Edward W. Clark Generating Station is a 1,102 megawatt plant owned by
Nevada Power on located in the
Las Vegas Valley
The Las Vegas Valley is a major metropolitan area in the Southern Nevada, southern part of the U.S. state of Nevada, and the second largest in the Southwestern United States. The state's largest urban agglomeration, the Las Vegas Metropolitan St ...
town of
Whitney, Nevada
Whitney (formerly East Las Vegas) is an unincorporated town and census-designated place in Clark County, Nevada, United States. The population was 38,585 at the 2010 census.
Background
Stowell E. Whitney, a dairy farmer from Bunkerville, Nev ...
, USA. The plant consists of 19 units and first went into service in 1954 as Nevada Power’s first gas power plant.
Units
*75-kW
photovoltaic
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system developed jointly with the
University of Nevada
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and the
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
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[
*1 General Electric MS-7000 gas-fired (1973)][
*12 50-MW FT8 Pratt & Whitney gas-fired peaking units (2008)][
]
Notes
{{Energy resource facilities in Nevada
Energy infrastructure completed in 1954
Energy infrastructure completed in 1973
Energy infrastructure completed in 2008
Buildings and structures in Clark County, Nevada
Natural gas-fired power stations in Nevada
Solar power stations in Nevada