2022 Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 704 - Regulation of Public Utilities Generally
NRS 704.7867 - Plan to accelerate transportation electrification; stakeholder engagement meetings; filing of schedules; participation to be offered on a nondiscriminatory basis; regulations.

1. An electric utility in this State shall file with the Commission, as part of the distributed resources plan required to be submitted pursuant to NRS 704.741, a plan to accelerate transportation electrification in this State. Two or more electric utilities that are affiliated through common ownership and that have an interconnected system for the transmission of electricity shall submit a joint plan.

2. A plan submitted pursuant to subsection 1 may include:

(a) Investments or incentives to facilitate the deployment of charging infrastructure and associated electrical equipment which supports transportation electrification across all customer classes including, without limitation, investments or incentives for residential charging infrastructure at single-family homes and multi-unit dwellings for both shared and assigned parking spaces;

(b) Investments or incentives to facilitate the electrification of public transit and publicly owned vehicle fleets;

(c) Investments or incentives to increase access to the use of electricity as a transportation fuel in historically underserved communities;

(d) Rate designs, programs or management systems that encourage the charging of vehicles in a manner that supports the operation and optimal integration of transportation electrification into the electric grid, including, without limitation, proposed schedules necessary to implement the rate designs or programs; and

(e) Customer education and culturally competent and linguistically appropriate outreach programs that increase awareness of investments, incentives, rate designs and programs of the type listed in paragraphs (a) to (d), inclusive, and of the benefits of transportation electrification.

3. During the 9 months immediately before an electric utility files its first plan pursuant to subsection 1 and during the 12 months immediately before an electric utility files any subsequent plan pursuant to subsection 1, the electric utility shall conduct at least one stakeholder engagement meeting each calendar quarter to discuss the development of the plan and to solicit comments and gather ideas for improvements or additions to the plan which support transportation electrification. Each stakeholder engagement meeting must be open to participation by the Regulatory Operations Staff of the Commission, personnel from the Bureau of Consumer Protection in the Office of the Attorney General and any other interested person. Each plan filed pursuant to subsection 1 must include a summary of the stakeholder engagement meetings conducted in the 9- or 12-month period, as applicable, immediately preceding the filing of the plan, which must include, without limitation, summaries of the comments and ideas provided by the participants.

4. Not more than 60 days after the issuance of an order by the Commission pursuant to NRS 704.751 approving or modifying a plan submitted pursuant to subsection 1, an electric utility which supplies electricity in this State shall file with the Commission any schedules necessary to implement the rate designs and programs included in the plan.

5. To the extent that a plan submitted pursuant to subsection 1 includes programs in which customers may participate, eligibility for participation by customers in such programs must be offered by the electric utility on a nondiscriminatory basis to both bundled retail customers and eligible customers, as defined in NRS 704B.080, who purchase or plan to purchase electricity from a provider of new electric resources, as defined in NRS 704B.130.

6. The Commission shall adopt regulations necessary to carry out the provisions of this section. The regulations adopted pursuant to this section may require an annual review of the progress and budgets of an approved plan submitted pursuant to this section.

7. As used in this section:

(a) "Block" means the smallest geographical unit whose boundaries were designated by the Bureau of the Census of the United States Department of Commerce in its topographically integrated geographic encoding and referencing system.

(b) "Block group" means a combination of blocks whose numbers begin with the same digit.

(c) "Census tract" means a combination of block groups.

(d) "Electric utility" has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 704.187.

(e) "Historically underserved community" means:

(1) A census tract:

(I) Designated as a qualified census tract by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development pursuant to 26 U.S.C. § 42(d)(5)(B)(ii); or

(II) In which, in the immediately preceding census, at least 20 percent of households were not proficient in the English language;

(2) A public school in this State:

(I) In which 75 percent or more of the enrolled pupils in the school are eligible for free or reduced-price lunches pursuant to 42 U.S.C. §§ 1751 et seq.; or

(II) That participates in universal meal service in high poverty areas pursuant to Section 104 of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010, Public Law 111-296; or

(3) Qualified tribal land, as defined in NRS 370.0325.

(f) "Transportation electrification" means the use of electricity from external sources to power, wholly or in part, passenger vehicles, trucks, buses, trains, boats or other equipment that transports goods or people.

(Added to NRS by 2021, 3782)