Title 58

NRS 704.68881 Authority of provider of last resort to satisfy obligations through alternative voice service; conditions and limitations. 1. For any area in which a competitive supplier is a provider of last resort, the competitive supplier may satisfy its obligation as a provider…

NRS 704.68883 Permitted billing practices if customer charged fixed price or amount for package of services. If a competitive supplier charges a customer a fixed price or amount for a package of services, the competitive supplier, in any bill or statement for the package of servi…

NRS 704.68885 Requirements regarding discontinuation of service. 1. A competitive supplier that is not a provider of last resort may discontinue any telecommunication service by providing written notice, not less than 10 days before the date of the discontinuation, to any custome…

NRS 704.68886 Relief from obligations and status as provider of last resort: Requirements; filing application; procedure; approval or denial of application by Commission; power of Commission to declare emergency in area where alternative voice service is unavailable. 1. A competi…

NRS 704.68887 Anticompetitive acts and unlawful discrimination prohibited. In exercising flexibility in the rates, pricing, terms and conditions of any telecommunication service, a competitive supplier that is an incumbent local exchange carrier shall not engage in any anticompet…

NRS 704.701 Definitions. As used in NRS 704.701 to 704.731, inclusive, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. “Coal” includes anthracite, bituminous or subbituminous coal, and lignite. 2. “Cost of the conversion” means the cost determined by the Commission to be reasonable and…

NRS 704.706 Conversion of facility to allow firing by coal: Application for adjustment of rates; public hearing. 1. A public utility proposing to convert an existing facility in this state for the generation of electricity which is fired by gas or oil to a facility which is also …

NRS 704.711 Decision on application for adjustment; conditions; requirements for approval; federal or state grants. 1. The Commission shall render its written decision within 180 days after receiving the application for such an adjustment. 2. The Commission shall render its decis…

NRS 704.716 Calculation of amount of adjustment; effect on rates, prices and charges. 1. The amount of the adjustment must: (a) Permit the applicant to recover the cost of the conversion, net of any taxes which may be imposed on the applicant for revenue received because of the a…

NRS 704.721 Filing of tariff on date of conversion. On the date of initial conversion, the public utility shall file with the Commission a tariff which sets forth the adjustment in the rates authorized as a result of the conversion. (Added to NRS by 1983, 752)

NRS 704.726 Annual accounting of cost of conversion and revenues from adjustment in rates; termination of adjustment upon recovery of cost of conversion. 1. A public utility shall annually present to the Commission a certified accounting of the cost of conversion and an accountin…

NRS 704.731 Faith of State pledged. The faith of the State is hereby pledged that NRS 704.701 to 704.731, inclusive, will not be repealed, amended or modified to impair any tariff or charge ordered by the Commission pursuant to those sections. (Added to NRS by 1983, 753) Reductio…

NRS 704.7311 Definitions. As used in NRS 704.7311 to 704.7322, inclusive, unless the context otherwise requires, the words and terms defined in NRS 704.7312 to 704.7315, inclusive, have the meanings ascribed to them in those sections. (Added to NRS by 2013, 3074)

NRS 704.7312 “Coal-fired electric generating plant” defined. “Coal-fired electric generating plant” means an electric generating plant which burns coal to produce electricity and which is owned, in whole or in part, by an electric utility. (Added to NRS by 2013, 3074)

NRS 704.7313 “Electric utility” defined. “Electric utility” means an electric utility that primarily serves densely populated counties, as that term is defined in paragraph (c) of subsection 17 of NRS 704.110. (Added to NRS by 2013, 3074)

NRS 704.7314 “Emissions reduction and capacity replacement plan” defined. “Emissions reduction and capacity replacement plan” means a plan filed by an electric utility with the Commission pursuant to NRS 704.7316. (Added to NRS by 2013, 3074)

NRS 704.7315 “Renewable energy facility” defined. “Renewable energy facility” means an electric generating facility that uses renewable energy to produce electricity. As used in this section, “renewable energy” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 704.7715. (Added to NRS by 2013…

NRS 704.7316 Comprehensive plan for reduction of emissions from coal-fired electric generating plants and increased capacity from renewable energy facilities and other electric generating plants; contents and requirements. 1. An electric utility shall file with the Commission, as…

NRS 704.7317 Electric utility required to record certain amounts in regulatory asset. An electric utility shall, upon the completion of construction or acquisition of any electric generating plant or other facility constructed or acquired pursuant to an emissions reduction and ca…

NRS 704.7318 Sites used for production of electricity from coal-fired electric generating plant, natural gas electric generating plant or renewable energy facility: Remediation or reuse; regulation of emissions from electric generating plants constructed on certain sites. 1. To e…

NRS 704.7319 General rate proceedings filed before June 1, 2018, which include request to recover certain costs. If, in any general rate proceeding filed by an electric utility before June 1, 2018, the utility includes a request for recovery of any amount related to the implement…

NRS 704.732 Amendment to utility’s emissions reduction and capacity replacement plan required when utility requests approval and acceptance by Commission of contract with new renewable energy facility. 1. An electric utility shall file with the Commission an amendment to the util…

NRS 704.7321 Commission may recommend to electric utility modification of or amendment to emissions reduction and capacity replacement plan; actions by electric utility. If the Commission deems inadequate any portion of an emissions reduction and capacity replacement plan or any …

