This is the current status of the great Clean Energy Transition in the Las Vegas Metro Area and nearby communities in Southern Nevada.
🤓 EV Uptake, Best-Selling EVs,
🚑 Police Cars, Firetrucks & Ambulances
2 BUILDINGS
🏫 Schools, Colleges & Universities
3 BIG TECH
🟦 Clark County
🟦 North Las Vegas
🟦 Henderson
✈️ Nellis & Creech Air Force Bases
👽 Area 51
🔋 Utility-Scale Batteries
7 Made it: 100% SOLAR
🖐🏼 Moapa Band of Southern Paiute
✨ Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas
1 The Transition to Electric Vehicles in Southern Nevada
🟢 Light-Duty passenger EVs like SUVs, trucks, and cars
🟢 Heavy-Duty EV fleets like police cars, firetrucks, ambulances, public buses, school buses, delivery trucks, and garbage trucks
STATUS of Southern Nevada's
transition to electric
CARS, TRUCKS and SUVs
39,000+ All-Electric Vehicles ride the roads of Southern Nevada, out of 1,780,000 total
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3.1% of all private and commercial vehicles registered in Clark County (Southern Nevada) are All-Electric
This does not count hybrid vehicles because hybrids* run on gasoline.
All-Electric Vehicles (also known as Battery Electric Vehicles) are powered only by rechargeable batteries. They have no engine, burn no fuel, and need no tailpipe because they spew no exhaust.
* Hybrid Vehicles spew carbon dioxide like any fossil fuel-burning vehicle. The word "hybrid" refers to a braking motor that helps gasoline engines get better gas mileage.
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The Top Ten Best-Selling All-Electric Vehicles in Southern Nevada
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13.7% of all vehicles sold in Clark County, NV in 2026 were All-Electric
These are Southern Nevada's Best-Selling All-Electric Vehicles in 2026:
1. Tesla Model Y SUV ⭐️
2. Tesla Model 3 sedan ⭐️
3. Chevrolet Equinox EV crossover
4. Hyundai Ionic 5 crossover
5. Honda Prologue crossover
6. Ford Mustang Mach-E crossover ⭐️
7. Ford F-150 Lightning pickup truck
8. Kia EV6 crossover and EV9 SUV
9. Chevrolet Blazer EV crossover
10. Rivian R1S SUV
⭐️ = "Recommended" 2026 EV models by Consumer Reports™ (a buyers' advocacy nonprofit)
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STATUS of Southern Nevada's
transition to
EV CHARGING STATIONS
🟣 Southern Nevada is home to 614 public fast-charging ports, available at over 100 EV fast-charging sites and stations.
🟣 EV Charging at big-brand gas stations and mini-marts is starting to become a normal thing in metro Las Vegas. Watch for this trend grow.
🟣 Southern Nevada providers continue to deploy enough Fast-Charging Stations to serve the growing number of people driving EVs.
You can quickly charge your EV at over a hundred fuel stations, grocery stores, and big-box stores across the Las Vegas Valley
Fast is 15 to 30 minutes for an 80% full charge
(00) is the locations number of charging ports
Fuel Stations
Terrible's /Chevron 15+ stations (2-4)
Shell 45+ stations (4-6)
7-11 12+ stations (2-4)
Grocery Stores
WinCo Foods 2 stores (4)
Smith's Market 8 stores (6)
Big Box Stores
Target 10 stores (6-8)
Walmart 15 stores (6-10)
Shell stations are rapidly expanding their Shell Recharge network, now at 45+ metro Las Vegas locations. Shell charging stations are clustered in the Southwest Las Vegas Valley (S. Durango, S. Fort Apache) and Henderson (S. Eastern Ave ) areas.
Chevron stations partnered with local mini-mart Terrible's (Terrible Herbst), are using the EVgo fast-charging network.
7-Eleven is rapidly expanding its 7Charge network in metro Las Vegas. Dozens more 7Charge stations are in the local permitting process. Expect to see similar expansion of EV charging at area Walmart stores.
More please! The east side of the Valley and North Las Vegas need more EV charging stations to keep up with increasing numbers of EV drivers in those areas.
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⚡️ On a quick charge-up in Las Vegas, you can have peace of mind driving to nearby towns and cities.
"Nearby" in Southern Nevada can mean 100 miles or more. Along the way, you have the option of topping off your battery at national brand fast charge stations including Tesla Supercharger, Electrify America, and EVGo.
EV Fast-Charging Stations for Road Trips Outside Las Vegas
[for EVs with a 300+ mile battery range] These fast-charge stations are well-maintained and reliable, taking 15 to 30 minutes for an 80% charge. Check their status with Google Maps before you travel.
