Southern Nevada utility customers will pay more for electricity if NV Energy is allowed to build its own new 706 megawatt natural gas power plant rather than continue to purchase energy from existing plants, an analysis released Tuesday shows.
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Southern Nevada residential, commercial and industrial customers of NV Energy will see their rates go down starting Thursday, with an overall decrease of 2.19 percent due in part to lower fuel costs.
State utility regulators on Wednesday approved an agreement worked out between the date storage company Switch and Nevada Power Co. to keep the company as a customer of the utility and avoid the potential of a rate hike for all rate payers.
Gov. Brian Sandoval announced Wednesday he has appointed Paul Thomsen as chairman of the Nevada Public Utilities Commission beginning Oct. 1.
A Canadian company on Wednesday announced an agreement with Tesla Motors Inc. to potentially provide lithium from a brine mine in central Nevada for the electric car maker’s battery factory.
A witness for MGM Resorts International is highly critical of Nevada Power Co. in testimony filed with the state Public Utilities Commission, saying that the gaming company intends to proceed with its application to leave the utility as a retail customer despite the potential of having to pay an “exit fee” of as much as $90 million.
The mighty sun appears to have hit the black hole of Nevada politics in the caustic dispute between NV Energy and the rooftop solar industry over the expansion of net metering.
Nevada’s popular rooftop-solar program will proceed under existing rates and rules for the short term even though a cap on net metering was hit last week, the state Public Utilities Commission decided Wednesday.
A member of the Nevada Public Utilities Commission on Tuesday filed a draft order in the net metering debate proposing to allow potential rooftop solar customers to install panels under the current rates and rules.
President Barack Obama came to Las Vegas Monday to talk about renewable energy, and he started with a bit of advice for the crowd of about 1,000 cheering attendees.
Sen. Harry Reid on Monday called on NV Energy to “get real” about rooftop solar or risk alienating customers and perhaps losing in court.
CARSON CITY — NV Energy says the 235-megawatt cap on net metering capacity was reached at 8 p.m. Thursday.
Nevada Public Utilities Commission staff has estimated that it would cost three major Las Vegas gaming companies nearly $131 million to “exit” Nevada Power Co. as customers and buy their electricity on the open market.
A coalition of rooftop-solar companies has submitted a proposal to the Nevada Public Utilities Commission asking the panel to adopt Nevada’s existing net metering rate as an interim tariff through Dec. 31.
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