Energy
The small town of Boulder City can claim big-time bragging rights when it comes to producing renewable energy.
Leading the nation will do that for a community.
A blue ribbon panel that examined the nation’s sputtering efforts to manage nuclear waste — including the long impasse over Yucca Mountain — recommended Thursday that the government use more carrots than sticks to find new burial ground for the deadliest radioactive material.
The average monthly single-family residential power bill could go from $140 to $155 on Jan. 1. But don’t hold us to that number. Don’t hold the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada to it, either. Or NV Energy, or the state Bureau of Consumer Protection, for that matter.
A Friday document from the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada shows that local power company NV Energy isn’t likely to get what it asked for in its general rate request.
