Nevada data center decisions: the next 12 months

9:00 a.m., Hearing Room A in Las Vegas, by video to Carson City. Docket 26-06016: Nexus Fulcrum's application for a permit to build ASR-IX, a permanent natural gas plant in Storey County, filed 17 June 2026.

Why this date: the commission's Notice of Hearing dated 27 August 2026, and its tentative schedule effective 6 October 2026. Both are scanned documents in the docket; search the commission's document site for 26-06016.

10:00 a.m., Hearing Room A in Carson City, by video to Las Vegas. Docket 26-05007, the plan driven largely by data center demand. The first phase was settled by agreement, filed 17 August and accepted 10 September.

Why this date: the commission's Notice of Hearing dated 25 September 2026, a scanned document in the docket; search the commission's document site for 26-05007. The decision itself is the 31 December row.

Question 1 asks whether data centers should be an approved land use in the Eldorado Valley Transfer Area. The City Council put it on the ballot on 24 February 2026. In the governor's race, the Democratic nominee, Aaron Ford, has pledged to pause new data center tax breaks until audits are done.

Under the governor's order, anyone applying for a tax break must sign a binding commitment covering water, ratepayers, the grid, siting, workforce and community benefit. These terms set what it actually requires.

Why this date: Section 3(b) of the order, signed 17 September 2026, tells the Executive Director to publish the terms on or before 6 November. It is a deadline, so the terms could appear sooner.

Docket 26-05007. The plan proposes 4,370 MW of solar, 5,405 MW of batteries, 1,223 MW of gas turbines and 180 MW of geothermal, driven largely by data center demand.

Why this date: the plan was filed on 7 May 2026, and the 180-day clock in statute would land in early November. NV Energy amended it on 4 June and the case was re-noticed, which may have restarted that clock. Reporting points to a vote in December. The second-phase hearing is set for 26 October, but no decision date appears on the docket, so treat the end of the year as a projection, not a deadline.

Ordered by the governor to cover Nevada's power needs through 2036.

Why this date: Section 5 of the governor's order, signed 17 September 2026, sets 31 December 2026 as the deadline.

Up to 150 MW under the Clean Transition Tariff, with plants due online between 2028 and 2030.

Why this date: Ormat's own announcement says approval is expected in the second half of 2026. No hearing date has been published.

The first mandatory residential demand charge by an investor-owned utility in the United States. It covers residential and small commercial customers, and it feeds straight into the argument over who pays for data center power.

Why this date: NV Energy's own fact sheet gives 1 January 2027. The start has already been put back twice, and we could not find the outcome of the commission hearing held on 27 July 2026. The first bills affected will depend on each billing cycle.

Resolution 2026-18 pauses new data centers and is renewable.

Why this date: the resolution was adopted on 22 July 2026 and runs 180 days, which lands here. It is our count, not a meeting on the calendar, and we have not seen the resolution text, which may run from a later effective date.

The industrial center's developer is suing the local water district over whether the promised water can actually be delivered at full buildout.

Why this date: the report gives the month as May without a year. We have placed it in 2027 and have not confirmed that.

Adopted 6 July 2026 and covering unincorporated Humboldt County, not Winnemucca. It ends on this date unless the county extends it or adopts rules first.

Note: this end date comes from a tracker rather than the county's own record. The county's agenda page lists nothing recent and the local paper blocks reading, so we have not seen the ordinance itself.

Adopted 1 June 2026 on a 6 to 1 council vote. It ends on this date, or sooner, but only once the city's new rules are in effect.