NV Energy: ‘Don’t worry about the solar’ during eclipse
By Sean Whaley, Las Vegas Review-Journal
Go ahead, flip on that light switch Monday in the middle of the first total solar eclipse to come close to Nevada in 38 years.
Walk outside and check out the rare phenomenon of darkness during the day if you like.
The grid will be just fine. Even with 72 percent of the sun blocked in Southern Nevada for a brief period of time. And even with a dependence on solar energy that didn’t exist in 1979 during the last total eclipse in the contiguous United States.
At NV Energy, a lot of preparation has gone into analyzing the effects of the eclipse, which is expected to first make its presence felt on the grid at a few minutes past 9am, peak at about 10:20amand be gone by noon.