2011 Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 704 - Regulation of Public Utilities Generally
NRS 704.787 - Authority to sell electricity and provide transmission service and distribution service to certain customers without being subject to jurisdiction of Public Utilities Commission of Nevada; tariff for distribution service; duties of certain electric utility; duty to assess feasibility of constructing hydrokinetic generation project below Hoover Dam.

1. The Colorado River Commission of Nevada may sell electricity and provide transmission service or distribution service, or both, only to meet the existing and future requirements of:

(a) Any customer that the Colorado River Commission of Nevada on July 16, 1997, was serving or had a contract to serve; and

(b) The Southern Nevada Water Authority and its member agencies for their water and wastewater operations,

without being subject to the jurisdiction of the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada.

2. The Public Utilities Commission of Nevada shall establish a just and reasonable tariff for such electric distribution service to be provided by an electric utility that primarily serves densely populated counties to the Colorado River Commission of Nevada for its sale of electricity or electric distribution services, or both, to any customer that the Colorado River Commission of Nevada on July 16, 1997, was serving or had a contract to serve, and to the Southern Nevada Water Authority and its member agencies to meet the existing and future requirements for their water and wastewater operations.

3. An electric utility that primarily serves densely populated counties shall provide electric distribution service pursuant to the tariff required by subsection 2.

4. The Colorado River Commission of Nevada shall:

(a) Review and analyze available information, studies and reports to assess the feasibility of constructing a hydrokinetic generation project below Hoover Dam to assist in meeting any existing or future requirements described in subsection 1; and

(b) If the analysis indicates that construction of such a hydrokinetic generation project is feasible, present that analysis to appropriate agencies of the Federal Government and request that those agencies determine whether to construct a hydrokinetic generation project below Hoover Dam.

5. As used in this section:

(a) Electric utility that primarily serves densely populated counties means an electric utility that, with regard to the provision of electric service, derives more of its annual gross operating revenue in this State from customers located in counties whose population is 700,000 or more than it does from customers located in counties whose population is less than 700,000.

(b) Hydrokinetic generation project means a project that generates electricity from waves or directly from the flow of water in rivers, streams, channels and other inland waterways.

(c) Southern Nevada Water Authority has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 538.041.

(Added to NRS by 2001, 1266; A 2009, 873; 2011, 1311)