2009 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 22:02:06 -0800 (PST)
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Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Valmy Generating Station, Nevada
 
NV Energy confirms interest in building coal plant at Valmy

By JOHN G. EDWARDS
LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL (NV)
January 16, 2009

NV Energy Inc., which has endured criticism from environmentalists over development of the $5 billion Ely Energy Center, confirmed Thursday it is interested in building another coal-fired power plant similar in size to the 1,500-megawatt power plant at Ely.

David Sims, director of project development for the utility company, acknowledged that the Public Utilities Commission directed NV Energy to update information on the possibility of building another coal-fired plant at Valmy Generating Station, 130 miles northwest of Reno.

...

Valmy is an existing brownfield site for coal-fired generation and dates back to the 1980s while the Ely center is a greenfield site on undeveloped land.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.lvrj.com/business/37701214.html

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Lenny Siegel
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