Power Plants in Nevada

Nevada's power sector in numbers

Bywatts maps 50 operating power plants with 11.9 GW of nameplate capacity in Nevada. Natural Gas leads with 69% of that capacity across 16 plants, followed by Solar (12%) and Hydro (9%). The inventory also includes 9 plants (2.0 GW) that EIA-860 lists as retired, 1 partly retired with no operable units of its recorded fuel and 4 never built; the largest retired plant is MOHAVE (1,636 MW, retired 2012).

The largest operating plants are CHUCK LENZIE GENERATING STATION (1,466 MW, Natural Gas, NEVADA POWER CO), CLARK (NVE) (1,243 MW, Natural Gas, NEVADA POWER CO) and TRACY (1,074 MW, Natural Gas, SIERRA PACIFIC POWER CO).

Of the 49 operating plants with a recorded commissioning year, 34 came online in 2000 or later and 19 in 2010 or later; the busiest decade for new capacity was the 2000s (4.6 GW).

The largest operators by operating capacity are NEVADA POWER CO (6 plants, 4.8 GW), SIERRA PACIFIC POWER CO (3 plants, 1.9 GW) and U S BUREAU OF RECLAMATION (1 plant, 1.0 GW).

Retail electricity sales in Nevada reached 39.8 TWh in 2025, up 10.6% over ten years and down 2.0% year on year; residential customers took 34.9% of it. The average retail price across all sectors was 10.31 cents per kWh, up 8.8% since 2015.

The database also maps 166 named substations (25 of the 128 with a recorded voltage are rated 345 kV or above), 2 data centers (operators include Fiberhub and Switch), 118 solar installers and 38 solar companies in Nevada.

Operating capacity by fuel

Retail electricity sales

Sources: HIFLD power-plant inventory (capacity, fuel, operator), EIA-860 (commissioning year, retirements, operable capacity), EIA retail sales and revenue series through January 2026. Counts are of plants Bywatts lists, not every generator in the state.