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</div><div><div class="headline-container" style="margin-top: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h1 class="headline h1" style="margin: 10px; padding: 0px; position: relative; line-height: 31px;">How Utilities Are Trying to Slow Down Rooftop Solar</h1></div><div id="utm_campaign" style="margin-top: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><div class="article-body body js-expandable clearfix js-listicle-body js-update-url" data-url="https://www.ecowatch.com/rooftop-solar-2457456703.html" data-headline="How Utilities Are Trying to Slow Down Rooftop Solar" data-elid="2457456703" style="margin: 10px; line-height: 24px;"><div class="article-description body-description" style="margin-bottom: 10px;">By David PomerantzThe New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/08/climate/rooftop-solar-panels-tax-credits-utility-companies-lobbying.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;">reported</a> earlier this month about how utilities around the country, and their trade group the Edison Electric Institute (EEI), have worked to weaken rooftop <a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/tag/solar" style="text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;">solar</a> policies in an attempt to stave off the threat to their business model.The article featured some of <a href="http://www.energyandpolicy.org/" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;">Energy and Policy Institute's</a> reporting, including <a href="http://www.utilitysecrets.org/brian-mccormack-doe-rooftop-solar/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;">our expose</a> of Brian McCormack, former EEI executive and current Chief of Staff to Energy Secretary <a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/tag/rick-perry" style="text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;">Rick Perry</a>, for his role in attacking rooftop solar while at EEI, as well as our uncovering of <a href="http://www.utilitysecrets.org/edison-electric-institute-state-policy-network-attack-rooftop-solar/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;">Florida utilities' deceptive</a> anti-solar ballot initiative in that state last year.Some important aspects of the story of utilities' efforts did not make it into the Times coverage though:Upset About EEI? There's a Good Chance You're Funding ThemThe Times exposed the central role played by the Edison Electric Institute in driving the utility industry's anti-rooftop solar strategy:At a January 2016 board meeting of the Edison institute, attended by chief executives of the country's largest utilities, Thomas R. Kuhn, the group's president, counseled against complacency."Years, ago, I think a lot of people said, 'That's not going to come to our area,'" he said, according to a recording of his remarks made available by a participant. "And now we see it in each and every state," he said."EEI is happy to come to any state at any time," he added. "We have two dozen states we are working on."If you're angry about EEI, here's some bad news for you: there's a high chance that you're paying the salaries of the trade association's executives.Our report <a href="http://www.energyandpolicy.org/utility-ratepayers-fund-the-edison-electric-institute/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;">Paying for Politics</a> detailed how the nation's investor-owned electric utility customers are subsidizing EEI via their bills every month. Investor-owned utilities embed their EEI membership dues into rates, forcing their customers to pay for a policy agenda constructed primarily for the benefit of utilities' shareholders, not their customers. Since most customers have no choice about their utility, there's not much they can do about it.Despite Efforts, Utilities Cannot Stop Distributed Solar EnergyAnd here's some better news: The Times story focused on Indiana, where utilities scored a victory when they lobbied to pass a law that would unravel net metering, the policy that dictates how much a utility must pay solar owners for the excess electricity they sell back to the grid. But another state reveals how the utilities' strategy can, and often will, backfire.In Nevada, utility <a href="http://www.utilitydive.com/news/lessons-from-nevadas-rooftop-solar-victory-consumer-demand-and-collaborat/446518/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;">NV Energy succeeded in 2015</a> at lobbying regulators to reduce net metering payments. The industry perceived it as a victory that other utilities could learn from—in January 2017, EEI and NV Energy announced that Tony Sanchez, an NV Energy senior vice-president who helped lead the utility's efforts in the net metering debates, was taking on a "<a href="http://www.eei.org/resourcesandmedia/newsroom/Pages/Press%20Releases/NV%20Energy%20and%20EEI%20Announce%20Key%20Industry%20Leadership%20Role%20for%20Tony%20Sanchez.aspx" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;">key loaned executive</a>" role with EEI.But while the utility industry celebrated what they thought was a big win for NV Energy, Nevadans became furious at the lost solar jobs and the utility's influence at slowing down the growth of a technology that people from across the political spectrum love. The utility's victory was short-lived. In June 2017, the legislature unanimously passed, and Republican <a href="https://lasvegassun.com/news/2017/jun/15/dark-years-solar-sandoval-signs-bill-nevada-indust/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;">Gov. Brian Sandoval