CARSON CITY — Draft orders posted Wednesday by state regulators would allow three major gaming companies to leave as customers of Nevada Power Co. and secure their own electricity supplies on the open market, but only upon payment collectively of $126.6 million in exit fees.
Las Vegas may be going solar. City leaders on Tuesday announced a three-year deal with NV Energy they hope will see every city-owned streetlight, park, community center, fire station and public building powered by renewable energy by 2017.
After a monthslong back-and-forth that included quiet threats to leave the grid, Las Vegas may soon reach a new utilities deal with NV Energy.
A new solar project, the first utility-scale facility to be owned and operated by NV Energy, is now sending electricity to Nellis Air Force Base.
Southern Nevadans will get a break on their monthly electricity bills beginning in January.
The battle over rooftop solar will be re-engaged this week as state regulators take up permanent rules for net metering that could dramatically alter the future of the industry in Nevada.
A new poll of Nevada residents ahead of next week’s state regulatory hearings on net metering shows strong support for the existing rooftop solar tariff and opposition to NV Energy’s proposal.
