Following a public hearing last week, the city council annexed a 108-acre county parcel north of and adjacent to the Victory Logistics District, to be the site of a future large gas-fired power plant proposed by Mark IV Capital.
After little discussion and no opposition, the council unanimously approved the annexation at its Dec. 17 meeting. Mayor Neal McIntyre commented that the city council wants to annex any county islands within the city’s boundaries, adding that when a county parcel is annexed into the city, the city receives the property taxes, not the county.
The recently annexed property will be the future site of a very large gas power plant that will help power major energy users in the Victory Logistics development, according to Scott Barnes, Mark IV Capital’s vice president of entitlement, who spoke about the project last month at a Lyon County Commission meeting.
Barnes told the commission the modular power plant will begin generating about 250 megawatts of power and will scale up generation to 1.8 gigawatts when power demands from activities such as data centers require it. Data centers drive power demand because they need vast amounts of electricity to operate servers and cooling systems, he said.
Barnes compared the generation of 1.8 gigawatts of power to today’s 2 gigawatts of power generation for all of Reno-Sparks and Washoe County.
The site of the 107.87-acre annexation is undeveloped at this time and has no current vehicular access. The triangular-shaped parcel is bounded by Interstate 80 directly to the west, Bureau of Reclamation land to the east, and city of Fernley parcels abutting the property to the south, according to a city staff report.
It is one of 107 parcels within city limits that is considered a county island.
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