(00) – number of charging ports at this location
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Barstow, CA
141 miles SW of Southern Highlands
on I-15
Southern Highlands Terrible's (4)
Jean Terrible's Super Hub (64)
Primm Primm Valley Resort (42)
Baker, CA Shell Ultra Mart (96)
Barstow, CA S (##)
Terrible's Super Hub in Jean, NV is the largest EV charging station in Nevada
___from Las Vegas to__________________
St.George, UT
117 miles NW of North Las Vegas
on I-15
N. Las Vegas Craig Losee Plaza (12)
Sam's Club on Craig (8)
Moapa Valley Arco Station (12)
Mesquite Casablanca Resort (12)
Eureka Resort (8)
Walmart (8)
St.George, UT Dixie Center (12)
Bluff Street (12)
___from Las Vegas to__________________
Kingman, AZ
92 miles SE of Henderson
on I-11 > US 93
Henderson Boulder Hwy (12)
Railroad Pass Travel Center (12)
Boulder City Hoover Lodge (12)
White Hills, AZ Shell Station (16)
Kingman, AZ Devine (32)
Beale St (10)
Smith's (5)
___from Las Vegas to___________________
Laughlin, NV
92 miles S of Henderson
on US 95 > NV163
Henderson Target at Galleria (8)
Railroad Pass Travel Center (12)
Boulder City Dam Lodge (12)
Searchlight no FAST chargers
Laughlin River Lodge (12)
Aquarius Resort (4)
____from Las Vegas to____________________
Furnace Creek, CA
105 miles W of Blue Diamond
on NV 160 > CA 190
Blue Diamond Smith's Market (12)
Target (8)
Pahrump Burger King (8)
Furnace Creek, CA no FAST chargers
Death Valley resorts have overnight charging
___from Las Vegas to_______________
Tonopah, NV
198 miles NW of Centennial Hills
on US 95
Centennial Hills Target Sky Point (8)
Centennial Center (8)
Skye Canyon Smith's Market (16)
Indian Springs No FAST Chargers
Beatty Stagecoach Hotel (8)
Tonopah Fire Department (8)
_____from Las Vegas to___________________
Ely, NV
243 miles N of North Las Vegas
on US 93 > NV318
N. Las Vegas Craig Losee Plaza (12)
Sam's Club on Craig (8)
LV Speedway 7-11 (2)
Apex Love's ( )
Alamo no FAST chargers
Ely Ridley's Market (16)
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STATUS of Southern Nevada's
transition to
ELECTRIC POLICE CARS
Each of Southern Nevada's 10 police departments are using at least one EV in their fleet. They're using electric police cruisers, electric motorcycles, electric bikes, and electric scooters.
👮♂️👮♂️ Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (Metro)
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1.9% of Metro's vehicle fleet are fully electric (26 EVs of roughly 1,350 police vehicles)
⚠️ Toward a mostly Hybrid fleet, and still burning the atmosphere
Metro has been replacing its fleet of gasoline-fueled Ford Police Interceptor cruisers with the model's new gasoline-fueled hybrid version. In 2026, 700 of its cruisers are gasoline-fueled, and 600 are gasoline-fueled hybrid.
[The average hybrid vehicle burns about half the gasoline as it would without its regenerative motor, but with hundreds of police cars on the road at a time, that's still a lot of gas]
Current EV Count – Las Vegas Metropolitan Police
🏆 10 Heavy Duty Electric Vehicles: Not long after someone blew up a Tesla Cybertruck in 2025 in front of a Las Vegas hotel, Billionaire Horowitz of Silicon Valley donated 10 Tesla Cyebertrucks to Metro. The Cybertrucks were tactically upgraded by Upfit. One of these sci-fi-looking beasts is assigned to Metro's SWAT team.
🏆 9 Electric Cars and Trucks: Metro also uses all-electric Ford F-150 Lightning and Mustang Mach-E vehicles for administrative duties.
🏆 7 Electric Motorcycles: Metro operates a fleet of seven ZeroMMX police motorcycles (vintage 2011) made by Zero Motorcycles, Inc. These "silent patrol" e-motorcycles serve on the Las Vegas Strip and Las Vegas Convention Center.
💰 City of Las Vegas's Capital Improvement Fund is the main funding source for Metro's fleet replacements, gas and electric.
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Clark County School District (CCSD) Police
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00% of CCSD Police's 2025 vehicle fleet are electric (00 EVs out of 000 total)
CCSD Police patrol high school and middle school campuses on Pedego® Patroller Edition electric bikes. Nevada's Board of Education granted the department ## electric bikes from Nevada school safety funds in 2024.
School administrators adopted the electric bikes to give officers relief from Las Vegas' longer, heat seasons. On e-bikes, officers reach campus locations with less heat-exposure than on their old mountain bikes, and without the expense of gas-engine motorcycles.
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Boulder City Police
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22% of Boulder City's policing fleet are electric (5 EVs out of 23 total).
Boulder City Police replaced five of the department's 23 aging gas cars with electric police cruisers. The purchase: two each of the Tesla Model Y and Tesla Model 3, and one Ford Mustang Mach-E. The City purchased the vehicles with funding from the American Recovery Plan Act.
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Las Vegas City Marshal
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66% of Las Vegas City Marshal's 2026 vehicle fleet is fully electric.
(40 EVs out of 60 total)
The Las Vegas City Marshals Office is currently using two e-motorcycles, 18 e-bikes, and 20 e-scooters to patrol all city properties.
E-Patrol Cars: None. Las Vegas City Marshals have been replacing their aging-out gasoline cars with gas-hybrid Ford Police Interceptor utility vehicles.
City Marshal's Office says it's patrol cars can not go fully electric because Las Vegas's police precincts have inadequate charging infrastructure. This problem is in stark contrast to the City of Las Vegas's perfectly adequate system of 80+ municipal charging sites.
