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, Fire Trucks & Ambulances
2. BUILDINGS
🏫 Schools, Colleges & Universities
3. INDUSTRY
🔵 Clark County
🔷 North Las Vegas
🔷 Henderson
🔸 Boulder City
🔸 Laughlin
🔸 Mesquite
✈️ Nellis & Creech Air Force Bases
👽 Area 51
🔋 Utility-Scale Batteries
7. Woo! 100% SOLAR
🖐🏼 Moapa Band of Southern Paiute
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1. The Electric Vehicle transition in Southern Nevada
This is the status of metro Las Vegas and Southern Nevada's uptake of:
⦿ Light-duty passenger EVs like SUVs, trucks, crossovers, cars, and motorcycles
⦿ Heavy-duty EV fleets like police cars, firetrucks, ambulances, buses, delivery trucks, and garbage trucks.
STATUS of Southern Nevada's
acceleration to ELECTRIC
SUVs, TRUCKS & CARS
39,000+ All-Electric vehicles drive the roads of Southern Nevada, out 1,780,000 total.
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3.1% of vehicles registered in Clark County (Southern Nevada) are all-electric
39,000 all-electric vehicles are 3.1% of all private and commercial vehicles in Southern Nevada. This does not count hybrid EVs because hybrids run on gasoline.
All-Electric Vehicles are also known as battery electric vehicles (BEVs). They're powered by rechargeable batteries, have no engine, burn no fuel, and need no tailpipe because they spew no exhaust.
Hybrid Electric Vehicles (HEVs) spew carbon dioxide like any fossil fuel-burning vehicle. The "electric" in hybrid electric refers to a motor that helps the gasoline engine get better gas mileage.
Perspective: Southern Nevada's transition to electric vehicles started in the mid 2010s with only a few hundred vehicles.
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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 2025-26 were all electric
These are Southern Nevada's Best-Selling All-Electric Vehicles in 2025-26:
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™ (advocacy nonprofit)
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STATUS of Southern Nevada's
great big expansion of
EV Charging Stations
[ STATUS ] 2026
◉ 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 has been deploying enough EV fast-charging to serve the growing number of people driving EVs.
You can quickly charge your EV at over a hundred gas stations, grocery stores, and big-box stores across the Las Vegas Valley
Fast = 15 to 30 minutes for an 80% full charge
(00) = number of charging ports
Gas 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.
And, 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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⚡️ Heading out from Las Vegas in your EV? On a quick charge-up, you can have peace of mind driving to "nearby" towns and cities.
"Nearby" in Southern Nevada can mean up to 100 or more miles. 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.
These fast-charge stations are well-maintained and reliable, taking 15 to 30 minutes for a full charge. Check their status with Google Maps before you travel.
For EVs with 300+ mile battery range
(00) = number of charging ports
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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
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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
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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)
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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)
Las Vegas Speedway 7-11 (2)
Alamo no FAST chargers
Ely Ridley's Market (16)
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STATUS of Southern Nevada's
transition to
ELECTRIC POLICE CARS
[ STATUS ] 2026
◉ Four out of 10 Southern Nevada police departments are using electric police cruisers, electric motorcycles, electric bikes, and electric scooters.
◉ Southern Nevada's transition to electric policing will become more noticeable when its public safety departments swap out old gas cars only with electric new ones –
◉ gifted, paid 100% from their departments' budget. Self-funding is the ideal, and a realistic necessity.
👮♂️👮♂️ Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (Metro)
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0.66% of Metro's vehicle fleet are fully electric (17 EVs of roughly 2,560 police vehicles), including 7 electric motorcycles.
Less than 1% of it's fleet being fully electric. If you count Metro's growing fleet of hybrid patrol cars as electric, that number would be closer to 20%. Metro needs charging infrastructure at the precinct level before committing to all-electric policing.
Metro started transitioning in 2022 to Hybrid Patrol Cars with approx 450–550 hybrids in service in 2026. Current budget allocations and orders show that Metro will have between 750–850 hybrid units in operation before 2028.
The gas-powered Ford Explorer-based gas-fueled Ford Interceptor Utility has been the backbone of Metro’s 1,200 to 1,400 unit patrol fleet for decades. Metro refreshes its Interceptor fleet with 150 to 225 new units every year. Great news is that Metro's 2024–2026 budget cycles have been prioritizing the Ford Hybrid Police Interceptor Utility (FPIU) which reduces the unit's hot-desert idle-time* by up to $4,000 each year.
Electric Motorcycles: Metro operates a fleet of seven ZeroMMX police motorcycles made by Zero Motorcycles, Inc. (California). Metro uses these "silent patrol" e-motorcycles on The Las Vegas Strip, and at the Convention Center.
