The Department of Energy will hold its Clean Energy Project Information Day for the Nevada National Security Site Feb. 13 in Las Vegas, the department said this week.
The session will be held at the National Atomic Testing Museum at 755 East Flamingo Road in Las Vegas, Nevada on Feb. 13, at a time to be determined, DOE said in an update to a request for information issued last week.
The session will allow interested parties to learn more about this potential project for carbon-free solar energy projects at the Nevada National Security Site, DOE said. The site of past underground and atmospheric nuclear explosive tests is located about 65 miles from Las Vegas.
A link to the National Nuclear Security Administration industry day announcement is available here.
The Nevada National Security Site has about 2,400 acres of desert land at the Nevada site that could potentially be used for solar power generation, according to a DEC. 7 notice in the federal government’s online System for Award Management.
Responses to the request for information/expressions of interest are due by 4 p.m. Pacific Time on Jan. 12, 2024.
The Nevada National Security Site’s Clean Energy Project Zone is located near the junction of the site’s Mercury Highway and U.S. Highway 95, according to materials published with the notice. There are power lines located nearby.
On the heels of DOE’s request for information at the former nuclear test site, Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) said in a Dec. 11 press release Nevada is already one of the nation’s leading states for investment in solar and other non-fossil fuel electricity. She cited a new quarterly report from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
DOE has previously issued requests for information for potential carbon-free power projects at the Hanford Site in Washington state, the Savannah River Site in South Carolina and the Idaho National Laboratory.
DOE’s Cleanup to Clean Energy project, kicked off in July by Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, is meant to further President Joe Biden’s goal of getting federal properties to use the equivalent of 100% carbon-free energy by 2030.
