[9][10] When the merger was announced, the companies stated that NV Energy would continue to be based in Las Vegas under its then-current name.

[19][20] The wind farm generates power for NV Energy customers in northern Nevada and the Las Vegas Valley.

The program was authorized by the state legislature (Senate Bill 145) and "integrated with a broad, years-old $295 million legislative mandate that includes solar incentives and other renewables.

[27] In April 2019, the Nevada legislature passed a bill that requires 50% of electricity in the state to be generated from renewable resources by 2030.

The projects will be developed by 8minute Solar Energy, EDFG Renewables, Quinbrook Infrastructure and Arevia Power, and are set to be completed by 2023.

This changed in late 2013, when the company completed a transmission line running from the Harry Allen plant north to Ely, Nevada.

The 500-kilovolt One Nevada Transmission Line (ONLine) is expected to improve electric service reliability, reduce costs and allow development of renewable energy sources, such as wind, solar and geothermal generating units, in remote parts of the state.

[40][41][42][43] In 2016 and 2018, Nevada voters considered a proposal to establish a competitive retail energy market in the state in place of the traditional one-utility model.

[44] Nevertheless, six major commercial customers left NV Energy's system during 2016 through 2018 and began buying power from other sources, exercising their right to do so under a 2001 state law.