Project No Project

SolarReserve’s Solar Thermal Power Plant Near Nellis AFB

Status: In progress with opposition

Type: Solar

Opposition: U.S. Air Force

Prospects: Unlikely

New Comstock Wind Energy Project

STATUS: In progress with opposition

OPPOSITION: Citizens

PROSPECTS: Indeterminate

Virginia Peak Wind Project

STATUS: In progress with opposition

OPPOSITION: Citizens

PROSPECTS: Indeterminate

Duke Energy Wind Project Searchlight

STATUS: In progress with opposition

OPPOSITION: Citizens

PROSPECTS: Indeterminate

Yucca Mountain Project , Nye County, NV

STATUS: In progress with opposition

OPPOSITION: Obama Administration; Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.), a staunch opponent of the Yucca project, called the Obama action "our most significant victory to date in our battle to protect Nevada from becoming the country's toxic wasteland."

PROSPECTS: Unlikely: Department of Energy (DOE) made clear that the controversial Yucca Mountain waste repository is "not an option."

Nevada Energy, Ely Energy Center

Type: Coal

STATUS: Postponed. According to Nevada Energy, the project is postponed due to increasing environmental and economic uncertainties surrounding development. The company says it will not move forward with construction of the plant until the technologies that will capture and store green house gases are commercially feasible.

OPPOSITION: Sierra Club, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevadans for Clean Affordable Reliable Energy, Nevada Conservation League, Progressive Leadership Alliance, Western Resource Advocates, Citizen Alert, Southwest Energy Efficiency Project, Nevada Clean Energy Campaign

PROSPECTS: Unlikely

LS Power, White Pine Energy Station

Type: Coal

STATUS: Indefinitely postponed

OPPOSITION: Nevada Sierra Club, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), Nevada Clean Energy Campaign; Nevada Conservation League, Western Resource Advocates, Bristlecone Alliance, Sevier Citizens for Clean Air and Water, Sierra Club, Center for Biological Diversity, Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada, Great Basin Resource Watch, Post Carbon Salt Lake, Nevada Wildlife Federation, Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment, Western Resource Advocates and the National Parks Conservation Association.

PROSPECTS: Unlikely

Sempra Energy – Gerlach Plant

Type: Coal

STATUS: Cancelled March 2006

OPPOSITION: Nevada Clean Energy Campaign

PROSPECTS: Cancelled

Sithe Global, Toquop Power Plant

Type: Coal

STATUS: In progress, with opposition. Sithe Global Power is the only company continuing to pursue plans for a coal-fired power plant in Nevada. NV Energy and LS Power both indefinitely postponed their coal-fired power plants projects due to increasing environmental and economic uncertainties surrounding development.

OPPOSITION: Senator Harry Reid (D-NV); Stop Toquop; Nevadans for Clean Affordable Reliable Energy; Sierra Club; Nevada Conservation League; Friends of Nevada Wilderness; Nevada Clean Energy Campaign; and Western Resource Advocates.

PROSPECTS: Indeterminate.