signed</a>, a bill to restore the old net metering rates.Not only that, but last November, the state's voters passed by a large margin a ballot initiative to <a href="http://www.rgj.com/story/news/politics/2016/11/09/energy-choice-initiative-passes-nevada/93528566/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;">break up NV Energy's monopoly entirely</a>—political observers in the state perceive the amendment's success in part as a referendum on NV Energy's unpopularity in the wake of the company's attacks on solar.The Nevada story should serve as a warning for utilities: In places where they try to attack popular pro-solar policies, a popular backlash risks weakening their political capital with regulators and legislators.In the long run, utilities have even bigger problems than their political fortunes. Even where they win short-term victories on policies like net metering, the combination of rooftop solar panels plus batteries, which are getting cheaper faster than anyone expected, will enable more and more customers to buy less and less electricity from their utilities. <a href="https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2017/7/7/15927250/utilities-rooftop-solar-batteries" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;">Dave Roberts of Vox</a> recently authored a piece on the topic aptly headlined: Utilities fighting against rooftop solar are only hastening their own doom.As Roberts writes, quoting a recent McKinsey study:"In a low-cost storage environment," McKinsey writes, the rate structures utilities are monkeying around with "are unlikely to be effective at mitigating load losses." In other words, customers are still going to keep generating more of their own power.
The Times piece was important to expose how utilities are coming after solar. But it's worth remembering that in the long run, they won't stop distributed <a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/renewable-energy/" style="text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;">renewable energy</a>, and will be better served learning to co-exist with it than to keep fighting it.</div></div></div><div>=</div><div class="headline-container" style="margin-top: 10px; color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 17.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h1 class="headline h1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 18px; font-weight: 500; position: relative; line-height: 22px; font-family: Georgia;">Casino Magnate Wants to Kill Bill That Would Make Nevada a Renewable Energy Powerhouse</h1></div><div id="utm_campaign" style="margin-top: 10px; color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 17.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="article-body body js-expandable sm-mb-2 md-mb-4 js-update-url selectionShareable" data-url="https://www.ecowatch.com/nevada-renewable-energy-sheldon-adelson-2421523447.html" data-headline="Casino Magnate Wants to Kill Bill That Would Make Nevada a Renewable Energy Powerhouse" data-elid="2421523447" style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: 17.6px;"><div class="article-description" style="margin-bottom: 10px;">By David PomerantzThe Nevada Assembly passed a bill Wednesday that would dramatically increase the growth of <a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/renewable-energy/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(82, 149, 70); outline: none; word-wrap: break-word;">renewable energy</a> in the state, but Sheldon Adelson, the casino magnate and major donor to <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/trump-watch/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(82, 149, 70); outline: none; word-wrap: break-word;">Donald Trump</a>, is attempting to prevent the bill from becoming law.The bill, AB 206, would ensure that Nevada gets 80 percent of its electricity from renewable sources by 2040. AB 206 passed the assembly with bipartisan support by a margin of 30 to 12, but it must now pass the Senate and be signed by Gov. Brian Sandoval.Adelson owns the Las Vegas Sands casino giant, and is known in national political circles for the massive amounts of money he has plowed into Republican coffers; he <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/gop-kingmaker-sheldon-adelson-continues-snub-donald-trump-n635636" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(82, 149, 70); outline: none; word-wrap: break-word;">spent</a> $100 million in the 2012 election cycle, and then <a href="http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/313967-trump-met-with-mega-donor-sheldon-adelson-transition-says" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(82, 149, 70); outline: none; word-wrap: break-word;">donated</a> $35 million to the super PAC that supported Donald Trump's general election campaign last year, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/19/us/politics/trump-inauguration-sheldon-adelson-fundraising.html" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(82, 149, 70); outline: none; word-wrap: break-word;">plus another $5 million</a> to Trump's inauguration.Given Adelson's support for conservative politicians, clean energy supporters considered it a happy coup in 2016 when the Sands Corporation threw money behind a ballot initiative that would allow electric customers to defect from the monopoly utility NV Energy.</div></div></div>berkshire hathaway buffet=BS
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http://dailycaller.com/2016/05/01/warren-buffett-tells-greenie-crusaders-to-buzz-off-at-berkshire-annual-meeting/


