Nevada Power Company
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Nevada Power Company was a Las Vegas-based company that produced, distributed, and sold electricity in the southern part of the state of Nevada. In 2005, it had over 700,000 electric customers in part
Nevada Power Company headquarters in Las Vegas
Mohave Generating Station
Reid Gardner Generating Station
Hoover Dam
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The Hoover Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the boundary between the U.S. states of Nevada and Arizona. Constructed between 1931 and 1936, during the Gr
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…and is now part of CenturyLink. The power company became Southern Nevada Power. In 1937, it became one of the first utilities to receive power from the Hoover Dam. As the Las Vegas Valley boomed in the 1950s, its power needs exceeded the power available from the dam, and Southern Nevada Power began building its…
2017 Aerial view Hoover Dam 4774
River view of the future dam site, c. 1904
Sketch of the proposed dam site and reservoir, c. 1921
Workers on a "Jumbo Rig"; used for drilling the Hoover Dam's tunnels