Sierra Pacific delays plans for Ely Energy Center
Sierra Pacific Resources will not proceed with plans for the giant, $3.8 billion Ely Energy Center, coal-fired power plant and related transmission line, until late 2009 or 2010, the Public Utilities Commission was told last week. 
Kirby Lampley, utility commission director of regulatory operations, proposed delaying hiring an engineering consultant for the project, because the utility company now doesn’t intend to seek final approval for the project for another year or two. He said the company may come back for additional approval in late 2009 or early 2010, rather than in March, as originally planned.
The utility holding company for Nevada Power Co. of Las Vegas said the energy center plans are being delayed because it doesn’t expect to obtain approval from the Bureau of Land Management to build the project on federal land until that time.
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