E-Motorcycles: City Marshals uses two e-motorcycles in the agency's total of six. Officers silently approach graffiti artists and copper wire thieves on the Zero DSP ("Dual Sport Police," 2016 model) made by Zero Motorcycles, Inc. of Scott's Valley, CA.
E-Bikes: You’ll see City Marshals riding Recon Interceptor e-bikes by Recon Power Bikes and Pedego Patroller by at community events, on trails, and in the big parks like Lorenzi or Floyd Lamb.
E-Scooters: Las Vegas City Marshals use 20 T3 Patroller e-stand-up vehicles (ESVs), made by T3 Motion Inc. ( ) Marshals assigned to these police-grade scooters like how easily they can navigate around folks at the Fremont Street pedestrian mall.
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When will your town see electric police vehicles?
Some of these Southern Nevada police jurisdictions have EVs on their radar, and some are starting to build their EV fleets:
🚔 Clark County Marshal
🚔 Henderson Police
🚔 North Las Vegas Police
🚔 Moapa Valley Police
🚔 Mesquite Police
🚔 University Police Services
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STATUS of Southern Nevada's
transition to
ELECTRIC FIRE TRUCKS
Clark County Fire
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0% of Clark County Fire's vehicle fleet is electric
One EV in a total fleet of 000
Clark County Fire's Rosenbauer RTX is the first electric fire truck operating in Nevada. The all-electric "Engine 18" began daily duty on the Las Vegas Strip in 2023, working the big resorts and major events like Formula One.
Metro Las Vegas's other three fire departments have yet to acquire their first electric firetrucks and support vehicles:
🚒 Las Vegas Fire & Rescue
🚒 North Las Vegas Fire Department
🚒 Henderson Fire Department
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STATUS of Southern Nevada's
transition to
ELECTRIC AMBULANCES
🚑 Global Medical Response (GMR)
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0% of GMR's Southern Nevada ambulance fleet is electric
( Zero EVs in a Southern Nevada fleet of 80 )
Paramedic company AMR (American Medical Response) and Medic West (subsidiaries of Global Medical Response) have not yet started using electric ambulances in the Las Vegas metro region. Community Ambulance has also yet to try an electric ambulance.
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STATUS of Southern Nevada's
transition to ELECTRIC
TRANSIT & SCHOOL BUSES
Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada (RTC)
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0.5% of RTC's bus & para transit fleet is electric
Four electric vehicles in a fleet of 760
RTC operates four battery-electric buses. Made by New Flyer of America, these Xcelsior Charge NG™ electric buses travel up to 254 miles (a full day of service) on one charge.
RTC received the buses in 2023 with grants from the Federal Transit Administration and NV Energy's Transportation Electrification Plan.
⚠️ OMG the Doomers are right
In 2025, RTC Commissioners made a decision to purchase, on behalf of local taxpayers,
◉ 46 new methane gas transit buses
◉ 10 new diesel double-decker tourist buses
Each of these new climate monsters spew thousands of tons of carbon emissions every year of their 15 year service life.
STATUS: RTC's public bus fleet continues to be one of Metro Area Las Vegas's biggest producers of climate-damaging emissions.
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Clark County School District (CCSD)
⚠️ 0.1% of CCSD's school buses are electric
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Two electric buses in a fleet of 1,925
In 2023, some lucky CCSD students got two electric school buses on their route to school. Thomas Built's Jouley Gen 2® buses were a hopeful gift from NV Energy, the Nevada Division of Environmental Protection, and the Clark County Division of Air Quality.
🤯 Awful News: Having been treated to these highly-rated electric school buses, the CCSD's board of directors continues to replace old diesel school busses only with new diesel school busses. The cost of CCSD's diesel fuel is set by international politics, and Clark County residents pay for it.
🥺 Worse, 000,000 Southern Nevada school kids are, in the late 2020s, still breathing fumes from their toxic diesel-fueled school buses.
STATUS: CCSD's school bus fleet is one of Metro Area Las Vegas's greatest spewers of atmosphere-heating emissions.
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STATUS of Southern Nevada's
transition to ELECTRIC
DELIVERY VEHICLES
"e-delivery vehicles" ( eDVs )
Heavy-duty Electric Delivery Vehicles (eDVs) in the Las Vegas region perform well during the hot season, when the metro heat island gets even hotter than the surrounding Mojave Desert.
eDV technology is robust, and fleet operators know to reduce thermal wear of their battery systems by 1) scheduling delivery routes earlier and later in the day, and 2) charging the fleet at night or in sun-protected charging depots.
Amazon
100% Amazon's Southern Nevada delivery fleet is electric
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277 eDVs in a local fleet of 227 in 2026
Amazon dominates the electric delivery vehicle (EDV) sector in metro Las Vegas
Ever intentional, Amazon in 2025 is showing how fast a large company can amass a huge fleet of electric delivery vehicles. Amazon's local fleet of Rivian EDV-700/500 electric delivery vehicles are ubiquitous in the Las Vegas region. Amazon is notable in its ability to reduce range loss when metro Las Vegas delivery drivers use more air conditioning during the heat sesaon.
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United States Postal Service (USPS)
0% of USPS's Southern Nevada delivery fleet is electric
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NO eDVs in a fleet of 310 in 2026
Prior to 2025, USPS in Las Vegas was looking forward to having an entire fleet of Ford E-Transit EDV electric delivery vehicles. In 2026, the federal USPS EV program is experiencing "significant infrastructure delay," with issues about not being able to fund depot-size charging infrastructure. For now, the Postal Service will be making its rounds in its aging, gas-guzzling fleet.
