North Carolina-based Duke Energy, a Fortune 500 power giant that serves 4.5 million American households, is proposing a $600 million wind farm on 24,000 acres of Bureau of Land Management property east of Searchlight, about 50 miles south of Las Vegas.
Duke's Searchlight Wind Energy Project would generate 370 megawatts of electricity -- enough to power more than 90,000 homes. The 420-foot turbines would be visible from Searchlight, from U.S. Highway 95 and from parts of Lake Mohave.
Duke recently held a public meeting about the project. Read the details in the Las Vegas Review Journal.
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