Warren Buffett and shareholders with Berkshire Hathaway <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/the-latest-buffett-arrives-for-berkshire-hathaway-meeting/2016/04/30/cb606d42-0ed8-11e6-bc53-db634ca94a2a_story.html">overwhelmingly rejected a resolution Saturday</a> asking the holding company to write reports on the risks so-called man-made global warming causes to insurance companies.

The rejection came despite a strong campaign push on behalf of the

resolution from NASA climate scientist James Hansen, Illinois State

University professor and insurance expert Jim Jones, and activists from

environmentalist group Nebraskans for Peace.

Tens of thousands of environmentalists associated with Nebraskans for

Peace, as well as many others, spent their Saturday listening to the

hours-long annual meeting in Omaha, which was composed mostly of

discussions between Buffett and Vice Chairman Charlie Munger over

business minutia.

Buffett eventually got down to brass tacks on the climate change

report, telling activists at the meeting he is standing firm on his

decision to nix the climate change report resolution. He said he

believes global warming is an important issue but ultimately doesn’t

think it poses a threat to Berkshire’s insurance businesses....Buffett also defended NV Energy, an energy group he founded that <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2016/01/28/liberal-billionaires-musk-and-buffet-go-to-war-over-solar-subsidies/">won a battle</a> over Elon Musk’s SolarCity following Nevada’s decision to introduce sharp cutbacks to its net metering program in December.

If the billionaire’s decision to nix the climate resolution was a

poke in the collective eye of all climate justice warriors, then surely

remarks defending earlier decision to reduce solar panel subsidies will

be seen as an all out assault on the environment.

Net metering policies <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2016/04/09/is-capitalism-set-to-carve-up-floridas-highly-subsidized-solar-industry/">force utility companies</a>

in Nevada, which Berkshire Hathaway owns, to purchase electricity

produced by rooftop solar panels at triple retail rates, which makes it

difficult for Nevada’s utility company to the cover the costs of a fixed

electrical grid.

Buffett, for his part, said at the annual meeting that people with

rooftop solar power systems were allowed to sell power to the utility at

exaggerated rates, which, he said, had the effect of forcing other

ratepayers to subsidize the niche group of people leasing solar panels.

In a similar move, Berkshire Hathaway-owned PacifiCorp, an Oregon electrical utility company, managed to <a href="http://www.politico.com/tipsheets/morning-energy/2016/03/morning-energy-wolff-213509#ixzz44UdcARGO" target="_blank">notch out a victory</a> when it successfully lobbied to change the state’s <a href="http://www.oregonlaws.org/ors/757.300">net metering policies</a>.

The company is now able to ratchet down the amount of green electricity

it is required to purchase from rooftop solar companies.<a href="http://ecowatch.com/2016/02/22/warren-buffett-war-solar-west/">
</a><a href="http://ecowatch.com/2016/02/22/warren-buffett-war-solar-west/">http://ecowatch.com/2016/02/22/warren-buffett-war-solar-west/</a>


There are <a href="http://ecowatch.com/?s=solar">solar</a> battles

blazing all across the West right now, as utilities anchored to fossil

fuel power plants strain to avoid the inevitable spread of solar across

their areas of operation.

Not a month goes by without a <a href="http://ecowatch.com/?s=war+on+solar">story of some assault on solar-friendly policies</a> by utilities or by the utility commissions that are often in their pocket.

<figure id="attachment_378015" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="max-width: 760px"><figcaption id="figcaption_attachment_378015" class="wp-caption-text">Not a month goes by without a story of some assault on solar-friendly policies by utilities. Photo credit: Snake River Alliance</figcaption></figure>

During the holidays at the end of 2015, it was <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/williampentland/2015/12/23/nevada-overhauls-net-metering-rules-despite-objections-from-distributed-solar-industry/#8f021cc1897e" target="_blank">Nevada’s utter dismembering</a>

of its net metering policy. Nevada is—or was—one of 42 states that

offered net metering, a program through which customers with solar

arrays are compensated for the energy they produce on their rooftops or

in small installations connected to the electric grid.

