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NV Energy Resilience Corridor Project-State and Private

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Project Overview

Basics

Forest and Community Resilience & Health
Community Wildfire Protection
Defensible Space and Home Hardening
NV Energy Resilience Corridor Project-State and Private
Implementation
This project focused on fuels work on non-federal lands with the goal of creating resilient corridors along NV Energy’s electrical lines on all lands. This project also includes electrical system upgrades across all lands, including federal, in the Tahoe Basin. Together, the fuel management work and electrical infrastructure upgrades minimize wildfire risk as called for in NV Energy’s Natural Disaster Prevention Plan (NDPP).
This project is linked to EIP Project # 02.01.02.0016 which focuses on fuels management along NV Energy’s electrical lines on federal lands managed by the US Forest Service-Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit.
2022
2022
2027
1/26/2026

Project Attributes

Footprint Acres
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Location

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Named Area: Nevada , Area Type: State

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Organizations

Funder
  • Nevada Energy
Lead Implementer
  • Nevada Energy

Contacts

Mark Young (mark.young@nvenergy.com)

Performance Measures

Expected Performance Measures

Acres of Forest Fuels Reduction Treatment Critical Zone: Unspecified Treatment Phases: Unspecified Treatment Type: Mechanical Thinning 2,000 acres
Acres of Forest Fuels Reduction Treatment Critical Zone: Unspecified Treatment Phases: Unspecified Treatment Type: Mechanical Thinning 2,000 acres
Acres of Forest Fuels Reduction Treatment Critical Zone: Unspecified Treatment Phases: Unspecified Treatment Type: Unspecified Not Provided

Reported Performance Measures

Acres of Forest Fuels Reduction Treatment
Critical Zone Treatment Phases Treatment Type Total 2025 2024 2023 2022 Units
Unspecified Unspecified Hand Thinning 372.5 48.3 324.2 N/A N/A acres
Unspecified Unspecified Mechanical Thinning 522.1 25.8 0.3 216 280 acres
Unspecified Unspecified Biomass Removal 22.5 22.5 N/A N/A N/A acres
Unspecified Unspecified Prescribed Burning 245 N/A 197 48 N/A acres
Total 1,162.1 96.6 521.5 264 280 acres

Financials

Budget

$11,000,000.00
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$11,000,000.00

No Funding Sources identified for this Project.

Comment: None provided

Reported Expenditures

2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 Total
Nevada Energy (NV Energy) $300,000.00 $300,000.00 $300,000.00 $300,000.00 $0.00 $1,200,000.00
Grand Total $300,000.00 $300,000.00 $300,000.00 $300,000.00 $0.00 $1,200,000.00
Note: None provided

Pillars of Resilience

Pillars of Resilience

Project Details

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Notes

01/12/2026 2:31 PM Jonason Ho In 2025, the following NDDP system hardening actions were taken that do not have specified performance measures:
- 6 pole replacements.
- Expulsion fuse replacement program, those have been completed in the Tahoe Basin.
- 58 tree attachment removals.
- 0 miles of copper wire were removed and rebuilt with covered conductor
- 3.99 miles of upgraded and rebuilt lines
- 2.67 miles of line undergrounding in Glenbrook area.
- 17 hazard trees were removed.
02/06/2025 9:37 AM System In 2024, the following NDDP system hardening actions were taken that do not have specified performance measures:

- 4 single pole replacements
- 41 tree attachment removals
- 3.1 miles of copper wire was removed and rebuilt with covered conductor
- 4.95 miles of upgraded and rebuilt lines
- 1.5 miles of line undergrounding
01/26/2024 9:09 AM System The split is not likely exactly 50/50, but wanted to reflect that some work was on state lands and some on private. reporting for specific land ownership will be dialed in future years.
01/24/2024 10:47 PM System In 2023, the following NDDP system hardening actions were taken that do not have specified performance measures:

- 249 single pole replacements
- 72 tree attachment removals
- 1.3 miles of copper wire was removed and rebuilt with covered conductor (with this rebuild 37 poles were removed and replaced)
- Through the partnership with Glenbrook Underground about 0.3 mile of overhead wire was undergrounded. This was not along a scenic travel route so not identified as a separate performance measure.
04/03/2023 11:49 AM System In 2022, the following additional NDPP actions were taken that do not have specified performance measures:

- 264 pole replacements
- 2.8 miles of copper wire removed
- Six tree attachments were removed
- Perimeter hardening was completed around the Kingsbury substation
03/05/2023 10:36 PM System The resilience corridors project is designed to treat the areas adjacent to the powerline in three zones as follows:

• Zone 1 (up to 15 feet on each side of the power line for 60 kV lines, and up to 21 feet for 120 kV lines): Remove all vegetation, including all trees, within the specified distance (15 or 21 feet) from power poles and create a noncontiguous fuel pattern consistent with the International Wildland Urban Interface Code and NV Energy’s NDPP.

• Zone 2 (between 15 and 175 feet on each side of the power line for 60 kV lines, and between 21 and 75 feet for 120 kV lines): Remove trees with structural defects that have the potential to strike utility infrastructure, reduce fuels, and thin to desired conditions.

