Nevada Power Company is a Las Vegas-based company that produces, distributes and sells electricity in southern part of the U.S. state of Nevada. As of 2005, Nevada Power had over 700,000 electric customers in parts of three Nevada counties creating a service area of more than 4,000 square miles (10,000 km2). The company is currently a subsidiary of NV Energy.
As of April 2009, NV Energy the parent company, has 10 natural gas fired generating plants, two coal-fired generating plants and is co-developing a wind generating facility, a geothermal facility and a waste heat recovery plant. With its purchase power agreements, NV Energy – on a per-customer basis – leads the nation in the use of solar and geothermal renewable resources.
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