Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak Thursday announced he’d elevated Public Utilities Commissioner Hayley Williamson to the three-member board’s chairwoman.
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SolarReserve, developer of the Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Plant, last week sued the Department of Energy and Tonopah Solar Energy, the plant’s operator.
According to the agreement, the Clark County School District would promise not to leave NV Energy in return for cost savings.
The Trump administration has rolled back a landmark Obama-era effort targeting coal-fired power plants and their climate-damaging pollution.
Conservationists are pushing back against plans to build the plant north along the road to Valley of the Fire State Park, 30 miles northeast of the Las Vegas.
Switch has filed a lawsuit against the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada, claiming the agency is retaliating against the data center company for leaving NV Energy.
The pledge by NV Energy to reduce costs and the withdrawal by Tenaska ends a precarious period for the utility monopoly after city leaders had considered joining a growing chorus of entities that have departed the electricity partner.
Natural gas utilities in Nevada could draw supply from renewable energy sources such as biogas under a measure introduced Wednesday in the Nevada Senate.
Gov. Steve Sisolak has tapped Reno City Councilman David Bobzien to lead the Nevada Department of Energy, the governor’s office announced Tuesday.
