Two companies said they'll build the largest solar energy project of its kind in the world in southern Nevada. IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser.

The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, sprawling across roughly 5 square miles of federal land near the California-Nevada border, formally opens Thursday. It’s considered a key marker in ...

PRIMM, Nevada — A windy stretch of the Mojave Desert once roamed by tortoises and coyotes has been transformed by hundreds of thousands of mirrors into the largest solar power plant of its type ...

Huge Nevada solar is canceled. The 850 megawatt, 9,200-acre solar farm, ... A spokesperson for NV Energy said the company does not have a plan to buy power from Arevia, ...

Electric utility NV Energy has agreed to a 25-year agreement to buy Crescent Dunes' power for 13.5 cents per ... SolarReserve officials say they see big potential in concentrating solar power, ...

Sitting in the Nevada desert, the new Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project is covered with more than 10,000 mirrors, each the size of a small house, that track the sun throughout the day and focus ...

The 3,948 solar panels are being installed on about 5 acres of the DRI campus, south of the main buildings. The new panels should provide enough power to save $193,000 a year, said Peter Ross of DRI.

Clean-energy pledges made Thursday at the Clinton Global Initiative in New York include one from a company that's looking at Nevada as a possible site for a big solar-thermal power plant.

Since the start of the utility-scale buildout of public lands in the California and Nevada deserts just before 2010, ... Solar energy can have huge environmental impacts in the wrong locations.

In Nevada, the utility NV Energy has been working on community solar projects since 2019, and as of 2022, there were 2,000 customers signed up-- mostly low-income households.

In late December, the Nevada Public Utilities Commission, as is its right, changed the rules on how utilities operating in the state must treat solar net-metering customers. First, it said ...