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FedEx
0% of FedEx's Southern Nevada delivery fleet is electric
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NO eDVs in a fleet of 000 in 2026
FedEx has NO electric delivery vehicles in metro Las Vegas. FedEx's initial 2023 rollout of its Bright Drop Zevo 600 delivery vehicle is currently concentrated in Southern California, where the company met the state's then-stringent EV specifications. (California dropped its electric truck regulations under federal duress in 2025) In the coming years, FedEx expects to deploy the Zevo 600 in states that officially decide to require electric delivery vehicles.
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United Parcel Service (UPS)
0% of UPS's Southern Nevada delivery fleet is electric
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NO eDVs in a fleet of 000 in 2026
Prospects of electric UPS trucks in Las Vegas looks uncertain. In 2026 there are none in UPS's Southern Nevada's fleet, and few in the United States. UPS has a few Freightliner Custom Chassis MT50e electric delivery vehicles operating in The Bronx, New York. But Big Brown sees eDVs only as a special-case alternative, and is maintaining its 100,000+ U.S. fossil fleet, indefinitely.
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STATUS of Southern Nevada's
transition to ELECTRIC
GARBAGE TRUCKS
"e-refuse collection vehicles" ( eRCVs )
Republic Services
0% of Republic's Southern Nevada collection fleet is electric
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NO eRCVs in a fleet of 000 in 2026
No one has ever seen an electric garbage truck on the streets of metro Las Vegas. Republic Services in Southern Nevada. But they're going to. Republic is focusing on a Oshkosh's McNeilus Volterra ZSL™ eRCV.
Examples of a fully electric garbage trucks in service near Nevada are the ______ truck in ______ City made by ________ Company.
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2. BUILDINGS in Southern Nevada using clean electricity and going for zero climate emissions
STATUS of metro Las Vegas
STADIUMS & ARENAS
running on clean electricity
Allegiant Stadium
🏈 Las Vegas Raiders
🙄 Allegiant Stadium is the first NFL stadium getting "100% renewable" energy from 100% creative accounting. And its food vendors still cook with gas.
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100% of Allegiant's electricity comes virtually from solar
Allegiant Stadium and its parking lots have no solar panels. Not one. And the stadium's owner, the public Las Vegas Stadium Authority (LVSA), hasn't invested in its own solar array, as MGM Resorts has. So how actually is Allegiant Stadium powered by solar?
LVSA buys Allegiant Stadium's electricity from NV Energy via a virtual purchase agreement. Nevada's Public Utilities Commission (the PUCN) allows NV Energy to link a customer's energy usage to a designated off-site solar array.*
Sure, over the transmission lines, Allegiant's electricity comes from the same 57% fossil fuel / 43% clean mix as it does for any metro Las Vegas utility customer. But the Stadium Authority's virtual solar "subscription" with NV Energy locks in long-term stability for the stadium's electric bill.
LVSA's 2021 virtual purchase arrangement with NV Energy emboldened it to market 2024's Superbowl LVII as the first-ever "100% renewable" Superbowl.
To reduce Allegiant's on-site 100% not-renewable carbon emissions, LVSA could install solar canopies over it's 1,900 surface parking spaces. This on-site solar electricity can help transition the stadium away from gas-burning grills and fryers toward cleaner, all-electric, chef- preferred induction cooking.
* In this case, the Arrow Canyon Solar and Battery Array, in cooperation with the Moapa Reservation, 60 miles northeast of the Las Vegas Strip. EDF Renewables operates the array, and McCarthy Building Companies built it using Canadian Solar solar panels.
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Please support Metrostat reporting on more Las Vegas venues making their clean energy transition:
T-Mobile Arena Las Vegas Golden Knights 🏒
Michelob Ultra Arena Las Vegas Aces 🏀
Naming Rights Ballpark Las Vegas A's ⚾️
Thomas & Mack Center UNLV Rebels 🏀
Las Vegas Ballpark Las Vegas Aviators ⚾️
The Sphere
Status of Las Vegas
RESORT CASINOS
betting on clean electricity
Las Vegas's resort/casinos are high-profile indicators of how well the local Clean Energy Transition is going. Their large-scale clean energy experience informs others in the industry looking to save millions on energy costs.
MGM Resorts International
🏆 MGM Resorts uses more solar energy than anyone in the global hospitality industry
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60% of MGM Resorts’ electricity comes from a desert-based solar array
The MGM Resorts Mega Solar Array supplies enough daytime electricity to power all 13 of MGM's Las Vegas Strip properties and their power-hungry infrastructure.
When the sun is up, the MGM Mega Solar Array powers 1,475 acres of casino floors, 10+ large convention centers, 3 big-league sports arenas, 10 large show venues, 150+ retail stores, 12 food courts, 135+ restaurants, 36,000+ guest rooms, and massive strip-facing signage.
Invenergy and AEP Renewables built, own and operate the MGM Mega Solar Array. NV Energy delivers the solar-made electricity over its transmission lines to the resorts.