NV Energy Inc. unleashed this full frontal attack on the program that—in one quick vote of three unelected commissioners—<a href="http://blogs.edf.org/energyexchange/2016/02/11/good-policy-gone-bad-how-nevada-killed-jobs-and-clean-energy-competition/" target="_blank">pulled the rug out from under</a> 17,000

solar customers and eviscerated at least 8,000 solar jobs. And the

Public Utilities Commission of Nevada (PUCN) was happy to oblige.

Nevada has the <a href="http://www.reviewjournal.com/business/report-nevada-leads-solar-jobs-capita" target="_blank">highest number of solar jobs per capita</a> in the U.S., but for how long?

As Nevada’s PUCN invited this “<a href="http://cleantechnica.com/2016/01/18/black-hole-forms-solar-net-metering-nevada/" target="blank">solar black hole</a>” over one of the nation’s sunniest states, many pointed out how <a href="http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/berkshire-hathaway-skeptical-about-distributed-energy" target="blank">NV Energy fought tooth and nail</a> against the successful net metering plan and ultimately secured its demise.

NV Energy, the state’s largest utility, is a subsidiary of <a href="http://ecowatch.com/?s=Buffett">Warren Buffett</a>’s Berkshire Hathaway Energy. This net metering battle was high profile.

Many have pitched it as a <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-solar-power-buffett-vs-musk/" target="blank">Buffett vs. Musk showdown</a>, as NV Energy’s demands would prove to <a href="http://ecowatch.com/2016/01/30/musk-buffett-solar-fight/">cripple Solar City’s business</a> in the state, which was dependent on a consistent net metering program.
vs NV buffett  http://ecowatch.com/2016/01/29/elon-musk-china-solar/<a href="http://ecowatch.com/2016/01/30/musk-buffett-solar-fight/">http://ecowatch.com/2016/01/30/musk-buffett-solar-fight/</a>

