The project by a Sweden-based energy company would have built more than 200 turbines, each the height of a skyscraper, along a 22-mile stretch of desert west of Searchlight.
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Representatives from Atlantis Casino Resort Spa in Reno met with the Public Utilities Commission Tuesday morning on its application to leave NV Energy.
The Nevada Public Utilities Commission has postponed discussions on whether the Las Vegas stadium can leave NV Energy.
The Raiders believe the stadium’s energy delivery services will begin around April and anticipate the stadium’s annual load will reach 50 megawatt hours per year with a peak load of 18 megawatts, according to documents filed with the PUC.
No lights have been turned on at the Las Vegas Sphere yet, but it already wants no power from NV Energy.
For the first time in its more than 100-year history, the three-member Public Utilities Commission of Nevada is entirely made up of women.
State is home to enough old mines and other former industrial sites to accommodate the new solar, wind and geothermal plants that would enable it to reach the 50 percent renewable energy standard, an analysis shows.
Nevada voters are favoring taking the first step toward requiring their energy providers to get at least half of their electricity from renewable sources.
Environmentalists are celebrating a court ruling that removed more than a million acres of federal land in Western states from an upcoming oil and gas auction in greater sage grouse habitat, including about 330,000 acres in Nevada.