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Situated 18 miles northeast of the Las Vegas Strip, the one-square mile MGM Resorts Mega Solar Array was built in 2021 on land managed by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management in its Dry Lake Solar Energy Zone at Apex, Nevada. Dry Lake is part of a network of federal Solar Energy Zones (SEZs) across the western U.S., offering solar projects a fast track for permitting.
MGM is still spending millions on fossil fuels, and spewing huge amounts of carbon from gas fire. These problems are solvable.
⚡️ Dirty Overnight Electricity: After sunset, MGM gets its nighttime electricity from NV Energy’s gas-fire (carbon-spewing) power plants. Not because the sun isn't shining, but because the Mega Solar Array is currently not using utility-scale battery storage. Solution: Transition to 24/7 clean electricity with train-car-size utility batteries. MGM can run on battery-stored solar electricity until the sun rises again in the morning. Nowadays, batteries are included in new solar projects. The 5 year "old" MGM Mega Solar Array can upgrade by adding utility batteries.
👨🏽🍳 Food Prep: MGM's 135+ restaurants burn smelly hot gas for most of its food prep. Solution: Transition to chef-preferred induction food prep. Induction makes for a cooler commercial kitchen than does hot gas fire, it emits no fumes, and uses electricity efficiently.
💧 Hot Water: MGM's 36,000 guest rooms and dozens of extra-large pools get their hot water from gas water heaters. Solution: Transition to Electric Heat Pump water heating to go easy on MGM the electric bill.
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Please help expand Metrostat's clean energy reporting on other Las Vegas resort giants like:
Caesars Entertainment, Wynn Resorts, Hard Rock, Resorts World, Red Rock Casinos, Fontainebleau, Paris, Bally's, Linq, Palazzo & Venetian, Circa, Golden Nugget, The Strat, and Boyd Gaming.
STATUS of Metro Las Vegas
CONVENTION CENTERS
making their own clean electricity
Mandalay Bay
Convention Center
🏆 Mandalay Bay Convention Center has the largest solar rooftop in Nevada, and it's one of the largest in the USA
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Mandalay Bay Convention Center's rooftop solar array supplies up to 25% of the overall resort / casino's electricity.
MGM Resorts outsources the ownership and operations of the solar farm atop the Mandalay Bay Convention Center to NRG Energy, LLC. Some of the panels went up in 2010, and Las Vegas-based Bombard Renewable Energy, LLC built the array's 2016 big expansion with Ten K Solar solar panels.
🤓 Cost savings generated by Mandalay Bay's 28-acre solar rooftop justified MGM executives' decision to move forward with plans (completed in 2021) for a much larger, desert-based solar array.
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Las Vegas Convention Center
🏆 Las Vegas Convention Center has
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Las Vegas Convention Center's solar rooftop above West Hall supplies up to 25% of the facility's electricity.
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STATUS of Southern Nevada
HOME BUILDERS
building all-electric,
zero-emissions homes
* In homes, carbon emissions come from gas water heaters, gas furnaces, gas cloths dryers, and gas kitchens. Carbon emissions stay in the atmosphere and trap heat for 20 - 300 years.
All-Electric homes are
The residential sector in metro Las Vegas relies heavily on gas-burning appliances, which are significant and constant sources of climate and indoor pollution.
Currently, luxury home builders are marketing electric (not gas) appliances as luxury features. "Luxury" clean energy tech means
• Rooftop Solar
• Home Battery
• Home Vehicle Charging
• Induction Cooking
• Heat Pumps for AC, Heat, and Hot Water.
These'll come standard in new mass- produced homes when Southern Nevada's mainstream home builders decide to buy home energy tech in larger quantities - at lower unit prices.
For now, with the exception of one intrepid builder (Beazer Homes) in the Las Vegas Valley, all-electric homes seem limited to luxury developments.
Beazer Homes
🏆 Beazer Homes is the first major homebuilder in Southern Nevada to build all-electric homes.
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446 all-electric homes out of 446 total homes built (2023-24 latest data)
First! One big home builder in Southern Nevada is building all-electric homes. In the early 2020s, Beazer developed one all-electric community in Las Vegas, and two more in Henderson. Now, all of Beazer's new dwellings in metro Las Vegas are either all-electric, or all-electric ready (upgraded electric) for clean-electric features:
🚙 at-home vehicle charging by Xxxxx
⚡️ home batteries with AI power control by Xxxxx
🏠 heat pumps for HVAC and water heaters by Xxxxx
👨🏽🍳 chef-preferred induction cooking appliances by Xxxxx
☀️ some homes have pre-installed solar rooftops by Xxxxx
All-electric homes like Beazer's, built en masse, will be a major part of Las Vegas's clean energy transition.
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Neo by LIVV Homes
🏆 Neo Homes are connected to gas, but you can upgrade to all-electric.
100% of Neo Homes are wired to be all-electric
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89 almost all-electric homes so far
LIVV Homes started developing its hybrid-electric community Neo in Henderson in 2022-23 with build-out set for 2027.
⚡️⚡️ Neo Homes include a LivSmart Solar rooftop, a Tesla Powerwall home battery system, and Leviton Level 2 vehicle charging.
They make all of their own electricity with solar, but also use standard piped-in gas for gas appliances. Each home is pre-wired for all-electric appliances, so homeowners can decide to go no-gas / all-electric.
