Mosey Solar enters public scoping period near Pahrump

Mosey Solar has entered its public scoping period near Pahrump.

The 500-megawatt solar and battery project is now in the first formal stage where Nye County residents can influence what federal reviewers study. The Bureau of Land Management, local officials and the public identify the issues that must be analyzed in the environmental review. For a utility-scale project in the Pahrump Valley, the questions center on water demand, desert habitat, dust, construction traffic, access roads, transmission build-out and whether an industrial solar facility belongs on land near growing residential areas.

The project is proposed by Renew Development HoldCo LLC, identified in development documents as Renew Development HoldCo LLC c/o Clearway Energy Group LLC. Mosey Solar is a photovoltaic solar power project with battery storage on BLM-managed public land designated as a solar variance area in Nye County, and the federal permitting dashboard puts the footprint at about 3,568 acres entirely on public land administered by the BLM.

A Federal Register notice dated July 29, 2026, announced the intent to prepare a Resource Management Plan amendment and an Environmental Impact Statement for the proposed project in Clark and Nye counties. The permitting dashboard lists Mosey Solar as a Fast-41 covered project and shows a Section 106 review stage running from May 2, 2026, to June 19, 2028.

The plan of development was first submitted in February 2022 and revised in January 2024. The location is about eight miles southeast of Pahrump. Similar solar proposals in southern Nevada have drawn scrutiny over land use and cultural resources, including Basin and Range Watch’s warning that the Purple Sage site in South Pahrump Valley contains badland topography and mammoth fossils.