The Cost of Carbon Pollution

PUC of Nevada Uses SCC to Fulfill New Mandate on Integrated Resource Plans

gNevadaEnergy Proceedings August 2018

• Application

  Integrated resource planning

• 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

• SCC Value(s)

  IWG SCC estimates

• Reference

  Final Order, Docket Number 17-07020. 2

• 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).

• Status

  Regulation finalized.

1.  http://pucweb1.state.nv.us/PDF/AxImages/DOCKETS_2015_THRU_PRESENT/2017-7/32153.pdf ↩︎
2.  http://pucweb1.state.nv.us/PDF/AxImages/DOCKETS_2015_THRU_PRESENT/2017-7/32153.pdf ↩︎

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