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Pulte Homes
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0 all-electric homes out of 1,457 total built (2024 latest data)
Pulte Homes don't yet build all-electric homes (homes burning no gas) in metro Las Vegas, but they do offer solar options and whole-house tankless electric water heaters and heat pump water heaters by top-tier brands Rheem and Stiebel Eltron.
In 2024, Pulte had built and were testing several all-electric homes – homes that make all of their own electricity. At the time, Pulte was refining these prototypes for possible mass production. Status pending.
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🏠 DR Horton
🏠 Lennar Homes
🏠 Nevada Hand
STATUS of Southern Nevada
HOSPITALS
using CLEAN ELECTRICITY
The shift toward energy self-sufficiency in Southern Nevada hospitals was a response to early-pandemic (2000 - 2021) supply chain disruptions and concerns over the reliability of the electric grid.
Some hospital-chain board members also have a seat on resort boards which saw MGM Resorts' big return on investment from its Mega Solar Array. With similar large-scale facilities, hospitals began harvesting on-site sunshine at scale, giving peace of mind and impressive reductions on their electricity cost.
So in recent years, Southern Nevada hospital boards have started using their own on-site solar electric micro grids. These grids consist of solar arrays, solar rooftops, solar carports, and great big batteries.
The following hospital groups are powering themselves at least partially by an on-campus solar micro grid.
U.S. Veterans Administration Health System
🏆 The VA Hospital Campus in North Las Vegas makes more on-site solar electricity than any medical facility in Southern Nevada.
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The VA Medical Campus in North Las Vegas meets about 20% of its electricity with its 8-acre on-campus solar field, and it's 1,200-space solar-covered parking lot. REC Group installed the monocrystalline solar panels. General contractor HICAPS designed and built the solar system. Baja Carports made and installed the solar-ready carport structures.
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Dignity Health - St. Rose Dominican Hospital ✝
🏆 Dignity Health's push for energy self sufficiency aligns with the values of its founding Dominican Sisters
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15% to 20% of Dignity Health's electricity in metro Las Vegas comes from on-campus solar
Dignity Health-St. Rose Dominican operates on-campus solar arrays on its San Martin Hospital campus in Las Vegas and Sienna Hospital campus in Henderson. Both went online in 2018. The project includes rooftop and parking lot solar. Clean Focus installed the arrays and Greenskies Renewable Energy LLC manages them.
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🏨 University Medical Center (UMC)
🏨 Sunrise, Southern Hills, and Mountain View Hospitals
🏨 Valley, Henderson, Centennial Hills, and Summerlin Hospitals
🏨 Henderson Hospital
🏨 Mesa View Hospital (Mesquite)
STATUS of Southern Nevada
SCHOOLS & UNIVERSITIES
using clean electricity
The schools in Southern Nevada, from K thru PhD are 700+ campuses of buildings and infrastructure that consume a major portion of Southern Nevada's energy supply. From an energy-use perspective, school campuses, especial those of higher educations, are like the big resort/casino complexes.
Both local building categories (college campuses and resort/casinos) involve 1) many buildings of multiple uses, 2) public and living space for thousands of people, 3) many kitchens of all sizes burning smelly natural gas, 4) extensive HVAC and other systems consuming large amounts of gas and/or electricity, and 5) fleets of vehicles, burning fuel or running on electrons.
University of Nevada Las Vegas
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XX% of UNLV's total energy bill goes towards electricity (2025)
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Faith Lutheran
Middle & High Schools
🏆 Faith Lutheran makes & uses the most solar energy of any private K-12 school in Nevada
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50% of the school's electricity comes from its on-site solar panels
Back in 2012, Faith Lutheran Middle & High School in Summerlin, Las Vegas had a one megawatt (that's large) solar system built by Bombard Renewable Energy of Las Vegas. Now, in 2026, Faith Lutheran still has the largest private K-12 school-based solar array in Nevada.
Faith Lutheran's solar array covers the schools' big roof there's also a 341-space solar carpark. The array provides about half of the school's annual power needs and saves an average of $140,000 yearly on the school's electric bill. The project was easified with NV Energy solar rebates and federal tax credits.
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🏫 Nevada State University - NSU
🏫 College of Southern Nevada - CSN
🏫 Clark County School District - CCSD
STATUS of Southern Nevada
HOUSES of WORSHIP
& CHARITABLE ORGs
making their own POWER
Churches, mosques, synagogues and temples, all together, draw a sizable amount of the Las Vegas region's energy supply. And more of these religious communities are deciding to save big money on electricity by making their own.
Houses of Worship of all sects maximize their financial resources, relying on their own charitable foundations - fueled by concerned congregants. That's why its not all that unusual to see churches and other houses of worship topped with a photovoltaic roof, or next to a solar field.
Congregation Ner Tamid
🏆 Ner Tamid has the largest solar array of any non-profit org in Henderson, Nevada
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Ner Tamid makes 75% of its electricity on-site with its on-the-ground solar system
Back in 2014, Congregation Ner Tamid in Henderson invested $277,000 in a ground-mounted solar array. NV Energy supported the project with a $1.3 million rebate. Their 18 rows of solar panels save the temple up to $80,000 yearly on electricity.
Congregant Jacky Rosen helped inaugurate this mini-power plant. You'll see Ner Tamid's football field size array while driving along the 215 Beltway near Valle Verde Drive.