The Consumer Electronics Association donated the Zero MMXs back in 2011, and in 2026 they're still sneaking up on potential bad people on The Strip. Metro isn't expanding it's Zero fleet because they're moving toward four-wheel hybrid cop cars for most of its police vehicles.
Each year from 2026 forward, Metro will be replacing more and more of its carbon-spewing BMW patrol motorcycles with its Ford Hybrid Interceptors.
The gas-electric Interceptors enable less-costly all-day air conditioning during Las Vegas's lengthening heat season.
Metro also uses all-electric Ford F-150 Lightning and Mustang Mach-E vehicles for office duties.
💰 City of Las Vegas's Capital Improvement Fund is the main funding source for Metro's fleet replacements, whether gas or electric.
* Patrol cars (cruisers) and motorcycles, plus tactical units, transport and admin vehicles. Not including 75 drones and 4 helicopters. 🚁
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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?
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40% of Southern Nevada police agencies with at least one EV in their 2025 fleet
(Four agencies out of 10).
These Southern Nevada police jurisdictions may have EVs on their radar, but none yet in their 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
( NO 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.
😳 🙀 😩
In 2025, RTC Commissioners made a decision to purchase, on behalf of local taxpayers,
◉ 46 new methane ("natural gas") transit buses
◉ 10 new diesel double-decker tourist buses
Buying new fossil fuel infrastructure with public funds is not yet illegal, but certainly feels like a gross violation of the public trust. These new climate monsters will spew thousands of tons of carbon emissions each year, over their 15 year service life.
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Clark County School District (CCSD)
0.103% CCSD's school bus fleet is electric
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Two electric buses in a fleet of 1,925
In 2023, CCSD began transporting students in two electric school buses – Thomas Built's Jouley Gen 2® – funded by NV Energy, the Nevada Division of Environmental Protection, and the Clark County Division of Air Quality.
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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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🔮 Hi-tech entertainment
Area 15
🛸 Hi-tech entertainment
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
✈️ Aviators
STATUS of Metro Las Vegas
RESORT / CASINOS
betting on clean electricity
Las Vegas's iconic resort/casinos are a high-profile indicator of how well the local clean energy transition is going. Their larger-scale energy journeys can inform others in the industry who want to improve their bottom line on energy costs.
MGM Resorts International
🏆 MGM Resorts makes and uses the most solar energy of anyone in the hospitality industry, worldwide
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60% of MGM Resorts’ yearly energy use is electricity. This is Amazing.
40% remaining to be transitioned from gas and other fossil fuels. (2023 latest data )
Situated 18 miles northeast of the Las Vegas Strip,* the one square mile (640 acre) MGM Resorts Mega Solar Array supplies enough electricity to power all 13 of MGM's Strip properties and their power-hungry infrastructure.
🌞 When the sun is up, MGM's Mega Solar Array is powering 1,475 acres of casino floors, 10+ large convention centers, two big sports arenas, a dozen live show venues, 150+ retail stores, and 36,000+ guest rooms.
In 2021, MGM Resorts started direct-sourcing most of its daytime electricity directly from Invenergy LLC and AEP Renewables LLC, who built, own and operate MGM's Mega Solar Array. Over its electric grid, NV Energy transmits the array's massive amount of solar-made electricity to each of MGMs 13 resort properties.
still emitting tho
😱 At night, when MGM's Mega Solar Array is offline (and because the project currently has no utility-scale battery storage), the 13 resorts draw electricity from NV Energy’s up-all-night, 🔥 gas-fired, 🏭 carbon-spewing power plants.
Like most of the U.S.A. in 2026, MGM's 13 resorts burn methane gas for hot water and winter heating. MGM also burns methane gas for food prep in its 135+ restaurants.
so, transition further!
👨🏽🍳 Modern technologies like highly-efficient, chef-preferred induction cooking offer MGM the most effective way to slash emissions, and save millions on expensive methane gas. This is for MGM's executive chefs and company execs to decide.
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* The 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-lane for permitting.
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♦️ Your support will abilify us to track and report on the energy transition status of other Las Vegas resort and casinos, like Bally's, Boyd Gaming, Caesars Entertainment, Circa, Golden Nugget, Hard Rock, Linq, Palazzo & Venetian, Paris, Resorts World, Red Rock Casinos, Stratosphere, and Wynn Resorts.
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
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 wiring and controls) for clean-tech 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 (plus about 350,000 existing home electrofits) will be a major part of Las Vegas's clean energy transition.
