Current through September 16, 2024
1. The supply plan of the utility must
develop and document the origins of:
(a) The
assumptions, data and projections used by the utility to calculate the costs
and benefits of its options.
(b)
The assessment of current and anticipated electric market conditions by the
utility for the region in which the utility operates.
(c) The basic economic and financial
limitations of the utility.
(d) The
assumptions used by the utility for developing the environmental costs and the
net economic benefits to the State from each of the options of the utility for
future supply.
(e) The criteria used
by the utility for determining the reserve margin.
(f) The assumptions used by the utility for
renewable resources.
(g) The
assumptions used by the utility for independent power producers.
(h) The assumptions used by the utility for
the reduction in demand and energy requirements associated with customers
exiting service from the utility and customers utilizing distributed generation
resources.
2. Regarding
generation, a utility's supply plan must contain a table of all its existing
and planned facilities for electric generation that it expects to be operating
in each of the 20 years covered by its forecast. Each of the following items of
information must be set forth in the table if applicable to a listed facility:
(a) The planned or actual commercial
operation date of the facility;
(b)
The date of the planned retirement of the facility, including the criteria used
to select that date;
(c) The type of
facility;
(d) The rated generating
capacity and net expected generating capacity of the facility;
(e) The fuel used;
(f) The capacity of the facility for storing
fuel; and
(g) The designation of the
capacity type of the facility, such as base load, intermediate or
peaking.
3. The supply
plan of a utility must include a transmission plan for the 20 years covered by
the forecast in the supply plan. The transmission plan must include, without
limitation:
(a) A summary of the capabilities
of the transmission system, including import, export and the rating of
significant transmission paths within the system of the utility, and of the
existing and planned transmission system of the utility for each year in the
period covered by the resource plan.
(b) A description of the transmission
projects the utility is considering for expanding or upgrading the capabilities
of its transmission system, the anticipated timing of those projects and the
impact of the projects on the transmission capabilities of the existing and
planned transmission system of the utility.
(c) Identification of the transmission
capacity required to serve bundled retail transmission customers, unbundled
retail transmission customers and those wholesale transmission customers for
whom the utility has an obligation to provide transmission services, for annual
and peaking periods throughout the period covered by the resource
plan.
(d) Identification of all
existing and proposed transmission service agreements, and their expiration
dates, with transmission customers for transmission service on the transmission
system of the utility and the impact of these agreements on available capacity
for bundled retail transmission customers on the proposed or existing
transmission facilities.
(e) A
table identifying all the transmission capacity that the utility has secured
for its bundled retail transmission customers on both its transmission system
and the transmission systems of other entities.
(f) A description of the participation of the
utility in regional planning organizations and an explanation of the role of
those organizations in the transmission planning process of the
utility.
(g) A summary of the
impacts of relevant orders of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued
since the utility filed its last resource plan.
(h) A demonstration that the utility has
attempted to reduce the impact of line losses upon its future resource
requirements.
4.
Regarding the purchase of power, the supply plan must contain a list showing:
(a) All sources from which the utility has
contracted to buy, or has plans or potential opportunities to buy, electric
power during the 20 years covered by the supply plan; and
(b) The amount of electric power that the
utility has contracted to buy, or has plans or potential opportunities to buy,
from each source and the years for which delivery of the electric power is
contracted or planned.
5.
The utility shall include in its supply plan a map or maps that identify the
location of each existing or planned generation or transmission facility,
renewable energy system and independent power producer that are projected to be
relied upon during the period covered by the action plan.
6. The supply plan of a utility must include
the list of all assets of the utility required by
NRS
704.7338. If a utility owns only part of an
asset included on the list, the identity of every other owner and the
percentage of the asset owned by each owner must be set forth on the
list.
Added to NAC by Pub.
Service Comm'n, eff. 6-7-84; A 2-18-88; A by Pub. Utilities Comm'n by R004-04,
5-25-2004; R088-10, 12-16-2010; A by
R069-15,
eff. 6/28/2016; A by
R005-22A,
eff. 9/16/2022
NRS
703.025,
704.210,
704.741
