A new rate structure for Nevada Power Co. customers who want to install rooftop solar and participate in net metering would provide a credit of about 5.5 cents per kilowatt hour instead of the current 11.6 cents, according to a filing made Friday by NV Energy with the state Public Utilities Commission.
An agreement struck between Switch, NV Energy and state regulators that would keep the the data storage company as a customer of Nevada Power Co. was approved Thursday by the state Public Utilities Commission.
CARSON CITY — A draft order has been prepared in advance of Thursday’s Public Utilities Commission meeting that would approve an agreement reached between Switch, NV Energy and state regulators to keep the the data storage company as a customer of Nevada Power Co.
Clean-energy advocates said Tuesday that a new EPA-mandated Clean Power Plan for Nevada to reduce its carbon emissions through 2030 is an opportunity to generate jobs and lower utility bills for consumers.
An agreement reached between Switch, NV Energy and state regulators that would keep the data storage company as a customer of the utility is up for review Thursday by the state Public Utilities Commission.
The state Bureau of Consumer Protection has proposed that state regulators authorize a minimum of an additional 17.5 megawatts of net metering capacity so that the rooftop solar industry is not disrupted in Nevada.
Assessing the viability of a potential solar power project comes next for the energy company that secured the lease of public land near Laughlin at Tuesday’s Clark County Commission meeting.
The Southern Nevada Homebuilders Association is supporting a petition by rooftop-solar companies to keep net metering rules in effect until state regulators are able to draft a new policy on the program as directed by the Nevada Legislature.
Southern Nevada residents who want to go green with rooftop solar without having to install and pay for panels on their own homes could soon benefit from a new proposal from Nevada Power.
CARSON CITY – Two major solar power projects proposed by Nevada Power could be a boon to customers because of a dramatic drop in the cost of the renewable energy technology.
Rooftop-solar industry workers turned out in force Friday at the Nevada Public Utility Commission offices in Las Vegas to express concerns that their jobs could soon disappear.
The acquisition triples the size of Tesla‘s property holdings in the Silver State, bringing total acreage to around 3,000.Tesla bought 1,000 acres in the industrial park last year.
CARSON CITY — The data storage company Switch will stay with NV Energy and not seek to leave to find its own electricity on the open market, the utility company reported Tuesday.
NV Energy, operating as Nevada Power Co. in Southern Nevada, recently opened its Business Solutions Center.
Clark County officials hope to spur solar energy development on thousands of acres of county-owned land near Laughlin, after a larger effort to boost development fizzled.