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Catholic Charities of Southern Nevada
Catholic Charities has
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00% of its electricity is made on-site with solar panels
Catholic Charities of Southern Nevada completed a large solar project in 2021 when it made major upgrades to its buildings.
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Three Square Food Bank
Three Square has
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00% of Three Square's electricity comes from its on-site solar panels
In 2019, the Three Square Food Bank campus in Las Vegas expanded its existing 2011 solar rooftop. Bombard Renewable Energy (Bombard Electric, LLC) installed Heliene™ solar modules. Three Square covered the project's cost with incentives from NV Energy and the Nevada Governor's Office of Energy.
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🏰 International Church of Las Vegas
🏰 Nellis Baptist Church
🏰 Saint Anne's Catholic Church & School
3. Big Tech
STATUS of Las Vegas area
DATA CENTERS
cleanly energized by The Sun
People everywhere are furious. The sudden appearance of a whole new industry - city-scale data centers – comes at a tricky time. Right now, electric supply in most metro areas is just enough to keep up with the growing demand for air-conditioning and electric vehicles.
And while electric utilities are under greater pressure to deliver only clean, affordable electricity, the demands of an energy-guzzling data center can overwhelm a local electric company's ability to produce that much electricity – whether dirty or clean.
All 30 data centers across Clark County, as one industry, use as much electricity as 331,000 average size homes.
There are three ultra-large data centers in the Las Vegas Valley: Switch, Google, and Novva. Together, these big ones use as much electricity as at least 296,000 average size homes.
We say appear because the large-scale data center industry in general has proven to be corrupt. Many data center developers have been bypassing required public scrutiny, hiding their corporate identities, and making secret not-legal deals with local officials. Note: Industry claims of how a data center sources its electricity, and several other serious local problems, need regular independent fact-checking.
Context: The big problem with data factories is that they are city-size in scale. They're packed dense with electronics, so big data centers require city-scale amount of electricity, 24/7
To source their electricity, the typical ultra-large data center taps into the local utility's electric system – power plants and power lines that supply just enough electricity to feed a nearby metro area.
As if excessive water use, noise, and bad air aren't enough, spewing as much climate-damaging carbon dioxide as city-scale power plants.
Good News: Here in the sunny Mojave Desert, in the fabulous Las Vegas Valley, the big data centers don't burn anything to make electricity. Instead, they're electrified by emissions-free, totally clean light from the Sun.
Switch Las Vegas Data Center
"Core Campus & AI Factories"
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85% of Switch Las Vegas's electricity comes from desert-based solar arrays, and 15% from NV Energy clean energy contracts.
Switch Las Vegas is Switch Corporation's southwest U.S. regional data center.
This otherworldly monster on South Decatur Blvd uses enough electricity to power a city the size of Reno, Nevada. It runs on electricity harvested from the Switch 1 and Switch 2 solar arrays in...
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During stressful times on the NV Energy Grid, instead of batteries, the Nexxus Data Center burns diesel fuel to power utility-sized electricity-generating turbines.
Novva
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85% of Nexxus's electricity comes from desert-based solar arrays, and 15% from NV Energy clean energy contracts.
Nexxus Data Center is Nexxus's southwest U.S. regional data center.
This facility uses enough electricity to power ##### average-size homes. It runs on electricity harvested from the Nex and Nex solar arrays in
During stressful times on the NV Energy Grid, instead of batteries, the Novva Data Center burns diesel fuel to power utility-sized electricity-generating turbines.
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Las Vegas's Smaller-Scale Data Centers
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85% of Nexxus's electricity comes from desert-based solar arrays, and 85% from NV Energy clean energy contracts.
Besides the three super-huge data centers operating in metro Las Vegas, 27 much smaller data centers. As a combined group, their total electricity consumption is the same as at least 36,000.
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4. Local Governments in Southern Nevada: Some are transitioning to clean energy faster than others.
[ editorial ] Almost all cities and counties in America have a Climate Action Plan (CAP). This is a big accomplishment considering that climate plans (for infrastructure resiliency and carbon reduction) were a new concept not too long ago.
But go ahead and thumb through a CAP. Many climate action plans read like cut-and-paste tomes, customized through rote public hearings by overpriced consultants. CAPs include a city's climate mission, goals, tasks and timelines. But what clean energy projects actually make it across the finish line? Those are the ones people want to know about.
STATUS of Southern Nevada
LOCAL GOVERNMENTS
using clean electricity
City of Las Vegas
🏆 City of Las Vegas was one of the first big cities in the USA to have all its electricity made from clean energy.
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City of Las Vegas' energy costs are 78% electricity, and 22% fossil fuels.
The City of Las Vegas clean-electrified its 141 buildings, 57 parks, and 27,000 streetlights in the early 2010s. That early in the Great Energy Transition, few cities in the USA had reached that milestone.
Las Vegas gets most of its electricity from the Boulder Solar 1 project (Southern Power and New Energy Solar), and some from Hoover Dam, both near Boulder City, Nevada.
The rest of Las Vegas's electricity comes from the City’s on-site solar installations, like the solar flowers at City Hall, and from solar-covered car parks at 40+ city properties.
