“How do you take full advantage of all the innovation out there? How do you bring it online? How do you deploy it in a way that reduces costs, cleans up the electricity sector and gives consumers more options?” These are the questions that will be explored.
Four prominent governors will take the stage together at the National Clean Energy Summit in Las Vegas. Organizers announced Friday that Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval will be joined by ...
A trade case pursuing solar product tariffs is moving forward after a commission found that imports had injured the domestic solar cell industry, a move that opponents say ...
Valley Electric Association, a Pahrump-based utility, announced today it has sold its 230-kilovolt transmission system to GridLiance, a Dallas-based operator of transmission systems, for ...
A trade commission is expected to decide next week whether to proceed with a case that could lead to tariffs on solar cells. The tariffs would make solar panels more expensive and ...
Construction on transmission lines to connect energy generated from wind farms in southern Wyoming to southwestern states is planned to begin in 2019. Wyoming Tribune Eagle reported today that the TransWest Express Transmission Project is ...
A nuclear waste summit in Las Vegas brought Nevada’s opposition to a proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository up against rural counties' calls for hearing the science behind the project. Yucca Mountain is in Nye County, which stands with eight other rural counties in calling for the licensing process to ...
Building a house with no prior experience is tough enough, but imagine constructing one knowing that you would soon have to split it into multiple parts and transport it out of state. That is just part of the challenge that 30 UNLV students face as they prepare for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon 2017 competition next month. The winning school takes home $300,000. ...
The once-mothballed proposal for a Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository looks to be heading for a revival and will be a part of discussions at this week’s Radwaste Summit in Las Vegas. Robert J. Halstead, executive director of ...
On its 2014 Infrastructure Report Card, the American Society of Civil Engineers gave Nevada a C- overall. But this year, ASCE representatives told legislators that the state is “on the right track,” noting improvements in highways, the renewable energy portfolio and use of drone technology. How healthy are Nevada’s bones?
The garbage-to-fuel idea of "Back to the Future" will soon become a reality when a biorefinery — the first of its kind in the United States — is constructed at the Reno-Tahoe Industrial Center
The Senate confirmed President Donald Trump's choice to be the Energy Department's No. 2 official, even as a Republican senator vowed to block the Trump administration's plans to revive the long-stalled ...
Nevada representatives are pushing amendments to a House appropriations bill to nix $120 million in funding to revive the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository project. ...
A request for $120 million to revive the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository project is going unheard for the moment in the Senate as an appropriations bill moves forward without the funding. ...
