Arevon Energy marks 10 years of operations at Nevada’s Moapa Solar Project and announces three new storage developments
On September 26, Arevon Energy and the Moapa Band of Paiutes gathered on the Moapa River Indian Reservation in Clark County, Nevada, to mark ten years of commercial operations at the 344 MW Moapa Solar Project. The event brought together Tribal members, elected officials, and Arevon staff to recognize a decade of partnership since the facility first came online in 2016.
Arevon and Moapa Band of Paiutes celebrate a decade of solar operations
The September 26 event wasn’t just a milestone party. It was a moment of recognition for a Tribe that helped pioneer something bigger. Chairwoman Janet Myers noted that the Moapa Band of Paiutes is widely recognized as one of the first Tribal Nations to enter the solar industry — a distinction that carries real weight ten years on.
Speakers included Congressman Steven Horsford, representing Nevada’s 4th District, former Tribal Chairman Vickie Simmons, and Arevon CEO Justin Johnson. Horsford called the project “a testament” to Nevada’s clean energy leadership, pointing to the Tribe-industry partnership as a model for delivering lasting environmental and economic benefits at the local level.
Arevon owns and operates more than 6.3 GW of solar and energy storage projects across 18 states, with 370 MW of new capacity currently under construction nationwide.
Why the project was built on Tribal land and how the partnership formed
Moapa Solar was sited on the Moapa River Indian Reservation under a long-term land agreement between Arevon and the Tribe — an arrangement that gave the Moapa Band of Paiutes a reliable, ongoing source of revenue through landowner payments throughout the project’s entire operating life.
For Arevon, the Reservation offered suitable land for utility-scale solar development in the American Southwest, fitting the company’s broader regional strategy. That working relationship became the foundation for additional Arevon projects on the same Reservation. Three of them are now in active development.
Ten years of energy, emissions, and economic outputs from Moapa Solar
The numbers behind a decade of operations are substantial. The 344 MW facility generates enough electricity each year to power more than 53,000 homes and avoids more than 325,000 metric tons of CO₂ emissions annually compared to conventional generation sources.
Water savings are another significant output — solar generation at Moapa avoids the use of approximately 6.9 billion gallons of water per year. In an arid region where scarcity is a real and ongoing concern, that figure carries weight most people don’t immediately think about.
The project has also delivered ongoing landowner payments to the Tribe and contributed property tax revenues to Clark County over its operating life. Those contributions support local services and essential area operations, a benefit reaching well beyond the Reservation’s boundaries.
Three new solar and battery storage projects planned for the Moapa River Indian Reservation
Arevon isn’t stopping at the anniversary. The company announced three additional projects in the area, each pairing solar generation with battery storage — a combination that lets operators store electricity during low-demand periods and dispatch it when demand peaks.
The first is the Moapa Energy Project, a 250 MW / 1,000 MWh battery storage addition to the existing Moapa Solar site, anticipated to be operational in 2029.
The second is the Eagle Shadow Mountain Energy Project — a 300 MW / 1,200 MWh battery storage addition to Arevon’s existing 383 MW Eagle Shadow Mountain Solar facility, also on the Reservation. That solar project has been operating since 2023 and sells power to NV Energy under a long-term purchase agreement. The storage addition is expected online in 2028.
The third is Yahthumb, a proposed solar-plus-storage development that would add roughly 316 MW of solar generation alongside 250 MW / 1,000 MWh of battery storage on the Reservation, with an anticipated operational date of 2031. Together, the three projects are designed to strengthen grid reliability and extend the value of both existing and new solar generation across the region.
Arevon’s broader footprint and Nevada investment context
These Nevada projects sit within a much larger national operation. Arevon owns and operates more than 6.3 GW of solar and energy storage projects across 18 states, with 370 MW of new capacity currently under construction nationwide.
Nevada has become one of the more prominent states for utility-scale renewable energy development in the American West. Arevon’s continued investment in the Moapa area deepens a development relationship with the Moapa Band of Paiutes that now spans more than a decade.
What this means for Moapa Solar going forward
Ten years in, the Moapa Solar Project stands as a working example of what a long-term partnership between a developer and a Tribal Nation can produce: reliable energy output, measurable environmental benefits, and a steady economic contribution to the community hosting the facility.
The three projects now in development — Moapa Energy, Eagle Shadow Mountain Energy, and Yahthumb — would add more than 860 MW of battery storage capacity and 316 MW of new solar generation to the Reservation over the next several years. If all three hit their anticipated operational dates between 2028 and 2031, the Moapa River Indian Reservation will host one of the more significant concentrations of solar-plus-storage infrastructure in Nevada.
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