NV Energy history

By 1929, the company had split into two separate corporations -- Southern Nevada Power Company and Southern Nevada Telephone Company.

In 1937, Southern Nevada Power became the first utility to distribute electricity from newly completed Hoover Dam, the major source of power for Las Vegas for the next 18 years.

Convinced the dam would become a major tourist attraction, the first of Las Vegas' hotel-casinos, the plush El Rancho Vegas, was opened in 1940.

The company dropped "Southern" from its name in 1961, following its acquisition of the Elko-Lamoille Power Company in northern Nevada.

In 1962, Nevada Power was the first Nevada-based company to have its common stock listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

Beginning in 1963, the company started constructing its own natural gas and oil fired power plants, reducing its dependence on imported power.

Sierra Pacific Power's common stock was first traded on the New York Stock Exchange in 1968.

NV Energy is the product of the 1998 merger of the two major utilities in Nevada—northern Nevada's Sierra Pacific Power, based in Reno, and Las Vegas' Nevada Power.

As a side note, ownership of the company's small hydroelectric plants, including Farad, was transferred to the Truckee Meadows Water Authority in 2002 when it purchased Sierra Pacific's water treatment/distribution system in Reno-Sparks.

In 2006, the company announced plans to construct the Ely Energy Center near Ely, Nevada.

The project would initially consist of two 750 megawatt pulverized coal generation units, but was delayed for approximately 10 years in February 2009.

MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company (now Berkshire Hathaway Energy), a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, acquired NV Energy in a transaction completed on December 19, 2013.

In July 2018, NV Energy launched an electric vehicle infrastructure program.