Energy
CARSON CITY — Alternative fuel entrepreneur Peter Gunnerman’s clean burning, Nevada-made diesel product is the type of innovation lawmakers promoting job creation and alternative energy typically embrace.
Gasoline prices are soaring toward $4 a gallon, a threshold that some analysts say will damage the fragile economic recovery, maybe even in Las Vegas.
Gasoline is doing that dreaded creeping upward thing again. Between the 15th of February and March, each gallon pumped 50 more cents from our wallets. And, according to AAA spokesman Michael Geeser, another $4 mark is “very reachable” by Memorial Day.
A Denver company wants to build the nation’s largest wind farm and string a transmission line 725 miles to Boulder City.
Is any topic more confusing than power rates? Just look at NV Energy’s rate filing, submitted Tuesday with the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada and full of talk about DEAAs and EEPRs and EEIRs and BTERs and TREDs. But all of those acronyms taken together mean your power bill could drop by an average of 2.7 percent after the fall.