Energy
Gasoline is doing that dreaded creeping upward thing again. Between the 15th of February and March, each gallon pumped 50 more cents from our wallets. And, according to AAA spokesman Michael Geeser, another $4 mark is “very reachable” by Memorial Day.
A Denver company wants to build the nation’s largest wind farm and string a transmission line 725 miles to Boulder City.
Is any topic more confusing than power rates? Just look at NV Energy’s rate filing, submitted Tuesday with the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada and full of talk about DEAAs and EEPRs and EEIRs and BTERs and TREDs. But all of those acronyms taken together mean your power bill could drop by an average of 2.7 percent after the fall.
Las Vegas gasoline prices have risen 11 cents in a week and 18 cents in the past month, AAA said Monday.
As bird hunting season comes to an end and I reflect on all the wonderful hunting outings I’ve had this season and many seasons past, I’m reminded that Nevada’s world-class big game and bird hunting is often the envy of hunters around the country.
With its brilliant sunshine, whipping winds, geothermal hot spots and vast tracts of empty land, Nevada has long held promise as a potential center of green power.