As we all know, Las Vegas is located in a deserted area and is a city that consumes quite some energy. How is so much power distributed to there?
It's probably underground power lines, but it has to be SOOOO expensive to distribute power to such a far away place.
2007-08-15 06:00:41 · 5 answers · asked by jojorockman 2 in Travel ➔ United States ➔ Las Vegas
Overhead power lines. And, contrary to the popular myth, only 4% of the Las Vegas Valley's power needs are met from hydro-electric generation at Hoover Dam. The power from the dam goes to Arizona, California and Boulder City, Nevada. There's four coal-fired generators in Moapa (about 45 minutes north of Las Vegas), one generator in Apex (about half an hour from the Strip), two gas-fired generators in the eastern part of the valley and ten generators in Whitney Township, just north of Henderson. Even with all that, 50% of the power needs have to be imported via overhead lines from generators outside the state. And the demand keeps going up, because the population does too.
2007-08-15 16:20:49 · answer #1 · answered by desertviking_00 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wrong, The Hoover Dam facility was specially built to power the desert. By road it is only about 40 minutes away from the strip. The Dam provides energy to Arizona andNevada(Las Vegas) and many more states
2007-08-17 10:18:34 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hoover Dam is just a short distance away from Las Vegas, though there are alternate sources of power brought in from other places via overhead, not underground, lines.
2007-08-15 14:27:51 · answer #3 · answered by dllou1 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
try asking the las vegas police department, they might help. lol
2007-08-16 05:05:36 · answer #4 · answered by gisela g 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
And they dare say I have a problem do you live to know Powerlines ??????
2007-08-16 09:25:59 · answer #5 · answered by Zippy 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