PUC of Nevada Uses SCC to Fulfill New Mandate on Integrated Resource Plans
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Application
Integrated resource planning
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Date
August 2018 -
Details
Nevada’s PUC passed an order finalizing the regulation to implement Senate Bill 65, which directs utilities to consider the economic and environmental benefits of their integrated resource plans. 1
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SCC Value(s)
IWG SCC estimates
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Reference
Final Order, Docket Number 17-07020. 2
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Legal Authority
- Senate Bill 65 passed during the state’s 2017 Legislative session, making changes to NV’s IRP statute that compel the Commission to give preference to supply resources that “[p]rovide the greatest economic and environmental benefits to the State…(and among other requirements) reduce customer exposure to the price volatility of fossil fuels and the potential costs of carbon.”
- NRS Chapter 74, Sec. 6.
- Nev. Admin. Code 704.937 (5)-(6).
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Status
Regulation finalized.
- http://pucweb1.state.nv.us/PDF/AxImages/DOCKETS_2015_THRU_PRESENT/2017-7/32153.pdf ↩︎
- http://pucweb1.state.nv.us/PDF/AxImages/DOCKETS_2015_THRU_PRESENT/2017-7/32153.pdf ↩︎
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