List of power stations in Nevada
This is a list of electricity-generating power stations in the U.S. state of Nevada, sorted by type and name. In 2019, Nevada had a total summer capacity of 11,938 MW through all of its power plants, and a net generation of 39,890 GWh.[2] The corresponding electrical energy generation mix was 6.9% coal, 64.6% natural gas, 12.1% solar, 9.8% geothermal, 5.6% hydroelectric, 0.8% wind, and 0.2% biomass.[1]
Small-scale solar including customer-owned photovoltaic panels delivered an additional net 680 GWh to Nevada's electricity grid in 2019. This was seven times smaller than the amount generated by the state's utility-scale PV plants.[1] Nevada ranks second in the nation as a producer of geothermal resources, and fourth as a producer of solar resources.[3]
Fossil-fuel power stations
Data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration serves as a general reference.[4]
Coal
Name | Location | Coordinates | Capacity (MW) |
Operator | Ref | Year Opened |
Scheduled Retirement |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
TS Power Plant | Eureka County | 40°44′48″N 116°31′42″W / 40.74667°N 116.52833°W | 242 | Nevada Gold Mines | [5][6] | 2008 | 2022[7] convert to ng |
North Valmy Generating Station | Humboldt County | 40°52′50″N 117°09′08″W / 40.88056°N 117.15222°W | 522 | NV Energy | [8] | 1981 (Unit 1) 1985 (Unit 2) |
2021 (Unit 1) 2023 (Unit 2) |
Reid Gardner Generating Station | Clark County | 36°39′22″N 114°37′58″W / 36.65611°N 114.63278°W | 557 | NV Energy | [9] | 1965 (Unit 1) 1968 (Unit 2) 1976 (Unit 3) 1983 (Unit 4) |
2014 (Unit 1) 2014 (Unit 2) 2014 (Unit 3) 2017 (Unit 4) Demolished in 2019 |
Cancelled facilities:
- Ely Energy Center: 1,500–2,500 MW
- White Pine Energy Station: 1,590 MW
Natural gas
Name | Location | Coordinates | Capacity (MW) |
Generation Type |
Operator | Ref | Year Opened |
Note |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Apex Generating Station | Clark County | 36°24′58″N 114°57′39″W / 36.4160°N 114.9609°W | 525 | 2x1 Combined Cycle | Southern California Public Power Authority | [10] | 2003 | |
Black Mountain (Nevada Cogen. Assoc. #2) |
Clark County | 36°13′31″N 114°52′42″W / 36.2253°N 114.8783°W | 85 | 3x1 Combined Cycle | Northern Star Generation | [11] | 1992 | |
Chuck Lenzie Generating Station | Clark County | 36°23′01″N 114°55′18″W / 36.3837°N 114.9218°W | 1,102 | 2x1 Combined Cycle (x2) | NV Energy | [12] | 2006 | |
Desert Star Energy Center | Clark County | 35°47′20″N 114°59′39″W / 35.7889°N 114.9942°W | 450 | 2x1 Combined Cycle | Sempra Energy | [13] | 2000 | |
Edward W. Clark Generating Station | Clark County | 36°05′15″N 115°03′03″W / 36.0875°N 115.0507°W | 1,103 | 2x1 Combined Cycle (x2), Simple Cycle (x13) |
NV Energy | [14] | 1973/ 1979-1982/ 1993-1994/ 2008 |
|
Fort Churchill Generating Station | Lyon County | 39°07′41″N 119°07′56″W / 39.1281°N 119.1322°W | 226 | Steam Turbine (x2) | NV Energy | [15] | 1968/1971 | |
Frank A. Tracy Generating Station | Storey County | 39°33′45″N 119°31′30″W / 39.5625°N 119.5250°W | 885 | 2x1 Combined Cycle, 1x1 Combined Cycle, Simple Cycle (x2), Steam Turbine |
NV Energy | [16] | 1974/1994/ 1996/2008 |
|
Garnet Valley (Nevada Cogen. Assoc. #1) |
Clark County | 36°20′36″N 114°55′15″W / 36.3432°N 114.9207°W | 90 | 3x1 Combined Cycle | Northern Star Generation | [17] | 1992 | |
Goodsprings Waste Heat Recovery Station | Clark County | 35°48′34″N 115°24′41″W / 35.8094°N 115.4114°W | 5.0 | ORC Generator | NV Energy | [18] | 2010 | waste heat from gas compressor station |
Harry Allen Generating Station | Clark County | 36°25′50″N 114°54′09″W / 36.4306°N 114.9024°W | 628 | 2x1 Combined Cycle, Simple Cycle (x2) |
NV Energy | [19] | 1995/2006/ 2011 |
|
Las Vegas Generating Station | Clark County | 36°13′55″N 115°07′20″W / 36.2319°N 115.1222°W | 272 | 2x1 Combined Cycle (x2), 1x1 Combined Cycle |
NV Energy | [20] | 1974/1994/ 1996/2008 |
|
Saguaro Power Plant | Clark County | 36°02′30″N 115°00′42″W / 36.0417°N 115.0117°W | 101 | 2x1 Combined Cycle | Saguaro Power | [21] | 1991 | |
Silverhawk Generating Station | Clark County | 36°24′28″N 114°57′38″W / 36.4078°N 114.9606°W | 520 | 2x1 Combined Cycle | NV Energy | [22] | 2004 | |
Sun Peak Generating Station | Clark County | 36°08′15″N 115°02′02″W / 36.1375°N 115.0339°W | 210 | Simple Cycle (x3) | NV Energy | [23] | 1991 | |