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Neo by LIVV Homes
🤓 Neo homes are hybrid electric, and you can upgrade to all-electric. They're a big step up from standard Las Vegas area homes.
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89 hybrid electric homes so far
LIVV Homes started developing its luxury hybrid-electric community Neo in Henderson in 2022-23 with build-out set for 2027.
⚡️⚡️ Neo homes are extremely well-insulated and include a LivSmart Solar rooftop, a Tesla Powerwall home battery system, and Leviton Level 2 vehicle charging.
Neo homes are hybrid electric homes.
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, and "all-electric."
👊🏼 As builders of hybrid electric homes, LIVV Homes are further along the clean energy path than most other home builders in metro Las Vegas.
* In homes, carbon emissions come from gas water heaters, gas furnaces, gas cloths dryers, and gas kitchens. Carbon emissions persist in the atmosphere and trap heat for 20 - 300 years.
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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 and hybrid-electric homes – homes that make all of their own electricity. Pulte was refining these "zero net energy" prototypes for possible mass production. Status pending.
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🏠 DR Horton
🏠 Lennar
🏠 Nevada Hand
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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 the hospitals' 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 carport solar structures. Clean Focus installed the arrays and Greenskies Renewable Energy LLC manages them.
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00% of Southern Nevada big hospital chains make at least some of their own electricity on site, or have a virtual solar power purchase agreement with NV Energy.
The energy transition status of these metro Las Vegas hospital groups are pending your support:
🏨 Henderson Hospital
🏨 Intermountain Health
🏨 Mesa View Hospital (Mesquite)
🏨 Searchlight Health Center
🏨 Sunrise, Mountain View, and Southern Hills Hospitals (HCA Hospitals)
🏨 Valley, Henderson, Summerlin, and Centennial Hills Hospitals (Valley Health Systems)
🏨 University Medical Center (UMC)
STATUS of Southern Nevada
PUBLIC SCHOOLS,
COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES
using clean electricity
[ context ] 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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The energy transition status of other Southern Nevada school systems, listed here, will appear here in 2026.
🏫 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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00% of Southern Nevada houses of worship and religious schools make at least some of their own electricity on site.
Transition status of these metro Las Vegas religious orgs in progress:
🏰 Desert Spring United Methodist Church
🏰 International Church of Las Vegas
🏰 Nellis Baptist Church
🏰 Saint Anne's Catholic Church & School
3. Industry. One new industry in metro Las Vegas uses as much electricity as a the Valley itself, and most of it comes from the the nearby solar desert
[ context ] But go where data industry?
STATUS of Southern Nevada
DATA CENTERS
cleanly energized by the sun
Southern Nevada's electric utility, NV Energy, is at full capacity keeping up with the metro Las Vegas's ever-growing electric demand. Extra utility juice for exascale (city equivalent) data centers is just not an option. Knowing this, big data companies in metro Las Vagas are arranging for their own sources of electricity. Here in the sunny Mojave Desert that source is emissions-free, ultraviolet light from the Sun.
Switch LAS VEGAS
The Core Campus & AI Factories
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00% of Warm Spring's electricity comes from its off-site solar panels
Switch LAS VEGAS (SLV) is one of Switch's behemoth regional data centers. The data company is using Exascale Tier 5 Platinum processors to handle SLVs massive AI workload.
This mothership of a facility will make you take notice as you travel past it on Decatur Blvd in the Southwest Las Vegas Valley. The total electric capacity of Switch Las Vegas is enough to power nearly the entire city of Reno, Nevada – houses, buildings, casinos and all.
SLV runs on solar-made electricity from the Switch 1 and Switch 2 solar arrays in...
Conservationists are justifiably concerned about the raw desert habitat now covered by the data center's xxx acre solar array. On the ground, 92% of the array is fixed on the flat salt pan of Eldorado Valley, near Boulder City.
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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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50% of Southern Nevada municipalities make at least some of their own electricity.
With your support. The energy transition status of these Southern Nevada jurisdictions will be reported here.
🏛 Clark County, Nevada
🏛 City of North Las Vegas
🏛 City of Henderson
🏛 Boulder City
🏛 City of Laughlin
🏛 City of Mesquite
🏛 Town of Pahrump
5. The U.S. Department of War's ethos of self-sufficiency is why Las Vegas's nearby Air Force bases make their own (clean) electricity.
[ strategic ] Whether you're a military installation or a fit warrior relying on the public power grid, you are vulnerable to high rates and other civil disruptions. And you're emitting tons of carbon. Better to be like your own prepper encampment, and generate your own electricity from the sun.
STATUS of Las Vegas area
🇺🇸 U.S. Air Force 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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