NAC704.8791. Contracts and short-term rates for purchase of power; rates for sales.

     1. Short-term rates for the purchase of power from qualifying facilities must:

     (a) Be just and reasonable to the customers of the utility and in the public interest;

     (b) Not discriminate against qualifying facilities; and

     (c) Reflect not more than the full avoided costs of the utility.

     2. An electric utility may enter into a contract for the purchase of power from any qualifying facility. The utility shall file with the Commission any contract entered into with a qualifying facility.

     3. The rates for sales to qualifying facilities must be identical to the rates applicable to customers within the same class of customers as the qualifying facility.

     [Pub. Service Comm’n, Gen. Order 32 § 8.0, eff. 8-21-81]—(NAC A 3-27-92; A by Pub. Utilities Comm’n by R004-04, 5-25-2004)