Nevada regulators have approved NV Energy’s $100 million plan for a network of electric vehicle charging sites throughout the state.

Southwest Gas is facing regulatory barriers to increasing its renewable natural gas purchasing despite a goal set by the Nevada legislature.

Visitors to Nevada would be able to recharge their electric vehicles at iconic destinations as part of a proposed transportation electrification plan.

NV Energy applied to build a 235-mile transmission line across northern Nevada — a project that would complete a transmission triangle around the state.

FERC Chairman Richard Glick says "the time is right for the states, the region’s utilities and other key stakeholders" to form one or more Western RTOs.

The Public Utilities Commission of Nevada said a Western market would help alleviate supply shortfalls like those that occurred last August.

The Nevada governor’s office will soon be inviting interested parties to apply for a seat on a new task force that will advise the governor and lawmakers on bringing the state into an RTO. The Regional Transmission Coordination Task Force is the product of Senate Bill 448, a wide ranging energy bill that Gov. Steve …

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A spate of transmission projects is in the works to move renewables from remote regions of the West to urban load centers.

A Nevada bill calls on NV Energy to set ambitious targets for its EE programs and direct more energy-savings efforts to low-income customers.

Nevada’s natural gas utilities would be required to seek approval for long-term infrastructure plans under a bill introduced in the state legislature.