Few people know that in Las Vegas, cogeneration is essential. MGM Mirage owns the Grand, Luxor, Bellagio, Mirage and now the City Center. They do their best to

Few people know that in Las Vegas, cogeneration is essential. MGM Mirage owns the Grand, Luxor, Bellagio, Mirage and now the City Center. They do their best to provide their own power or at least provide complete backup capability in the event of an outage. The new City Center development has its own 8.5 megawatt generating facility. http://www.energytimes.com/pages/departments/1002/earthmatters1002.html http://www.energytimes.com/pages/departments/1002/earthmatte... Most people think all that glitz comes from the Hoover Dam, but I think they they generate a lot of it themselves.