North Las Vegas residents yet to weigh in on a controversial power plant proposed near Losee and Lone Mountain Roads might find themselves in a bit of a bind.
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The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, sprawling across roughly 5 square miles of federal land near the California-Nevada border, formally opens Thursday. It’s considered a key marker in the emerging solar power industry.
The 231-mile One Nevada transmission line, which connects Northern and Southern Nevada electricity grids, was dedicated in a ceremony Thursday.
Here’s another superlative for the Las Vegas landscape. Since 2011 the Harmon Retail Corner has been home to the world’s largest light-emitting diode, or LED, screen, but now the sign is green, too.
Visitors walking through the Springs Preserve botanical garden saw a house being lifted into the air by a 350-ton crane on Tuesday afternoon. The gardens will become the permanent home of the UNLV DesertSol home.
NV Energy CEO Michael Yackira will retire in June. He will be replaced by Paul Caudill, former president of MidAmerican Solar. Caudill joins the electrical utility immediately.
The Public Utilities Commission of Nevada unanimously approved the $5.6 billion sale of NV Energy to MidAmerican Energy Holdings Co. on Monday, including stipulations outlined in a settlement agreement filed Oct. 28.
The city of Henderson recently partnered with EnergyFit Nevada to promote energy efficiency in targeted communities.
The largest natural gas and electric service provider in northwest Arizona would merge with Canada’s largest investor-owned gas and electric distribution utility under a proposal unveiled Wednesday.
When BrightSource Energy announced in March 2009 that it would build a 600-megawatt solar power plant as part of the huge Coyote Springs development northwest of Las Vegas, there were cigars all around.
A $20 million credit could be coming to NV Energy customers if the Nevada Public Utilities Commission accepts a settlement agreement involving MidAmerican Energy Holdings, NV Energy, the Bureau for Consumer Protection and PUC regulatory operations staff.
The hills of southern Iowa bear the scars of America’s push for green energy: The brown gashes where rain has washed away the soil. The polluted streams that dump fertilizer into the water supply. It wasn’t supposed to be this way.
NV Energy customers will no longer foot the bill for $1 billion of MidAmerican Energy Holdings’s costs to buy NV Energy, and customers will also be refunded $20 million in the form of a bill credit, according to a settlement agreement filed by NV Energy with the state Public Utilities Commission.