NV Energy has announced that it will close three of its four coal-fired units at the Reid Gardner power plant in southern Nevada by the end of this year, and the fourth by 2019. The Sierra Club has worked for years with the Moapa Band of Paiutes to retire heavily polluting Reid Gardner, which sits next door to the Moapa Paiute reservation. Soon the tribe will build a 200-megawatt solar array -- the first commercial solar project on Native American lands -- from which the city of Los Angeles will be purchasing enough energy to power over 110,000 homes.  <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://action.sierraclub.org/site/R?i=gYyA3q_lhrlUjToXnWd6oA" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(103, 133, 178); outline: none; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Read about this major victory for the climate, clean air, and renewable energy.</a> ---<p style="margin: 1em 0px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.200000762939453px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">One of the dirtiest <a href="http://ecowatch.com/news/energy-news/coal-mining-pollution/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(67, 146, 65); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-transition: color 0.2s linear; transition: color 0.2s linear; background-color: transparent;">coal-fired</a> power plants in the U.S. will soon shut down, thanks to a well-known billionaire and previously passed legislation.<p style="margin: 1em 0px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.200000762939453px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">As part of its acquisition of Nevada’s largest utility, NV Energy, Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway also inherited Reid Gardner, a 557-megawatt (MW), coal-fired energy plant near Las Vegas. The massive structure, which has <a href="http://www.environmentalintegrity.org/documents/MercuryReport-Final11-16-11.pdf" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(67, 146, 65); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-transition: color 0.2s linear; transition: color 0.2s linear; background-color: transparent;">a history of recognition</a> among the country’s dirtiest carbon polluters, won’t be a lasting legacy of NV’s profile.<p style="margin: 1em 0px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.200000762939453px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">NV plans on shutting down three of Reid Gardner’s units that generate about 300 MW by the end of this year, according to the <a href="http://www.reviewjournal.com/business/energy/nv-energy-proposes-shutting-three-four-reid-gardner-coal-fired-units" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(67, 146, 65); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-transition: color 0.2s linear; transition: color 0.2s linear; background-color: transparent;">Las Vegas Review-Journal</a>. The remaining 257 MW would be closed by the end of 2017. In all, the company wants to end all of its coal operations by 2019.<p style="margin: 1em 0px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.200000762939453px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">As <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/05/warren-buffett-is-shutting-down-one-of-the-uss-dirtiest-power-plants/361783/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(67, 146, 65); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-transition: color 0.2s linear; transition: color 0.2s linear; background-color: transparent;">The Atlantic</a> points out, the utility’s decision is tied to state legislation passed last year requiring the company to <a href="http://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/77th2013/Bills/SB/SB123_EN.pdf" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(67, 146, 65); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-transition: color 0.2s linear; transition: color 0.2s linear; background-color: transparent;">eliminate 800 MW of coal energy</a> in favor of <a href="http://ecowatch.com/business/renewables/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(67, 146, 65); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-transition: color 0.2s linear; transition: color 0.2s linear; background-color: transparent;">renewables</a>. That passage was influenced by years of fighting for cleaner air by the Moapa Band of Paiutes, a Native American community that lives near Reid Gardner.<p style="margin: 1em 0px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.200000762939453px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The state utilities commission has 180 days to approve the plan, which would also include a new solar project totaling 200 MW of clean energy on the Moapa Band of Paiutes reservation. The land is about 70,000 acres and has enough to space to also support the 1.5 gigawatts of renewable energy the Moapa Band of Paiute wants to construct through <a href="http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2013/08/nevada-tribe-venture-to-build-1-5-gigawatts-of-renewable-power" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(67, 146, 65); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-transition: color 0.2s linear; transition: color 0.2s linear; background-color: transparent;">a joint venture</a>announced last year with Terrible Herbst Inc. and Stronghold Engineering Inc.<p style="margin: 1em 0px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.200000762939453px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“This is going to provide a strong economic base for the tribe,” Sandy King, director of renewable-energy project development at Stronghold, told Renewable Energy World.<p style="margin: 1em 0px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.200000762939453px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Last fall, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced <a href="http://ecowatch.com/2013/09/20/epa-limits-greenhouse-gas-emissions-power-plants/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(67, 146, 65); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-transition: color 0.2s linear; transition: color 0.2s linear; background-color: transparent;">a limit of 1,100 pounds of carbon dioxide per megawatt-hour</a> for new coal plants.

<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NV_Energy">http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NV_Energy</a>

In November 2009, Sierra Pacific Resources changed its name to NV Energy. Sierra Pacific Resources had been created in 1999 from the merger of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Nevada_Power" title="Nevada Power" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Nevada Power</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Sierra_Pacific_Power" title="Sierra Pacific Power" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Sierra Pacific Power</a> and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Sierra_Pacific_Resources" title="Sierra Pacific Resources" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Sierra Pacific Resources</a>.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NV_Energy#cite_note-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[2]</a>

NV Energy trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol (NVE). Until becoming NV Energy, Sierra Pacific Resources traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol (SRP).

NV Energy is the owner and operator of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Reid_Gardner_Station" title="Reid Gardner Station" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Reid Gardner Station</a>, a coal-fired power station near Moapa, Nevada and is the proponent of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Ely_Energy_Center,Phase_I" title="Ely Energy Center, Phase I" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Ely Energy Center, Phase I</a> and a hypothetical expansion known as <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Ely_Energy_Center,Phase_II" title="Ely Energy Center, Phase II" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Ely Energy Center, Phase II</a>.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NV_Energy#cite_note-2" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[3]</a>

In its 2007 annual report, Sierra Pacific Resources stated that "NPC's generation capacity consists of a combination of 29 gas, oil and coal generating units with a combined summer capacity of 3,276 MWs ... In 2007, NPC generated approximately 63% of its total system."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NV_Energy#cite_note-SRP_2007_AR-3" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[4]</a>

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NV Energy has been a corporate funder of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Legislative_Exchange_Council" title="American Legislative Exchange Council" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">American Legislative Exchange Council</a> (ALEC).<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NV_Energy#cite_note-4" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[5]</a>See <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/ALEC_Corporations" title="ALEC Corporations" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">ALEC Corporations</a> for more.

