NV Energy on Friday filed an application with the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada to enter into a power purchase agreement with Apple to expand solar energy in the state.
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Nevada lost more than 2,500 rooftop solar installation jobs in 2016 after state utility regulators imposed new, less favorable net metering rates that slowed the industry to a crawl, a new report released Tuesday shows.
NV Energy and Apple said Wednesday that they agreed to build 200 megawatts of additional solar energy in Nevada by early 2019. In a statement, NV Energy said the projects will supply renewable energy for Apple’s Reno data center.
Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, tapped by President-elect Donald Trump to head the Energy Department, left open Thursday the possibility that Yucca Mountain could house nuclear waste in the future.
NV Energy on Thursday asked state utility regulators to reconsider a decision that restored more favorable net metering rates for up to 1,250 future residential rooftop solar customers in Northern Nevada.
Las Vegas-based data storage company Switch gets top marks in a new report released by Greenpeace ranking internet companies on their renewable energy efforts.
President-elect Donald Trump’s plans regarding site for high-level nuclear waste remain unclear, but his pick for energy secretary endorsed plan to temporarily store it at site in Texas during his governorship.
Sen. Harry Reid, who is retiring after a three-decade political career that saw him rise higher than any Nevada politician before him, has always been the go-to lawmaker on all things related to gaming, tourism and transportation.
State utility regulators, with no dissent, approved an order allowing data storage company Switch to leave as a retail customer of NV Energy and buy power from other providers.
Colorado, Utah and Nevada are teaming up to build an electric vehicle charging network to make it easier for them to travel long distances.
The city of Las Vegas is now drawing 100 percent of its power from renewable energy sources, a goal officials have been working toward for the better part of a decade.
The data storage company Switch and state regulators have reached an agreement to allow the company to leave as a retail customer of NV Energy.
The nation’s growing renewable energy sector won’t be derailed by the transition to a new, seemingly less favorable presidential administration. That was the underlying message Thursday at a ceremony celebrating the completion of Nevada’s newest and largest solar power station.
A small leak in a tank filled with molten salt has shut down a $1 billion solar plant in Central Nevada touted for its ability to generate electricity day or night.
If approved by the commission, it would become the third large gaming company in the state to abandon the state-regulated energy company in recent months.