Energy
Electric ratepayers are mad as hell.That was the message Tuesday as the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada held two consumer sessions at Cashman Convention Center. The sessions gathered consumer comment on an 11.5 percent rate increase power utility NV Energy has requested.
NV Energy said Friday that it will eliminate nearly 100 positions by next spring. The company sent layoff notices on Monday to 95 workers in its local meter-reading and field-support departments.
WASHINGTON — A solar power project outside Las Vegas that did not follow through on an offered federal loan guarantee is moving forward without government help, a company executive said this week.
The company developing a solar power plant in Clark County failed to close Friday on a federal loan guarantee that would help obtain financing for the project, according to the Department of Energy.
Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar stopped in Nevada on Tuesday to tout the job-generating power of renewable energy development, speaking at the Silver State North Project, a solar energy plant being built in the Ivanpah Valley, not far from where Interstate 15 crosses into California. The project is the first solar energy facility approved for construction on federal land in Nevada.
Renewable energy will save Nevada. At least, that’s the idea.