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Hoover Dam's shrinking reservoir is pushing rural Nevada towns toward an energy cliff they never prepared for and now face alone as federal fixes arrive too slowly to stop the coming rate shock
1+ hour, 51+ min ago (559+ words) For nearly 90 years, Hoover Dam has quietly anchored the electric grid for rural Nevada—delivering reliable, low-cost hydropower to communities across the American West. That foundation is now under severe stress. Lake Mead is projected to fall below 1,035 feet within…...
Millions are counting on El Niño to save the Colorado River, but scientists say that bet may not pay off since a warmer world turns even record snowfall into little more than a "drop in the bucket"
5+ day, 1+ hour ago (695+ words) The strongest El Niño pattern in recorded history is bearing down on the American West. Yet the Colorado River—the primary water supply for 40 million people across seven states—remains near its historic low. For communities across the Southwest, a…...
A security fence thrown around 24,700 acres of Patagonian steppe near Puerto Madryn was meant to keep people away from 18 wind turbines, and the guanaco herds that walked in behind it have not walked back out
2+ week, 1+ day ago (822+ words) A wire fence runs across a high plateau in Chubut, Argentina, and it was put there for industrial safety. Behind it stand wind turbines, a gravel service road and almost nothing else. The fence was never meant to protect anything…...
Spread across three New Mexico counties after 20 years of waiting, 916 steel rotors are finally turning together, and the desert corridor carrying their power 550 miles west rewrites what a single wind farm can do to a grid
3+ week, 4+ day ago (448+ words) The desert between Vaughn and Carrizozo, New Mexico, does not look like the future of American power. Red earth, sparse grass, a horizon so flat and wide that the sky feels oversized. For most of the last century, this stretch…...
Decades of drought and overuse pushed the Colorado River toward a breaking point, and Washington is now forcing seven states to confront who gets less water
3+ week, 5+ day ago (549+ words) For more than a century, the Colorado River has been dammed, diverted, and drained to sustain the American West. Today, over 40 million people across seven states, 30 tribal nations, and Mexico rely on its flow. Yet prolonged megadrought, rising temperatures, and…...
A 61-year-old company drilled into Nevada’s hot rock before anyone cared, and now America’s geothermal comeback is attracting billions
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (756+ words) Beneath the American West, a massive heat source has been building for thousands of years. It holds enough energy to power entire cities. Yet for decades, the geothermal industry sat completely still. More than twenty years ago, one forward-thinking company…...
rPlus commissions 800 MW solar and battery energy complex in Utah for full commercial service
2+ mon, 1+ day ago (414+ words) rPlus Energy is headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah and specializes in large-scale solar, wind, battery storage, and pumped hydro projects. The primary focus of the company is the development, ownership, and operation of utility-scale renewable generation and electrical storage…...
Arizona's three major utilities launch joint nuclear siting study to address rising electricity demand
2+ mon, 6+ day ago (489+ words) Arizona’s three largest electric utilities are taking a coordinated step toward expanding the state’s nuclear capacity. APS, SRP, and TEP have jointly launched a preliminary siting study to identify potential locations for new nuclear generation in Arizona—a process already…...
Energy Dome and SRP sign agreement to deploy 19 MW CO2 battery storage system in Arizona with Google co-funding
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (703+ words) Energy Dome and Salt River Project (SRP) have announced an agreement to deploy a 19 MW, 10-hour CO2-based battery energy storage system at SRP’s Coronado Generating Station in St. Johns, Arizona. The project, expected to come online in 2029, marks a notable…...
EDP Renewables and SRP place 800 MWh energy storage facility into operation in Arizona
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (533+ words) EDP Renewables is recognized as a global leader in renewable energy and is reportedly the fourth largest wind energy producer. Its main focus is not just wind or solar generation, but it seeks to expand its clean energy portfolio through…...