Why are wind-energy projects rare in Nevada?

Nevada’s renewable energy sources are made up of a hodgepodge of 20 geothermal sites in the north, seven operating solar set-ups in the south with four more in the works, and a dozen other projects based on other technologies, including, of course, the hydropower behemoth, Hoover Dam. Among those projects is only one wind facility, the two-year old Spring Valley operation owned by Pattern Energy Group Inc. near Ely. The 66-turb