Different weather, different equipment and a regulated market will keep Nevada from facing massive power outages that hit Texas during a winter freeze.
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Clark County will effectively pay 15,700 late power bills of Southern Nevadans who are struggling financially during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Public Utilities Commission approved its first natural disaster infrastructure plan Wednesday and a statewide usage fee to pay for it.
The Public Utilities Commission will vote Wednesday on whether the company can charge the statewide fee to pay for a natural disaster protection plan.
NV Energy is encouraging its customers to conserve energy because of high demand throughout the West but says it doesn’t anticipate blackouts due to higher power use.
Nevada’s power monopoly unintentionally became Nevada’s alarm clock Tuesday night.
When Henderson resident Karen Winterbottom checked her December bill from Southwest Gas, she was shocked to see the price had more than tripled compared to what she was charged just two months prior.
Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak Thursday announced he’d elevated Public Utilities Commissioner Hayley Williamson to the three-member board’s chairwoman.
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.
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.