
Nevada voters are favoring taking the first step toward requiring their energy providers to get at least half of their electricity from renewable sources.
Environmentalists are celebrating a court ruling that removed more than a million acres of federal land in Western states from an upcoming oil and gas auction in greater sage grouse habitat, including about 330,000 acres in Nevada.
The Nevada Public Utilities Commission approved Station Casinos’ and Fulcrum Sierra BioFuels’ requests to leave NV Energy at a meeting Wednesday morning.
NV Energy is giving developers and suppliers a chance to add an additional 350 megawatts of new, renewable energy projects in Nevada, enough to power more than 200,000 additional homes.
A utility company wants Nevadans to foot the bill for costs associated with houses for its employees, “frivolous” charges for consultants and even employee massages, a state review found.
The New American Road Trip is a 12-day electric vehicle tour across America. The tour’s first public stop was in Las Vegas on Sunday.
An independent research center explored both sides of six ballot measures facing Nevada voters in November — four of which would be etched into the state constitution.
When it comes to Question 3, the politically charged energy choice measure on the ballot in Nevada, a political line has been drawn over a single term: Deregulation.
Nevada’s largest casino industry trade group is throwing its support behind the effort to break up NV Energy’s electricity monopoly.
Nevada residents can expect to see a drop in electricity rates thanks to the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, according to a new analysis.
Gov. Brian Sandoval on Friday appointed Ann Wilkinson to be the new chairwoman of Nevada’s Public Utilities Commission.
A draft environmental assessment obtained by foes would allow leases on all of the nearly 54,000 acres requested by an oil and gas developer but with restrictions that would force horizontal drilling from neighboring BLM land.
Four major clean energy advocacy groups announced Thursday that they oppose Question 3, the ballot initiative that would break up NV Energy’s monopoly and create an open energy market in Nevada.