• Zone 3 (between 175 and approximately 1,000 feet on each side of the power line): Reduce fuel loads and thin the forest to desired conditions.

Treatments will be accomplished using hand crews and mechanical equipment. Acreages and costs provided are estimates at this time.

NDPP infrastructure improvements are intended to ruggedize the system and include replacing copper wire, replacing poles and fuses, and undergrounding overhead distribution lines. System hardening activities include installing non-expulsion fuses, replacing wood poles with ductile iron poles, installing fire retardant pole wrap on wood poles, and other proactive devices.


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Photos

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    After fuel reduction work, along the Eastern boundary of Edgewood Properties near Stateline, NV. Mastication by Tahoe Douglas FPD 9/8/2025. (Timing: After) (~541 KB) Credit: NV Energy

    After fuel reduction work, along the Eastern boundary of Edgewood Properties near Stateline, NV. Mastication by Tahoe Douglas FPD 9/8/2025.
    (Timing: After) (~541 KB)
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    Before fuel reduction work, along the Eastern boundary of Edgewood Properties near Stateline, NV. Mastication by Tahoe Douglas FPD 9/8/2025. (Timing: Before) (~588 KB) Credit: NV Energy

    Before fuel reduction work, along the Eastern boundary of Edgewood Properties near Stateline, NV. Mastication by Tahoe Douglas FPD 9/8/2025.
    (Timing: Before) (~588 KB)
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    Burn piles created by Tahoe Douglas FPD after fuel reduction work in Van Sickle Bi-State Park in Stateline, NV on 7/17/2025. Scheduled for prescribed burning operations once conditions are favorable. (Timing: After) (~651 KB) Credit: NV Energy

    Burn piles created by Tahoe Douglas FPD after fuel reduction work in Van Sickle Bi-State Park in Stateline, NV on 7/17/2025. Scheduled for prescribed burning operations once conditions are favorable.
    (Timing: After) (~651 KB)
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    Finished fuels treatments along Incline 4100, near Sand Harbor (Timing: After) (~665 KB) Credit: Zac Bray, NLTFPD

    Finished fuels treatments along Incline 4100, near Sand Harbor
    (Timing: After) (~665 KB)
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    Finished Treatments on state lands along Incline 4100, near Sand Harbor (Timing: After) (~1,033 KB) Credit: Zac Bray, NLTFPD

    Finished Treatments on state lands along Incline 4100, near Sand Harbor
    (Timing: After) (~1,033 KB)
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    Fire mitigation and fuels reduction efforts West of Edgewood Creek near Stateline, NV on 8/28/2025. (Timing: After) (~558 KB) Credit: NV Energy

    Fire mitigation and fuels reduction efforts West of Edgewood Creek near Stateline, NV on 8/28/2025.
    (Timing: After) (~558 KB)
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    LTBMU Forest Supervisor Erick Walker attends site visit for a system hardening (pole replacement) project at Ponderosa Ranch (Timing: During) (~5,088 KB) Credit: Nanette Hansel, Ascent Environmental

    LTBMU Forest Supervisor Erick Walker attends site visit for a system hardening (pole replacement) project at Ponderosa Ranch
    (Timing: During) (~5,088 KB)
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    NLTFPD fuels crews conducting resilience corridors treatments on state lands along Incline 4100 near Sand Harbor (Timing: During) (~228 KB) Credit: Zac Bray, NLTFPD

    NLTFPD fuels crews conducting resilience corridors treatments on state lands along Incline 4100 near Sand Harbor
    (Timing: During) (~228 KB)
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    NV Energy host site visit at an active pole replacement site at Ponderosa Ranch. Picture shows the existing pole and replacement hole and excavation materials bagged for replacement. (Timing: During) (~4,691 KB) Credit: Nanette Hansel, Ascent Environmental

    NV Energy host site visit at an active pole replacement site at Ponderosa Ranch. Picture shows the existing pole and replacement hole and excavation materials bagged for replacement.
    (Timing: During) (~4,691 KB)
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    Right of Way after fuels reduction and mastication efforts on the Edgewood Properties on 8/27/20. (Timing: After) (~673 KB) Credit: NV Energy

    Right of Way after fuels reduction and mastication efforts on the Edgewood Properties on 8/27/20.
    (Timing: After) (~673 KB)
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    Right of Way after fuels reduction work by Tahoe Douglas FPD on 8/20/2025. Span near North boundary of Van Sickle Bi-State Park by Lake Pkwy. (Timing: After) (~588 KB) Credit: NV Energy

    Right of Way after fuels reduction work by Tahoe Douglas FPD on 8/20/2025. Span near North boundary of Van Sickle Bi-State Park by Lake Pkwy.
    (Timing: After) (~588 KB)
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    Right of Way before fuels reduction work at Van Sickle Bi-State Park. (Timing: Before) (~648 KB) Credit: NV Energy

    Right of Way before fuels reduction work at Van Sickle Bi-State Park.
    (Timing: Before) (~648 KB)

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