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Northern Nevada steals limelight at clean-energy summit

The National Clean Energy Summit has been held in Las Vegas every year since Sen. Harry Reid launched it in 2008, but Northern Nevada stole much of the limelight at this year’s event with the $5 billion story of the day: Tesla’s decision to place its battery Gigafactory in the same Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center a biofuel plant will be built.

 
Huge solar-thermal plant opens near Nevada-California border

The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, sprawling across roughly 5 square miles of federal land near the California-Nevada border, formally opens Thursday. It’s considered a key marker in the emerging solar power industry.