Recent closures of a California oil refinery — and plans to shutter another in the near future — have some experts warning of potential fuel shortages and price spikes in Nevada and other Western states that depend on the Golden State. 

In a rare move that could delay progress on NV Energy’s large-scale transmission line planned for the Highway 50 corridor, the federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has ordered its Nevada office to address some environmental groups’ protests against the project.

Two lawsuits were filed in separate district courts in recent days, alleging that the commission's formula change is illegal.

Arguments that NV Energy’s move to implement a daily demand rate for customers violates state law were rebuffed Tuesday by state energy regulators. Now, some groups are considering legal action.

Six months after an investigation by state energy regulators found NV Energy overcharged certain customers millions of dollars for more than two decades, the utility on Thursday indicated the scope of the overcharging was much larger than it previously indicated.

Democratic members of Congress slammed the proposal as dangerous and unnecessary.

A little-noticed bill that passed in the eleventh hour of this year’s legislative session could open the door for Nevada’s largest natural gas utility to overhaul how its rates are designed — potentially allowing rates to automatically go up without direct approval from state regulators and shifting more financial risks to customers.   

The massive, Las Vegas-sized Esmeralda 7 solar project planned for Esmeralda County is still viable but is moving forward with a different approach, the Department of Interior confirmed Tuesday to The Nevada Independent.

A massive solar project proposed to be built in rural Esmeralda County with a footprint roughly the size of Las Vegas appears to have been scrapped by the Bureau of Land Management.

Three years after the federal government listed a tiny Nevada toad on the endangered species list, a geothermal company seeking to develop a project near the toad’s only known habitat in Northern Nevada is suing the government over the listing.

While the Trump administration's emerging ownership of private companies is not without precedent, economic experts fear future market impacts if the government doesn't eventually disentangle itself from these companies.

The U.S. government will take a 5 percent stake directly in the Thacker Pass project and a 5 percent stake in project developer Lithium Americas in exchange for releasing the initial $435 million of a $2.23 billion loan.

As executive orders stall renewable energy development and spark uncertainty in the energy sector, the federal government has twice delayed when it will issue a final decision on Greenlink North, a controversial high-voltage transmission line that would bisect central Nevada.

NV Energy will issue an additional $32.6 million in refunds to customers it has overcharged since 2017, the company announced Thursday in a filing with state energy regulators.

Starting in April, all Southern Nevada NV Energy customers, including those who have solar, will have a new billing structure that will charge ratepayers for the maximum amount of electricity used at a single point during the day rather than the total amount of electricity consumed over a day.

This summer’s scourge of heat-related deaths in Nevada mirrors a nationwide trend, with recent studies showing that extreme summertime heat is now the leading cause of weather-related deaths.

The developer of Nevada's second lithium mine and a private landowner have reached a settlement following a flurry of lawsuits and appeals over water rights the company says are critical to the construction of the mine.

More than $150 million in federal funding has been clawed back from the Nevada Clean Energy Fund, the state’s “green bank” that facilitates financing for clean energy projects in the state.

NV Energy has sufficiently proved to state energy regulators that it needs additional wildfire insurance, but the utility has so far failed to convince them that asking its customers to shell out hundreds of millions of dollars is the best way to increase its coverage.

Increasing power bills and significant cutbacks in Nevada’s burgeoning solar industry are among some of the consequences that clean energy experts say to expect from the recent passage of President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act.