[CPEO-BIF] Valmy Generating Station, Nevada

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

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.

...

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

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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