In 2003, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) issued a rights-of-way for a natural gas-fired plant.
[2][3] In 2010, Toquop Energy informed the BLM that the plan was to proceed with a gas-fired plant.
[10][11] EWP planned to develop the project in two phases of 550 MW each with an anticipated completion in the first quarter of 2016.
[4] A February 2013 press release stated that Toquop Power Holdings negotiated an option to purchase as much as 7,240 acre-feet (about 2.4 billion US gallons (9.1×109 L)) of water at a cost of $12,000 (equivalent to $16,000 in 2023) per acre foot.
A July 2022 document by the Nevada Department of Wildlife (NDOW) states that on January 23, 2013 the NDOW received an application from the Toquop Power Holdings LLC for a 1,100 MW fossil fuel plant named Toquop Power Project.