While coming large-scale lithium mines and their future employees will bring revenue and jobs to rural Nevada communities hungry for an economic jolt, they’ll also bring growing pains. Rural counties will be on the hook to come up with the money to fund critical infrastructure and other expenses — but, with proceeds from the mines not reaching the counties until production is underway, those same counties have limited ways to prepare or pay for expenses in advance.

With a Republican Congress preparing for massive spending cuts, Nevada’s solar industry is worried about its future.

A bill making its way through the Legislature asks state energy regulators to search for a way to mitigate power bill volatility when fuel prices spike by potentially requiring NV Energy to have more skin in the game.

Nevada’s active and aspiring lithium developers are undeterred by the swing in global lithium prices, with the state's only active mine seeking to double its size and its two fully-permitted projects also moving forward.

President Donald Trump’s Unleashing American Energy executive order has pulled the plug on funding for many Nevada initiatives, including one that would install electric vehicle charging stations on state highways.

Energy regulators have approved a plan by NV Energy to convert the utility's last coal plant to natural gas. But it's what's happened since the plant’s conversion was approved that has watchdogs and conservationists frustrated.

State agencies and groups have diligently applied for their share of various federal pots for renewable energy and energy efficiency improvement goals, from electric school buses to solar installations to electric appliance rebates.

As part of the Trump administration's push to expand U.S. energy production, federal officials will review and consider redrawing the boundaries of national monuments created under previous presidents to protect unique landscapes and cultural resources.

Hailed at the time as a breakthrough moment for clean energy, the Ivanpah plant has been struggling to compete with cheaper solar technologies.

Between 2016 and 2020, it is estimated utility infrastructure caused nearly one-fifth of all wildfires. Major utilities found responsible for some of them, such as California’s PG&E, were forced to file for bankruptcy after being unable to pay for damages caused by the fires, an outcome NV Energy is looking to avoid. Now, the utility is now asking state energy regulators to approve a $500 million wildfire self-insurance policy to protect it in case its equipment sparks a blaze.

After state energy regulators voted down a costly NV Energy proposal, lawmakers approved it two months later. Now NV Energy's Greenlink project is nearing construction. What happened?

Biden's administration is trying to strike a compromise between conservation and development interests to protect a declining bird species. However, it's doubtful the changes would survive under Trump.

A remote mountain range in southwestern Nevada will soon be home to Nevada’s third lithium mine.

It’s been nearly a decade since former Gov. Brian Sandoval announced the idea of turning Highway 95 into an “Electric Highway. A decade later, in the West, only Wyoming, Idaho and New Mexico have fewer charging ports than Nevada.

Nevada utility regulators have unanimously denied a request by NV Energy to raise the basic service charge for its Northern Nevada customers by 175 percent, instead awarding the utility just a fraction of its requested amount.

Greenlink West, a costly large-scale transmission line set to run between Las Vegas and Reno, received a final stamp of approval Monday from the Department of Interior.

In interviews, more than a dozen industry players, lawmakers and environmental advocates touted the law’s transformational potential and existing impact in Nevada. But the bureaucratic and corporate timelines of the IRA’s funding provisions move much slower than the election cycle. 

Nearly one-fifth of Nevada’s public lands could open up to utility-scale solar development under the Bureau of Land Management’s final Western Solar Plan — drawing the support of solar developers and the ire of conservationists.

Solar developers are seeking to construct a series of projects in Esmeralda County that, if built, would have a footprint nearly the size of Las Vegas.

The Colorado River supplies water to seven Western states, more than two dozen Native American tribes, and two states in Mexico.