The Proposed Ely Energy Center

The proposed Ely Energy Center consists of a coal-fired power complex in White Pine County, located in eastern Nevada, and an approximately 250-mile transmission line that for the first time would provide an electric connection between the northern and southern parts of the state. The power facility, which would be the largest energy development project in the state since Hoover Dam, will serve customers of Sierra Pacific Power Company and Nevada Power Company in northern and in southern Nevada, respectively. more...

Tracy Combined Cycle Plant

A new electric generating plant that Sierra Pacific Power Company is building in northern Nevada will reduce the state’s reliance on volatile energy markets and increase the utility’s generating capacity by nearly 50 percent. The 514-megawatt, Tracy Combined Cycle Plant, located adjacent to the utility’s Tracy Generating Station east of Reno, is expected to start producing electricity for northern Nevada and the Lake Tahoe area of California by June 2008. more...

Reid Gardner Station

Nevada Power is requesting a right–of–way grant from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) for the proposed ash storage facility and evaporation ponds expansion at Reid Gardner.   more...