page_title: Nevada Power Company
section_title: Power plants
hierarchical_section_title: Nevada Power Company / Power plants
caption_attribution_description: English: Aerial photograph of the Nevada Power Company's Reid Gardner Generating Station near Moapa, Nevada, USA.
context_page_description: Nevada Power Company was a Las Vegas-based company that produced, distributed, and sold electricity in the southern part of the state of Nevada. In 2005, it had over 700,000 electric customers in parts of three Nevada counties — a service area of more than 4,000 square miles. In 1998, Nevada Power merged with Nevada's other major utility, Sierra Pacific Resources. It continued as a subsidiary of Sierra Pacific until 2005, when the company changed its name to NV Energy.
context_section_description: In the early years, power was generated by the company.  However, in 1914 the company contracted to purchase power from other companies.  This practice continued until the 1950s when the company again started running power plants to provide a portion of its base supply.
  Current plants include:
  Base plants
  Wholly owned
  Harry Allen Generating Station (144 megawatts) natural gas fired unit, in 2006 a 100 kW solar photovoltaic system will be added. 484 megawatt combined-cycle natural gas facility being added.
  Edward W. Clark Generating Station (1084 megawatts - 10 units).  In January 2005, plans announced to shut down units 1, 2 and 3.  Opened in February 1956 was a 32 megawatt plant.  A 75 kW (3-25 kW arrays) high concentrating solar photovoltaic system was added in 2006. (located in Clark Country)
  Chuck Lenzie (1,102 megawatts - 4 natural gas fired units) located north of Las Vegas
  Walter M. Higgins Generating Station – 530 megawatt natural gas peaking plant located near Primm, Nevada
  Partial ownership
  Mohave Power Station (1,580 megawatts, 222 megawatts Nevada power's share, coal fired) (Shut down on December 31, 2005. Dismantling began in 2009.)
  Silverhawk Power Station (520 megawatt) natural gas fired located north of Las Vegas that is 25% co-owned by Southern Nevada Water Authority
  Reid Gardner Generating Station – (557 megawatt) coal fired plant located near Moapa, Nevada and 31% co-owned by the California Department of Water Resources
  Peaking plants
  Harry Allen (80 megawatts) in planning
  Sunrise/Sun Peak (150 megawatts) natural gas fired peaking plant located in Las Vegas
  Other notable sources
  Hoover Dam provides about 355 megawatts to the Nevada Power system.  Contrary to common belief, Las Vegas does not get most of its power from the dam.  It also does not get most of the power produced at the dam.  California and Arizona get most of the dam's generated power.
caption: Reid Gardner Generating Station
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