Going against the will of 72 percent of Nevada voters isn’t a wise idea, but that’s not stopping Assemblyman Chris Brooks, D-Las Vegas.
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The Reid Gardner Generating Station has ended its operations. NV Energy will spend the rest of 2017 decommissioning the coal-fired power plant 50 miles northeast of Las Vegas.
After more than five decades, the Reid Gardner Generating Station has ended its operations. NV Energy will spend the rest of 2017 decommissioning the coal-fired power plant located 50 miles northeast of Las Vegas.
The fourth unit at the plant at Moapa owned by NV Energy exhausted its coal supply and shut down over the weekend.
As solar and renewable energy measures took center stage at the Legislature on Wednesday, a national group reported that Nevada more than doubled its solar capacity in 2016 to 2,191 megawatts over 1,033 megawatts in 2015.
Caesars Entertainment Corp. has won approval from state utility regulators to leave Nevada Power Co. and purchase its power supplies on the wholesale market.
A Nevada utility company is seeking approval for a renewable energy program that would provide customers with an alternative to rooftop solar.
State officials are applying for several grants to pay for a network of charging stations to accommodate a likely surge in electric vehicles hitting Nevada’s roads and highways.
State officials are applying for several grants to pay for a network of charging stations to accommodate a likely surge in electric vehicles hitting Nevada’s roads and highways.
Supporters of renewable energy rallied at both ends of the state Monday to support efforts in the Nevada Legislature this session to promote solar and other renewables as a way to help the environment, improve health and create jobs.
Nevada’s burgeoning rooftop solar industry crashed and burned last year after new rates for net metering were approved that did away with financial incentives for the green energy investment. Now several state lawmakers want to get the industry back on track and growing again.
Caesars Entertainment Corp. has reached agreement to pay a $44 million “exit fee” to leave as a retail customer of Nevada Power and purchase its own power supplies on the wholesale market.
NV Energy customers who were grandfathered in under more favorable net metering rates as a result of a 2016 decision by state utility regulators need to act soon if they want to take advantage of the opportunity.
The data storage company Switch announced Tuesday that it has opened what it calls the largest, most advanced data center campus in the world – also known as The Citadel Campus, at the Tahoe Reno Industrial Center east of Reno.
NV Energy announced on Monday that the 50-megawatt Boulder Solar II power plant achieved commercial operation status and is now serving NV Energy customers in Nevada.