Win or lose, UNLV’s entry in a prestigious solar energy competition will have a nice, sunny place to come home to.
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Local natural-gas utility Southwest Gas Corp. said Tuesday that it improved its financial results in the fourth quarter and posted record earnings per share in 2012.
Start with a rate increase, throw in some piping-hot summer temperatures, add a dash of customer growth and stir in some debt reduction, and you have NV Energy’s recipe for earnings growth in the fourth quarter and 2012.
NV Energy is warning ratepayers to look out for robbers posing as company employees.
Frank Giordano had to work through more than just technical obstacles when the Clark County School District started using biodiesel fuel for school buses in 2001. Every time a bus was disabled on the side of the road with a flat tire, biodiesel got the blame. Bus drivers joked they were running on french fry oil.
The public is invited to attend the National Biodiesel Conference and Expo at The Mirage conference center on Wednesday free of charge.
Nevada is ranked No. 10 in the nation with 3.74 million square feet of LEED-certified green building completed in 2012, or 1.39 square feet per capita, the U.S. Green Building Council found.
Energy Secretary Steven Chu, who carried out the Obama administration’s plan to shut down the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste project and oversaw the distribution of billions of dollars in loans to boost renewable energy, said Friday he will step down from the Cabinet post he’s held for four years.
The Department of Energy on Friday set a 2048 target to open a burial site for nuclear waste – a deadline 50 years later than originally planned.
The Silver State is about to get fracked. Houston-based Noble Energy Inc. is pursuing plans to drill for oil and natural gas across a 40,000-acre swath of public and private land near the city of Wells, about 400 miles north of Las Vegas.
As he pumped regular gasoline Friday at $2.99 per gallon, a price seemingly consigned to nostalgia just three months ago, Carlos Lovato was working on a mental shopping list for his newfound pocket money.
A national trade group has anointed a Nevada power plant the country’s safest fossil fuel-powered generating station.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – One of the National Security Administration’s three national laboratories is building regional testing centers around the country to field-test hardware for solar companies before their multimillion-dollar solar systems are installed in buildings.