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In its 2007 annual report Nevada Power stated that coal used in the Reid Gardner power station "originates from various mines in the Utah and Colorado coal fields and is delivered to the station via the Union Pacific Railroad. NV Energy has long-term contracts with<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Arch_Coal" title="Arch Coal" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Arch Coal</a> (expires 2011) and Andalex Resources, Inc. (expires 2010). Long-term contracts were expected to be executed in 2008 by Nevada Power with Co-op Mining Co. (to expire in 2012) and Bowie Resources (to expire in 2012). These contracts were expected to represent 100% of Reid Gardner’s projected requirements for 2008, 80% for 2009, 57% for 2010, 40% for 2011 and 27% for 2012."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NV_Energy#cite_note-SRP_2007_AR-3" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[4]</a>

NV Energy also owns 11.3% the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Navajo_Generating_Station" title="Navajo Generating Station" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Navajo Generating Station</a>.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NV_Energy#cite_note-5" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[6]</a> In its annual report SRP, the operator of the Navajo Station, states that coal for the plant is "obtained from surface mining operations conducted by <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Peabody_Coal_Company" title="Peabody Coal Company" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Peabody Coal Company</a> (Peabody) on portions of the Black Mesa in Arizona within the Navajo and Hopi Indian tribes (the Tribes) reservations. The Navajo supply contract expires June 2011, with an option provided to NPC to extend for an additional 15 years requirements."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NV_Energy#cite_note-SRP_2007_AR-3" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[4]</a>

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NV Energy owned 6 coal-fired generators at two locations in 2005, with 1,133 MW of capacity. Here is a list of NV Energy's coal power plants:<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NV_Energy#cite_note-EIA-6" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[7]</a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NV_Energy#cite_note-7" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[8]</a>

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In 2006, Sierra Pacific's 2 coal-fired power plants emitted 9.6 million tons of CO2 and 9,000 tons of SO2.

NV Energy's <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Ely_Energy_Center,_Phase_I" title="Ely Energy Center, Phase I" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Ely Energy Center, Phase I</a> was placed on hold on February 9, 2009. According to CEO Michael Yackira, the plant could be delayed for up to 10 years, or until <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Carbon_capture_and_storage" title="Carbon capture and storage" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">carbon capture and storage</a> technologies are available.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NV_Energy#cite_note-8" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[9]</a>

The 2,500–megawatt plant was to have been the largest energy development project in the state’s history since the Hoover Dam was completed in 1936."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NV_Energy#cite_note-SRP_Factsheet-9" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[10]</a>

While the power station was to have been coal-fired, the company sought to sell its credentials on the grounds that it would facilitate futuregrowth of solar and wind power. "The Ely Energy Center also includes a 250–mile transmission intertie that will, for the first time link northern and southern Nevada. This link will open a path for renewable energy to be economically transported to where it is needed the most. Specifically, it will allow northern Nevada’s abundant geothermal energy to be sent south while southern Nevada's solar resources can be shared with the north. It will provide transmission access for wind plants proposed in northern and eastern Nevada that would be otherwise economically impossible to develop," it states on its website.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NV_Energy#cite_note-SRP_Factsheet-9" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[10]</a>

In April 2013, NV Energy proposed a state amendment calling for the accelerated closing of three of the four units at Reid Gardner by 2014, and the fourth in 2017. In its place the company would construct or acquire and own 1,000 megawatts of natural gas during the next five years and 1,000 more megawatts in the next 10 years, as well as acquire or contract 600 megawatts of renewable energy in Nevada during the next five years, and own or operate 25 percent of that. Under the plan, the utility would not divest from its share of ownership in the Navajo and Valmy coal plants until 2017 and 2025, respectively.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NV_Energy#cite_note-10" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[11]</a>

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On April 28, 2011 NV Energy moved a step closer toward expanding its controversial landfill for toxic coal-ash waste at its power plant near Moapa, Nevada.

