California billionaire Tom Steyer, best known for bankrolling a campaign to impeach Donald Trump, will be in Nevada Thursday to take on a new fight — protecting undocumented immigrants.
Energy
A solar panel project developed in part by Las Vegas-based data center company Switch will create 1,250 construction jobs.
The Clark County School Board heard strong community support for a proposal to switch to solar power for the potential of millions in savings throughout the next two decades.
A dedicated solar array 375 miles away near Fallon will supply renewable energy to power the $1.5 billion development soon to begin construction on the site of the former Desert Inn Golf Club, just east of Wynn Las Vegas and Encore.
Nevada’s largest school district — the fifth biggest in the nation — could become the first major public entity to leave NV Energy under a proposal headed to school board trustees this week.
On Thursday, the School Board is set to hear a presentation from Capital Dynamics, an independent global asset manager, to discuss “potential energy savings” of millions of dollars for the district.
A global energy agency says that U.S. oil production is booming and is forecast to top that of heavyweights Saudi Arabia and Russia this year.
A top state regulatory official on Tuesday likened a controversial ballot measure that would allow Nevadans to pick their power provider to getting a tattoo.
Tesla took a new approach to U.S. home solar installations in the beginning of the year with its SolarCity subsidiary. Its consequences impacted the entire industry.
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke launched a campaign Thursday to identify domestic deposits of critical minerals in Nevada and other states in order to break dependence on foreign supplies of raw materials needed for military equipment and consumer goods like cellphones and computers.
Officials are marking completion of a utility-scale solar electric generation array near Las Vegas built to power the operations of commercial data centers in Northern and Southern Nevada .
President Donald Trump’s top budget man, Mick Mulvaney, solved a mystery Tuesday. Asked who put $120 million into Trump’s spending plan to restart licensing for a Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository and other interim storage, Mulvaney said he did it.
NV Energy has filed a request with the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada to approve three new long-term power purchase agreements totaling 100 megawatts.
Conservationists are bashing the latest move to open more federal land in Nevada to oil exploration, this time in the Ruby Mountains of Elko County.
The Nevada Public Utilities Commission has scheduled consumer sessions for Nevada Power customers who want to comment on the utility’s controversial revised three-year general rate application.