Nev. Admin. Code § 704.Sec. 12.1

Current through November 25, 2024

Section 704.Sec. 12.1 - NEW

Except as otherwise provided in section 14, beginning in calendar year 2022, the affiliated utilities shall, in each year following a biennial energy storage target, submit an energy storage update within the energy supply plan of the affiliated utilities. The energy storage update must include a description of the progress of the affiliated utilities in meeting biennial energy storage targets, including, without limitation:

1. The cumulative level of installed and operational energy storage and energy storage under contract, including, without limitation, energy storage projects previously identified in a distributed resources plan;

2. A description of where energy storage projects that are under contract but are not yet operational are in the development timeline;

3. The type of technology being deployed for each energy storage project;

4. The procured equivalent nameplate capacity of the energy storage projects in both megawatts and megawatt-hours;

5. The location of the project, including, without limitation, the city and zip code, if that information is public;

6. The primary and, if applicable, secondary application of each energy storage project;

7. The process through which the energy storage project was procured including, without limitation, an identification of whether the project was procured through a request for proposal, bilateral negotiations or other means;

8. Relevant dates for each energy storage project including, without limitation, the contract date, the estimated commercial operation date for planned projects and the actual commercial operation date for projects that are already in operation;

9. The project owner and the operator of each energy storage project, including, without limitation, the product manufacturer;

10. Actual equivalent capacity in both megawatts and megawatt-hours of projects with a capacity greater than 20 megawatts;

11. An update on the energy storage procurement activities included in the most recent resource plan of the affiliated utilities; and

12. The results of annual storage capacity tests of installed energy storage systems with an initial capacity greater than 1 megawatt, including, without limitation, a report of actual capacity expressed in megawatts, the actual storage capacity expressed in megawatt-hours, and the annual degradation level, if any.

Nev. Admin. Code § 704.Sec. 12.1

Added to NAC by Pub. Utilities Comm'n by R106-19A, eff. 5/21/2020

NRS 703.025, 704.210, 704.796