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Nevada
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State Planning and Incentive Structures | Energy Efficiency Actions | Energy Supply Actions
State Planning and Incentive Structures
Lead By Example—Energy Efficiency in Public Facilities
Status: Completed
Details: NRS Title 58, Chapter 701 directs the Director of the Office of Energy to develop a state energy reduction plan requiring state agencies to reduce grid-based energy purchases for state-owned buildings by 20% by 2015. It also requires the Director to adopt guidelines establishing a Green Building Standards for all occupied public buildings whose construction will be sponsored or financed by the State or a local government.
Lead By Example—Energy Efficient Appliance and Equipment Purchase Requirements for Public Facilities
Status: No Activity Identified
Lead By Example—Clean Energy Goals for Public Facilities
Status: No Activity Identified
Lead By Example—Energy Efficiency and Alternative Fuel Goals for Public Fleets
Status: Completed
Details: Statute (NAC 486A.160) requires fleets containing 10% or more vehicles owned, leased, or operated by the state to acquire alternative fuel vehicles (AFV) or EPA-certified ultra-low emission vehicles. Beginning in FY 2000 and each year thereafter, 90% of new vehicles obtained by covered fleets must be either AFVs or certified low-emission vehicles.
State and Regional Energy Planning
Status: Completed
Details: Nevada is part of the Western Governor's Association (WGA). In June 2006 the Governors signed resolutions to meet or exceed goals of 30,000 MW of clean energy by 2015 and a 20% increase in energy efficiency by 2020, to encourage adequate funding for state energy efficiency and renewable generation programs, and to facilitate development of regional energy markets.
Determining the Air Quality Benefits of Clean Energy—Energy Efficiency/Renewable Energy Set Asides (NOX Budget Trading Program)
Status: No Activity Identified
Determining the Air Quality Benefits of Clean Energy—Energy Efficiency/Renewable Energy Set Asides (CAIR Budget Trading Program)
Status: No Activity Identified
Energy Efficiency Actions
Energy Efficiency Portfolio Standards
Status: Completed
Details: The Governor signed Senate Bill 188 bill into law on June 18, 2005, allowing electric utilities to receive credits under the portfolio standard for energy savings from certain energy efficiency measures.
Public Benefit Funds for Energy Efficiency
Status: No Activity Identified
Details: The Nevada restructuring law creating a PBF for energy efficiency was repealed; the state now funds energy efficiency through utilities' Integrated Resource Plans (IRP).
Building Codes for Energy Efficiency—Commercial Programs
Status: Goes Beyond ECPA
Details: 2003 IECC is mandatory for all jurisdictions that have not adopted an energy code; can use COMcheck to show compliance. Jurisdictions in southern Nevada have adopted the 2006 Southern Nevada Energy Code, based on the 2006 IECC with amendments. Jurisdictions in Northern Nevada have adopted the 2006 IECC. COMcheck can be used to show compliance for the envelope and mechanical only.
Building Codes for Energy Efficiency—Residential Programs
Status: Goes Beyond ECPA
Details: 2003 IECC is mandatory state-wide; 2003 IECC. Effective May 1, 2007, the 2006 Southern Nevada Energy Code will require six counties to meet the 2006 IECC with amendments. REScheck and COMcheck can be used to show compliance for the envelope and mechanical only.
State Appliance Efficiency Standards
Status: Completed/Further Work In Progress
Details: On June 14, 2007, Governor Jim Gibbons signed Assembly Bill 178, which requires the Director of the Office of Energy to establish minimum energy-efficiency standards for general-purpose lights sold in Nevada on and after January 1, 2012. For all practical purposes, this bill will phase out all general service incandescent light bulbs within 4.5 years.
Energy Supply Actions
Renewable Portfolio Standards
Status: Completed
Details: In June 2005, through Assembly Bill 03, the existing portfolio requirement for the state's two investor-owned utilities, Nevada Power and Sierra Pacific Power, increased by 3% every two years, to 20% of sales by 2015, allowing utilities to meet the standard through renewable energy generation (or credits) and energy savings from efficiency measures. Not less than 5% of the portfolio energy standard must be generated, acquired, or saved from solar energy systems. Nevada's original RPS law was signed in 1997.
Public Benefit Funds for Clean Energy Supply
Status: No Activity Identified
Output-Based Environmental Regulations
Status: No Activity Identified
Interconnection Standards—Clean Distributed Generation
Status: Completed
Details: The Public Utility Commission of Nevada (PUCN) adopted interconnection standards for customers of Nevada Power and Sierra Power in 2003. On-site generators up to 20 MW in capacity are eligible to net meter. Nevada's standards are similar to IEEE 1547 standards, California's interconnection rule and the model interconnection rule established by NARUC. Additional insurance requirements are not specified and a system does not have to have an external disconnect.
Interconnection Standards—Net Metering
Status: Completed/Further Work In Progress
Details: On January 2, 2008, the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada (PUCN) posted a request for proposed language and specific recommendations regarding a new, standardized net metering tariff and contract (Docket 07-06024) in response to AB 178. The deadline for responses was January 25, 2008. On June 14, 2007, Governor Jim Gibbons signed AB 178, which allows distributed renewable energy systems of one megawatt or less to qualify for net metering. In December 2003, the Nevada Public Utilities Commission adopted rules that provided for a net metering program for on-site renewable energy installations of less than 30 kW using solar, wind, biomass, hydro, or geothermal technologies. Existing law authorizes a customer of an electric utility to use a net metering system to offset part or all of the customer's electricity use. The system must use renewable energy as its primary source of generation, and have a generating capacity of not more than 150 kW.