The Valmy power plant in Humboldt County houses the last coal-generated power facility in Nevada. (NV Energy) NV Energy's headquarters building is seen Thursday, July 16, 2020, in Las Vegas.

Conservationists and tribal leaders are suing the U.S. government to try to block construction of two geothermal plants in northern Nevada’s high desert that they say will destroy a sacred hot ...

As of 2013, there were 29 operating geothermal power plants in Nevada producing 518 megawatts of electricity. By 2016, plants producing another 834 megawatts are expected to come online ...

Nevada’s long-standing common sense argument against Yucca Mountain has been that the state doesn’t even have a nuclear plant, so it would be patently wrong to force it to be the nuke dump ...

For a rough idea of power capacity, consider Enel Green Power's Stillwater and Salt Wells plants in Churchill County. The two put out 65 megawatts of electricity to power 40,000 homes.

In a highly unusual move in a legal battle over a Nevada geothermal power plant and an endangered toad, the project’s developer is now asking a judge to allow it to scale back by 80% the ...

STILLWATER, Nev. (AP) — Nevada’s governor, the premier of Italy and the director of the U.S. Energy Department’s renewable energy labs on Tuesday formally dedicated the final piece… ...

Ormat Technologies, Inc. said that its 30 MW McGinness Hills geothermal power plant in Lander County, Nev. began commercial operations on July 26.

Nevadans can expect to see energy bills rise, gasoline costs creep upward and more as a result of President Trump’s bill, ...

Nevada Power Company, a subsidiary of Sierra Pacific Resources (NYSE: ... Nevada Power Company to Complete Construction of Former Duke Energy Power Plant in Nevada. Oct. 14, 2004.

Sustaining the spring, he said, is important for both the toad and the power plant. “We have to really have a symbiotic relationship with the reservoir,” Thomsen said.