Southern Nevada Health District's board directed its staff to proceed with finalizing conditions for a permit it approved in October 2011 to expand the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Reid_Gardner_Station" title="Reid Gardner Station" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Reid Gardner Station</a>'s landfill, paving the way for 35 more years of operating the coal-fired plant. Moapa Band of Paiutes and the Sierra Club opposed the expansion, noting that it would likely lead to an increase in local water contamination.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NV_Energy#cite_note-11" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[12]</a>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Michael_W._Yackira&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Michael W. Yackira (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Michael W. Yackira</a>, President and Chief Executive Officer, Sierra Pacific Resources</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=E._Kevin_Bethel&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="E. Kevin Bethel (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">E. Kevin Bethel</a>, Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer, SPR</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jeffrey_L._Ceccarelli&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jeffrey L. Ceccarelli (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Jeffrey L. Ceccarelli</a> Corporate Senior Vice President, Service Delivery & Operations, SPR; President, Sierra Pacific Power Company;</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Roberto_R._Denis&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Roberto R. Denis (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Roberto R. Denis</a> Corporate Senior Vice President, Energy Supply, SPR</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Paul_J._Kaleta&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Paul J. Kaleta (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Paul J. Kaleta</a> Corporate Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, SPR</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=William_D._Rogers&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="William D. Rogers (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">William D. Rogers</a> Corporate Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, SPR</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mary_O._Simmons&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mary O. Simmons (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Mary O. Simmons</a> Vice President, External Affairs, SPPC</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tony_F._Sanchez_III&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Tony F. Sanchez III (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Tony F. Sanchez III</a>, Corporate Senior Vice President, Public Policy and External Affairs SPR</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Robert_E._Stewart&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Robert E. Stewart (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Robert E. Stewart</a>, Vice President, Marketing, SPR</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Stephen_R._Wood&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Stephen R. Wood (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Stephen R. Wood</a>, Corporate Senior Vice President, Administration, SPR</li>

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<li id="cite_note-businessweek-0" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">↑ <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NV_Energy#cite_ref-businessweek_0-0" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">1.0</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NV_Energy#cite_ref-businessweek_0-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">1.1</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/financials/financials.asp?symbol=SRP" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Sierra Pacific Resources</a>, BusinessWeek Company Insight Center, accessed Aug. 2008.</li>

<li id="cite_note-1" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NV_Energy#cite_ref-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://staging.nevadapower.com/company/projects/" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"About Us"</a>, NV Energy, accessed February 2009.</li>

<li id="cite_note-2" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NV_Energy#cite_ref-2" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://staging.nevadapower.com/company/projects/" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Projects"</a>, NV Energy website, accessed February 2009.</li>

<li id="cite_note-SRP_2007_AR-3" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">↑ <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NV_Energy#cite_ref-SRP_2007_AR_3-0" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">4.0</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NV_Energy#cite_ref-SRP_2007_AR_3-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">4.1</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NV_Energy#cite_ref-SRP_2007_AR_3-2" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">4.2</a> Sierra Pacific Resources, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://media.corporate-ir.net/media_files/irol/11/117698/SRP_AR_2007and10K.pdf" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAE5JREFUeF5lykEKgDAMBdF/+17Es/QkiosiCBURXIzJooZohmweX6gwmkCeI+Oqc2C1FnvnF2ejlQYU0tLK2NjY6f/l8V12Ti7uhFFgDj19b58EwXuqkAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Sierra Pacific Resources 2007 Annual Report</a>, Sierra Pacific Resources, page 20.</li>

<li id="cite_note-4" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NV_Energy#cite_ref-4" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">↑</a> Clearinghouse on Environmental Advocacy and Research, project of the Environmental Working Group, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://wayback.archive.org/web/jsp/Interstitial.jsp?seconds=5&date=975772800000&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwyl.ewg.org%2FFoxProCGI.acgi%24run_module%3Fdata_code%3DCLEAR%26extra_code%3Dgroup_code%3DORG197%26the_type%3DGroup%26&target=http%3A%2F%2Fweb.archive.org%2Fweb%2F200012021600%2Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fwyl.ewg.org%2FFoxProCGI.acgi%24run_module%3Fdata_code%3DCLEAR%26extra_code%3Dgroup_code%3DORG197%26the_type%3DGroup%26" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Information of the American Legislative Exchange Council</a>, archived organizational profile, archived by Wayback Machine December 2, 2000, accessed August 19, 2011</li>

