Apple wants a bite of Nevada’s solar power industry.
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KINGMAN, Ariz. — Interior Secretary Sally Jewell issued a key approval Friday for a plan to harvest the wind that blows across northwest Arizona to generate power for as many as 175,000 homes.
Gov. Brian Sandoval on Monday reappointed Alaina Burtenshaw as chairwoman of the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada.
The roster of speakers at Sen. Harry Reid’s upcoming Clean Energy Summit has grown.
Drafty old buildings in downtown Las Vegas wouldn’t need to meet modern energy codes under a proposal the city council approved Wednesday.
A China-based company’s plan to build a solar energy plant south of Laughlin and create hundreds jobs has died.
A top local power executive will take over as the public face of an industry trade group.
The Bureau of Land Management announced Friday that it is extending the public comment period on its proposed revised rule to regulate hydraulic fracturing for oil and gas on public and Indian trust lands to Aug. 23.
It’s the power ratepayer’s worst fear. A big conglomerate consumes the local electric utility, and energy costs soar. And that’s what has actually happened with some operations of MidAmerican Energy Holdings Co., the Warren Buffet-owned company that on Wednesday announced its $10 billion buyout of NV Energy.
Nevada’s corporate community got a big jolt Wednesday when the world’s best-known investor dropped a few billion bucks on the local power company.
There won’t be much energy loss through the newly insulated walls at Mingo Kitchen and Lounge in downtown Las Vegas.
Sempra U.S. Gas & Power has sold part of its interest in a local solar power plant.
Technology created an energy revolution over the past decade — just not the one we expected. By now, cars were supposed to be running on fuel made from plant waste or algae — or powered by hydrogen or cheap batteries that burned nothing at all.
Favorable weather, lower operations and maintenance costs, due in part to the timing of power plant outages, helped boost NV Energy Inc.’s bottom line in the first quarter, the utility reported Friday.