In what experts say is a first for Nevada, a data center developer is asking permission from state energy regulators to operate a new temporary natural gas power plant because NV Energy doesn't have the capacity to immediately serve it — potentially skirting parts of the state's regulatory process.

Gas is nearly $5 a gallon, and Attorney General Aaron Ford has seized on the price to criticize Gov. Joe Lombardo. Experts say such attacks could damage the incumbent.

Lake Tahoe's longtime power supplier, NV Energy, will cut off the region next year. The utility said that it wouldn't be able to continue this arrangement because of its "own resource needs." It has said data centers are driving "unprecedented" demand.

Six years after Nevada voters approved a constitutional amendment requiring in-state utilities to get half of their power from renewable sources by 2030, NV Energy says it is on track to miss those clean energy standards for the first time because of overwhelming demand from data centers.

Nevada's department of transportation and NV Energy were poised to spend a combined $138 million building electric vehicle charging stations across the state. Five years later, just $12 million has been spent.

On Tuesday, state energy regulators unanimously voted to accept a nearly $63 million settlement offer proposed by NV Energy after the utility inadvertently overcharged 43,000 customers over the last two decades.

Dwayne McClinton, director of the Governor's Office of Energy, is stepping down after three years in the role, he confirmed to The Nevada Independent Friday morning.

Nevada fell well short of its greenhouse gas emission-cutting goals in 2025, and it's poised to be much further behind when the bar raises again in 2030. 

In a settlement proposal filed Monday with state energy regulators, NV Energy proposed issuing a total of $63 million in refunds to customers it accidentally overcharged.

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.