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.
Moapa Band of Paiutes tribe members led a 16-mile Earth Day weekend walk to put the spotlight on plans to close a coal-fired power plant and build a solar energy plant in Southern Nevada.
Long before she moved to Nevada, Dilek Samil marveled from afar at NV Energy.
NV Energy has floated a plan to shut down a controversial power plant 50 miles northeast of Las Vegas as part of a statewide move away from coal.
The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration has fined NV Energy for a workplace accident that took an employee’s life.
A single dead eagle could spell trouble for a White Pine County wind farm that sells power to NV Energy.
A new local business wants to help car fleets save on fuel.
A Southern Nevada Indian tribe is accusing NV Energy of submitting phony air pollution data to state regulators for a coal-burning power plant tribal members insist is making them sick.