City of Las Vegas is still spewing thousands of tons carbon into the atmosphere. Only about 4% of Las Vegas's City-owned vehicles are electric or hybrid electric. The City operates 50 or so electric vehicles, but most of its fleet of 1,300* still burns gasoline or diesel fuel.
* city marshal cruisers, parking enforcement, maintenance trucks, street sweepers, forklifts, backhoes, utility carts, and admin cars, trucks, and vans
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🏛 City of Mesquite
🏛 Town of Pahrump
5. The U.S. Defense Department ethos of self-sufficiency is why Las Vegas's nearby Air Force bases make their own (clean) electricity.
Whether you're a military installation or a fit warrior relying on the public power grid, you are vulnerable to high energy prices. But your logistics officers are smart. They're making electricity from the sunlight that shines on your base.
STATUS of Las Vegas area
Military Bases 🇺🇸
making & using clean electricity
Nellis Air Force Base
Nellis makes 75% of its own electricity, on site
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Las Vegas’s main local U.S. military installation, Nellis Air Force Base, makes enough solar electricity to power its all its ground operations – during daylight hours. Top brass at the base have not yet added big-battery storage to cover nighttime electric use, so NV Energy supplies the Base with gas-fired grid electricity until the sun comes back up.
Big solar installations are now backed-up with big batteries that store excess daytime solar energy for 24/7 use.
Nellis started with a small solar array in 2007 to pioneer the air base self-sufficiency concept for the U.S. Air Force. Then came 102 acres of xxxx solar panels in 2015, installed by xxxxx. With Nellis as the Air Force's proof of concept, solar now powers U.S. air bases around the world.
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Area 51
Area 51 likely makes 100% of its own electricity, on site , but we don't know that
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Las Vegas is the closest city to the legendary top secret U.S. military installation, Area 51.
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6. Making enough clean electricity to power all of Southern Nevada feels like a biblical task, but it can be done.
Electric monopoly NV Energy, Inc is a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway Energy, whose parent company is Berkshire Hathaway Inc [NYSE: BRK.A and BRK.B].
😇 EDITORIAL Berkshire's primary reasons for existing are to pay shareholders a guaranteed 7% annual return on investment, and ensure a well-compensated c-suite. Which is great, no worries, Berkshire is a winner for retirement portfolios, and it does provide uninterrupted electricity to 2.4 million local residents. Sincere kudos!
But, this wealth-first business model may not be best for a public utility tasked by society to fundamentally transform its massive generation and distribution infrastructure.
Any monopoly corporation will be reviled by some, but this one's unitary nature needn't be a bad thing. NV Energy is already taking big steps to manifest Southern Nevada's Great Energy Transition.
But there seem to be obstacles to NV Energy making a fast switch from burning carbon – to a mostly-solar electric grid.
Is NV Energy's business structure an obstacle? What would happen if NV Energy reorganized as a B Corp, oriented toward the public benefit? Would it speed things up, to become a customer/employee-held company? At the least, that 7% could buy loads and loads of, say, utility-sized batteries.
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STATUS of Southern Nevada's
ELECTRIC COMPANY
making enough Clean Electricity
NV Energy, Inc
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NV Energy's electricity gets generated from a mix of sources:
31% solar
43% total clean energy
57% fossil fuels, mainly gas
enough electricity Southern Nevada's 2,300,000 people, local industry, and public infrastructure
Southern Nevada's electric utility, NV Energy, is having enough heartburn keeping up with an ever-growing Valley population, while btw struggling with ever-hotter Valley temps and ever-longer Mojave Desert heat seasons. To make enough electricity for Valley air conditioners, every year or two NV Energy has to fire up additional, super-expensive, methane gas turbines to their already sizable arsenal.
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STATUS of Metro Las Vegas
PARKING LOTS
making Electricity from the Sun
Making Loads of Electricity, In-Town, almost unnoticed, except for the shading it gives you vehicle.
Parking lots across the Las Vegas metro area get as much sunlight as the vast solar arrays out in the desert. ...estimates there are 00,000 acres of bare-to-the sun parking lots in metro Las Vegas that are well-suited for solar-covered parking.
If the big parking lots of metro Vegas were covered with solar canopies and connected to the region's electricity grid, as a whole, they could make as much electricity as all of NV Energy's gas-fired power plants put together.
Everyday Human Comfort
The Mojave Desert has six+ months of temperatures over 90˚F. By shading heat-absorbing asphalt from the sun, covered parking lots reduce the air temperature around adjacent buildings. And they keep vehicle interiors 30 to 40˚ cooler than if they were parked out in the open.
Southern Nevada has roughly 25,000 acres of parking lots suitable for making massive amounts of solar electricity
...enough electricity to power Southern Nevada's peak daytime demand.
Las Vegas Springs Preserve & Nevada State Museum have [ # ] acres of parking that make enough solar electricity to power most of these co-located public attractions.
Las Vegas Water District headquarters has [ # ] acres of parking shaded by solar panels that power [ # % ] of the facility's electric needs.
Mojave High School in North Las Vegas
City of North Las Vegas - rec centers and Cora Coleman Senior Center
Henderson Equality Center -
St. Rose Dominican Hospital (Sienna Campus) - 430 parking spaces
College of Southern Nevada (Henderson Campus west-side lot) - 000 parking spaces
Gaudin Porsche of Las Vegas has solar 000 solar carports that power its large showroom and service bay lighting.
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