Nev. Admin. Code § 704.8879

Current through November 25, 2024

Section 704.8879 - Annual reports

1. Not later than April 15 of each compliance year, each provider to which the provisions of NRS 704.7825 apply shall submit to the Commission an annual report that sets forth all the information required by this section.

2. The annual report must set forth:

(a) The capacity of each renewable energy system owned, operated or controlled by the provider, the total number of kilowatt-hours generated by each such system during the most recently completed compliance year and the percentage of that total amount which was generated directly from renewable energy.

(b) Whether, during the most recently completed compliance year, the provider began construction on, acquired or placed into operation any renewable energy system and, if so, the date of any such event.

(c) The total number of kilowatt-hours sold by the provider to its retail customers in this State during the most recently completed compliance year, excluding any kilowatt-hours sold as a result of customer participation in a voluntary option to purchase all or a portion of the customer's energy from renewable resources.

(d) The total number of kilowatt-hours that the provider generated, acquired or saved from portfolio energy systems or efficiency measures during the most recently completed compliance year and, from that total number of kilowatt-hours, subtotals for the number of kilowatt-hours:

(1) Generated or saved by the provider from its own portfolio energy systems or efficiency measures;

(2) Acquired by the provider pursuant to long-term portfolio energy credits contracts;

(3) Acquired by the provider pursuant to long-term renewable energy contracts;

(4) Acquired by the provider pursuant to short-term portfolio energy credits contracts;

(5) Acquired by the provider pursuant to short-term renewable energy contracts;

(6) Acquired or saved by the provider pursuant to energy efficiency contracts;

(7) Attributable to the provider from solar thermal systems;

(8) Fed back to the provider from net metering systems used by customer-generators pursuant to NRS 704.766 to 704.775, inclusive;

(9) Deemed to be electricity that the provider generated or acquired from a renewable energy system for the purposes of complying with its portfolio standard pursuant to paragraph (a) of subsection 3 of NRS 704.775; and

(10) Saved by the provider as a result of energy efficiency measures installed at service locations of residential customers of the provider for the purposes of paragraph (a) of subsection 2 of NRS 704.7821.

(e) The total number of kilowatt-hours that the provider:

(1) Sold as a result of customer participation in a voluntary option to purchase all or a portion of the customer's energy from renewable resources; and

(2) Sold pursuant to paragraphs (b) and (c) of subsection 2 of NRS 704.7828.

(f) The total number of kilowatt-hours that the provider:

(1) Carried forward as excess from the previous compliance years;

(2) Intends to carry forward as excess from the most recently completed compliance year;

(3) Intends to carry forward as excess from previous compliance years, indicating the amount from each separate year;

(4) Carried forward as deficiencies from previous compliance years;

(5) Intends to carry forward as deficiencies from the most recently completed compliance year; and

(6) Intends to carry forward as deficiencies from previous compliance years, indicating the amount from each separate year.

(g) The estimated number of kilowatt-hours that the provider expects to sell to its retail customers in this State during the current compliance year, with a separate subtotal for kilowatt-hours to be sold as a result of customer participation in a voluntary option to purchase all or a portion of the customer's energy from renewable resources.

(h) The estimated number of kilowatt-hours that the provider must generate, acquire or save from portfolio energy systems or efficiency measures to comply with its portfolio standard for the current compliance year, as calculated by the provider pursuant to NAC 704.8877.

(i) If the provider is a utility provider, the estimated costs for the utility provider to comply with its portfolio standard for the current compliance year. If appropriate, the utility provider must report such estimated costs for each major type of cost, such as general and administrative costs and costs for purchased power.

3. In the annual report, the provider must make an affirmative showing that the provider complied with its portfolio standard during the most recently completed compliance year. If the provider did not comply with its portfolio standard during the most recently completed compliance year, in the annual report the provider must:

(a) Make a detailed explanation for its noncompliance; and

(b) Provide any information that would support an exemption for the provider from any administrative fine or other administrative action.

4. If, to comply with its portfolio standard during the most recently completed compliance year, the provider acquired any kilowatt-hours from a renewable energy system that is not owned, operated or controlled by the provider, the annual report must include an attestation from the owner or operator of the renewable energy system that the energy represented by those kilowatt-hours:

(a) Has not been and will not be sold or otherwise exchanged for compensation or used for credit in any other state or jurisdiction; and

(b) Has not been and will not be included within a blended energy product certified to include a fixed percentage of renewable energy in any other state or jurisdiction.

Nev. Admin. Code § 704.8879

Added to NAC by Pub. Utilities Comm'n by R144-01, eff. 5-31-2002; A by R167-05, 2-23-2006; R064-10, 10-15-2010; R198-09, 1-13-2011; A by R053-15, eff. 12/21/2015; A by R027-20A, eff. 10/9/2021

NRS 703.025, 704.210, 704.7825 and 704.7828