NRS 704.7322 Regulations. The Commission shall adopt any regulations necessary to carry out the provisions of NRS 704.7311 to 704.7322, inclusive. (Added to NRS by 2013, 3077) Surplus Assets

NRS 704.733 Definitions. As used in NRS 704.733 to 704.7341, inclusive, unless the context otherwise requires, the words and terms defined in NRS 704.7331 to 704.7337, inclusive, have the meanings ascribed to them in those sections. (Added to NRS by 2015, 2214)

NRS 704.7331 “Asset” defined. “Asset” has the meaning ascribed to the term “generation asset” in NRS 704.7575 which contains 50 or more contiguous acres, and of which all real and personal property, including, without limitation, land, structures, equipment and transmission lines…

NRS 704.7332 “Decommissioned” defined. “Decommissioned” means a surplus asset on which all operations have ceased and which has been cleared and environmentally remediated as necessary and which is ready for sale or disposal. (Added to NRS by 2015, 2214)

NRS 704.7333 “Electric utility” defined. “Electric utility” means any public utility that is in the business, on lands within this State, as sole owner or co-owner of an asset that provides sales or service of electricity to customers within or outside of this State. (Added to NR…

NRS 704.7334 “Operational” defined. “Operational” means an asset which is actively utilized or operating at full capacity or reduced capacity. (Added to NRS by 2015, 2214)

NRS 704.7335 “Post-operational reserve” defined. “Post-operational reserve” means an asset which was formerly operational that is currently closed or temporarily out-of-service, and held for future energy generation. (Added to NRS by 2015, 2214)

NRS 704.7336 “Pre-operational reserve” defined. “Pre-operational reserve” means vacant land held for future energy generation or property in planning or under construction for future energy generation and intended for the creation of a future asset. (Added to NRS by 2015, 2214)

NRS 704.7337 “Surplus” defined. “Surplus” means an asset that is out-of-service and no longer needed, suitable or reasonably intended to be used to generate electricity. (Added to NRS by 2015, 2214)

NRS 704.7338 Electric utility to file list of assets with Commission; contents of list. 1. Each electric utility that is required to file a plan pursuant to NRS 704.741 shall include as part of that plan a list of all assets of the electric utility. 2. Each electric utility not s…

NRS 704.7339 Reclassification of asset as surplus. For each asset classified by an electric utility as pre-operational reserve or post-operational reserve pursuant to: 1. Subsection 1 of NRS 704.7338, the Commission may, after notice and a hearing pursuant to NRS 704.746, reclass…

NRS 704.734 Surplus asset retirement plans: Filing; contents; subject to approval by Commission. 1. For each asset which has been classified as surplus by an electric utility pursuant to NRS 704.7338 or reclassified as surplus by the Commission pursuant to NRS 704.7339, each elec…

NRS 704.7341 Duty of electric utility to carry out surplus asset retirement plan; amendment of plan by Commission. Except as otherwise provided in this section, each electric utility that owns all or part of an asset which has been classified as surplus by an electric utility pur…

NRS 704.736 Applicability. The application of NRS 704.736 to 704.754, inclusive, is limited to any public utility in the business of supplying electricity which has an annual operating revenue in this state of $2,500,000 or more. (Added to NRS by 1983, 886; A 1995, 1105; 2009, 99…

NRS 704.7362 Definitions. As used in NRS 704.736 to 704.754, inclusive, unless the context otherwise requires, the words and terms defined in NRS 704.7364, 704.7366 and 704.7368 have the meanings ascribed to them in those sections. (Added to NRS by 2017, 937; A 2019, 14)

NRS 704.7364 “Cost effective” defined. “Cost effective” means an energy efficiency plan or energy efficiency program has a benefit-cost ratio of 1.0 or greater as determined by the Commission, using a test of the cost effectiveness of the plan or program that: 1. Is selected by t…

NRS 704.7366 “Energy efficiency and conservation program” defined. 1. “Energy efficiency and conservation program” means a program designed, intended or used to improve energy efficiency by reducing the energy consumption by a retail customer of a utility which supplies electrici…

NRS 704.7368 “Renewable energy facility” defined. “Renewable energy facility” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 704.7315. (Added to NRS by 2019, 10)

NRS 704.738 Program of optional pricing for electricity generated from renewable energy: Authorization of Commission required; Commission may authorize higher rates. 1. A utility which supplies electricity in this state may apply to the Commission for authority to charge, as part…

NRS 704.741 Plan to increase supply or decrease demands: Submission not less than triennially; joint plans by certain affiliated utilities; contents prescribed by regulation; requirements. 1. A utility which supplies electricity in this State shall, on or before June 1 of every t…

NRS 704.744 Utility required to provide overview of plan or amendment to plan to certain persons and conduct consumer session before filing such plan or amendment; inclusion of summary of consumer session in testimony of utility. 1. The Commission shall require each utility which…

NRS 704.746 Public hearing on adequacy of plan; determination by Commission; regulations. 1. After a utility has filed its plan pursuant to NRS 704.741, the Commission shall convene a public hearing on the adequacy of the plan. 2. The Commission shall determine the parties to the…

NRS 704.751 Order accepting or modifying plan or amendment to plan or specifying inadequacies; notice of utility to consent to or reject modifications; recovery of costs from customers; criteria for accepting energy efficiency plan, distributed resources plan and transmission inf…