Owner Jared Fisher has opened his new Las Vegas Cyclery shop in Summerlin. The 9,785-square-foot ultragreen bike shop opened this month as a power plant and a shrine to energy efficiency.
Energy
The average monthly NV Energy power bill will drop from $142.05 to $138.26 next year. The decline comes from a drop in the cost of natural gas to fuel the company’s power plants, as well as cuts in the rate that covers energy-efficiency programs and the lower sales that result from conservation.
Sociologists, environmental historians, historical preservationists and others came to Las Vegas from all over the nation Saturday to tell stories about how they preserved a sense of place.
What good are clean-energy cars if the batteries that power them catch fire? That’s the problem a UNLV research team will try to unravel under a three-year, $2.5 million grant that Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced Wednesday.
After a year of hearings, the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada settled Tuesday on a smart-meter opt-out plan, but not without a late twist that could upend the agency’s decision. The commission voted to approve a one-time fee of $98.75 and a monthly charge of around $9 for local ratepayers who choose to leave NV Energy’s NV Energize smart-meter initiative.
The sun is shining more brightly on the Moapa River Indian Reservation north of Las Vegas. Los Angeles City Council members approved a $1.6 billion, 25-year pact Tuesday to purchase solar power from a company that will build nearly 1 million photovoltaic panels on tribal land.
A massive, slightly radioactive piece of steam generator dismantled from a nuclear power plant in Southern California is scheduled to roll very deliberately across rural Nevada next week on its way to a dump in Utah.