Walter M. Higgins Generating Station | Clark County | 35°36′50″N 115°21′22″W / 35.6139°N 115.3561°W | 530 | 2x1 Combined Cycle | NV Energy | [24] | 2004 |
Renewable power stations
Data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration serves as a general reference.[4]
Biomass
Name | Location | Coordinates | Capacity (MW) |
Generation Type |
Fuel | Operator | Ref | Year Opened |
Note |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Clark County Landfill Energy | Clark County | 36°21′31″N 114°52′29″W / 36.3587°N 114.8748°W | 12 | Simple Cycle (x2) | landfill gas | DCO Energy | [25] | 2012 | |
Waste Management Lockwood LFTGE | Washoe County | 39°29′36″N 119°37′13″W / 39.4933°N 119.6203°W | 3.2 | Reciprocating Engine (x2) | landfill gas | Waste Management | [26] | 2012 |
Geothermal
Hydroelectric
Name | Location | Coordinates | Capacity (MW) |
Operator | Ref | Year Opened |
Note |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Davis Dam | Clark County | 35°11′49″N 114°34′15″W / 35.1970°N 114.5707°W | 251 | United States Bureau of Reclamation | [40] | 1951 | electricity generated in Arizona |
Fleish | Washoe County | 39°17′06″N 119°35′36″W / 39.2851°N 119.5933°W | 2.5 | Truckee Meadows Water Authority | [41] | 1905 | |
Hoover Dam | Clark County | 36°00′56″N 114°44′17″W / 36.0155°N 114.7380°W | 2080[A] | United States Bureau of Reclamation | [42] | 1936-1938/ 1944/1961 |
electricity generation split equally with Arizona |
Lahontan Dam | Churchill County | 39°27′45″N 119°04′00″W / 39.4625°N 119.0667°W | 5.9 | Truckee-Carson Irrigation District | [43] | 1915/1989 | 4.0MW added 1989 |
Verdi | Washoe County | 39°18′45″N 119°35′06″W / 39.3125°N 119.5850°W | 2.3 | Truckee Meadows Water Authority | [41] | 1911 | |
Washoe (Mogul) | Washoe County | 39°18′08″N 119°33′37″W / 39.3022°N 119.5604°W | 1.9 | Truckee Meadows Water Authority | [41] | 1904 |
A Total generating capacity of the 17 turbines at Hoover dam was derated to 1,596 MW in June 2014 due to persistently low water storage levels and projected further declines.[44][45]
Solar photovoltaic
Name | Location | Type | Capacity (MWAC) |
Status | Ref |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aiya Solar | Moapa River Indian Reservation | Photovoltaic | 100[77] | Proposed | |
Battle Mountain Solar Project | Humboldt County, Nevada | Photovoltaic | 101[49] | Under Construction | |
California Ridge Solar Project | Clark County, Nevada | Photovoltaic | 200[57] | Proposed | |
Dodge Flat Solar Energy Center | Washoe County, Nevada | Photovoltaic | 200[49] | Proposed | |
Fish Springs Solar Energy Center | Douglas County, Nevada | Photovoltaic | 100[49] | Proposed | |
Harry Allen Solar Energy Center | Clark County, Nevada | Photovoltaic | 130[57] | Proposed | |
KWHB Solar Power Plant | Humboldt County, Nevada | Photovoltaic | 120[78] | Proposed | |
Lago Seco Solar Project | Clark County, Nevada | Photovoltaic | 120[57] | Proposed | |
Meadow Valley Solar Project | Clark County, Nevada | Photovoltaic | 200[57] | Proposed | |
Mesa Solar Energy Project | Clark County, Nevada | Photovoltaic | 200[57] | Proposed | |
Snow Mountain Solar Project | Clark County, Nevada | Photovoltaic | 100[57] | Proposed | |
Sunshine Valley Solar Project | Nye County, Nevada | Photovoltaic | 110[57] | Proposed | |
Toquop Energy Project | Lincoln County, Nevada | Photovoltaic | 100[79] | Proposed |
Solar thermal
Name | Location | Coordinates | Capacity (MWAC) |
Operator | PPA Recipient |
Ref | Year Completed |
Note |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project | Nye County, Nevada | 38°14′20″N 117°21′49″W / 38.2389°N 117.3636°W | 110 | Tonopah Solar Energy, LLC (subsidiary of SolarReserve) | NV Energy | [80][81] | 2015 | molten salt heat storage |
Nevada Solar One | Boulder City, Nevada | 35°47′59″N 114°58′54″W / 35.7998°N 114.9817°W | 64 | Acciona Solar Power | Nevada Power Company Sierra Pacific Resources |
[47] | 2007 |
Wind
Name | Location | Coordinates | Capacity (MW) |
Number of Turbines |
Operator | Ref | Year Opened |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Spring Valley Wind Farm | White Pine County | 39°06′15″N 114°29′32″W / 39.1042°N 114.4922°W | 152 | 66 | NV Energy | [82] | 2012 |
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