Timber firm closes plant supplying NV Energy
By Jane Braxton Little, Sacramento Bee
Sierra Pacific Industries’ 15 power plant workers learned Friday that the timber company was closing the electricity-generation facility at the end of their shifts.
Sierra Pacific officials also sent a notice to NV Energy, a Reno utility company, announcing that they were suspending operations at the Loyalton plant “effective immediately,” said Mark Pawlicki, a spokesman for the Anderson-based timber company.
He cited federal government decisions that have “cut off” the supply of wood chips and waste used at the co-generation plant in Sierra County.