<li id="cite_note-5" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NV_Energy#cite_ref-5" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.srpnet.com/about/stations/navajo.aspx" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Navajo Generating Station,</a> SRP website, accessed October 2009.</li>

<li id="cite_note-EIA-6" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NV_Energy#cite_ref-EIA_6-0" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">↑</a> Environmental Integrity Project, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.dirtykilowatts.org/Dirty_Kilowatts2007.pdf" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAE5JREFUeF5lykEKgDAMBdF/+17Es/QkiosiCBURXIzJooZohmweX6gwmkCeI+Oqc2C1FnvnF2ejlQYU0tLK2NjY6f/l8V12Ti7uhFFgDj19b58EwXuqkAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Dirty Kilowatts: America’s Most Polluting Power Plants</a>, July 2007.</li>

<li id="cite_note-7" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NV_Energy#cite_ref-7" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://carma.org/dig" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Dig Deeper</a>, Carbon Monitoring for Action database, accessed Aug. 2008.</li>

<li id="cite_note-8" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NV_Energy#cite_ref-8" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2009/02/10/ap6032265.html" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"NV Energy postponing big coal-fired plant near Ely,"</a> Associated Press, February 10, 2009.</li>

<li id="cite_note-SRP_Factsheet-9" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">↑ <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NV_Energy#cite_ref-SRP_Factsheet_9-0" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">10.0</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NV_Energy#cite_ref-SRP_Factsheet_9-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">10.1</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nevadapower.com/services/brochures_arch/ely_energy_infosheet.pdf" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAE5JREFUeF5lykEKgDAMBdF/+17Es/QkiosiCBURXIzJooZohmweX6gwmkCeI+Oqc2C1FnvnF2ejlQYU0tLK2NjY6f/l8V12Ti7uhFFgDj19b58EwXuqkAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Proposed Ely Energy Center</a>, Sierra Pacific corporate fact sheet, accessed January 2008.</li>

<li id="cite_note-10" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NV_Energy#cite_ref-10" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">↑</a> Andrew Doughman, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2013/apr/02/nv-energy-decommission-coal-plants-shift-gas-and-r/#ixzz2Q0fNBrkI" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"NV Energy to decommission coal plants, shift to gas and renewables,"</a> Las Vegas Sun, April 2, 2013.</li>

<li id="cite_note-11" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NV_Energy#cite_ref-11" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.lvrj.com/news/controversial-coal-ash-landfill-expansion-near-moapa-moves-forward-120925374.html" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Controversial coal-ash landfill expansion near Moapa moves forward"</a> Keith Rogers, Las Vegas Review Journal, April 28, 2011.</li>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Nevada_and_coal" title="Nevada and coal" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Nevada and coal</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/United_States_and_coal" title="United States and coal" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">United States and coal</a></li>

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<table class="datadisplay_new" style=" border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><thead><tr><th style=" text-align: left;">Candidate</th><th style=" text-align: right;">Amount</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Heller, Dean (R-NV)</td><td nowrap=""><img src="/a7894ba3-1b67-5cd1-bbd4-384a98dfcdef.gif"/> $23,250</td></tr><tr><td>Berkley, Shelley (D-NV)</td><td nowrap=""><img src="/0af2245d-de3f-5afc-8d5c-009fd2c83aee.gif"/> $16,000</td></tr><tr><td>Amodei, Mark (R-NV)</td><td nowrap=""><img src="/a37392c8-9e30-5c1a-b14f-91a1cbb39755.gif"/> $14,000</td></tr><tr><td>Horsford, Steven (D-NV)</td><td nowrap=""><img src="/209d100c-7cb4-5ff5-8bca-8956859bac22.gif"/> $11,250</td></tr><tr><td>Heck, Joe (R-NV)</td><td nowrap=""><img src="/bd7d2bfb-e623-5a32-a944-0145d54e1b3f.gif"/> $8,500</td></tr></tbody></table>

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