Apex Industrial Park, Nevada

Apex is a large industrial settlement, north of Las Vegas, without a single residential building. Highway 93 passes through an electrical production center, with four separate gas fired power plants (the Harry Allen, Silverhawk, Apex, and Chuck Lenzie generating stations), spurred into production by the Enron-compelled energy crisis, and three industrial scale photovoltaic solar power plants, one of which covers more than two square miles. Much of the area was the grounds of a former Kerr McGee rocket fuel plant and propellant storage facility. A portion of the property was developed into the Blue Oasis a shrimp farm, which intended to supply some of the 20 million pounds of shrimp that are consumed in Las Vegas annually, 90% of which comes frozen from Asia. The operation closed in 2012 after a year.