![An Inside Look at a State-of-the-Art Training Facility [PODCAST]](https://www.powermag.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/power-podcast-art-final.jpeg)
Royce Peters, senior technical coordinator for the Carpenters International Training Center (ITC) in Las Vegas, Nevada, was a guest on The POWER Podcast. The ITC is the largest and most-comprehensive…
Nevada
NV Energy plans to retire a 254-MW coal-fired unit in a power-constrained region of Nevada at the end of 2021, four years ahead of schedule. The company will instead purchase…
The midterm elections yielded mixed results for power-related matters across the U.S. Voters in Arizona shot down a measure that would have expanded the state’s renewable portfolio standard (RPS) to…
Two planned solar projects in Nevada would be the first in that state to include battery storage, part of an increasing trend toward such projects to help mitigate issues with…
RENO, Nev. (May 22, 2018) — Ormat Technologies Inc. announced that one of its wholly-owned subsidiaries that indirectly owns the 26-MW Tungsten Mountain Geothermal power plant entered into a partnership…
The more I review the Yucca Mountain political boondoggle, the more I am convinced the stalemate will have to be resolved through a grassroots public campaign. At the outset of…
![Net Metering and Time-Variant Rates Drive Solar Power and Energy Storage Growth [PODCAST]](https://www.powermag.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/power-podcast-art-final.jpeg)
Nevada law has included net metering provisions for more than 20 years. Net metering is an arrangement that allows energy generated by a customer’s leased or purchased solar system to…
While 29 states and the District of Columbia currently have Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS)—goals for power producers to provide a certain amount of power from renewable sources by a specific date—a…
Spent nuclear fuel has continued to accumulate at sites across the nation, paralyzed by a government deadlock on a nuclear waste management strategy formally established 35 years ago. Can recent…
Citing its backing for the long-stalled Yucca Mountain permanent spent nuclear waste repository in Nevada, the Trump administration has asked a federal court to reject a petition filed by Texas…