Over the period, Nevada’s CO2 emissions in electric power sector fell 33 percent, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s “Today in Energy” report, and the state’s reduction in carbon-intensive coal use was a key factor.
The state ranked second in the nation in utility-scale net electricity generation from geothermal energy and third in utility-scale net generation from solar energy in 2013; 9.8 percent of Nevada’s net electricity generation in 2013 came from those two sources.
With 32 operating geothermal power plants producing 566 MW of clean, renewable power, Nevada currently produces more geothermal energy than any other state in the U.S. except California. If Nevada were a country, it would be the eighth largest producer of geothermal power of the 25 countries generating this form of renewable electricity today.
The state-mandated Energy Portfolio Standard requires that 25 percent of electricity sales come from renewable energy resources by 2025. In 2013, 18 percent of net electricity generation came from geothermal, solar, wind, and hydroelectric power sources.
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