NAC704.9385. Supply plan: Contents; tables; transmission plan; information regarding purchase of power; maps; conceptual renewable energy zone transmission plan.

     1. The supply plan of the utility must develop and document the origins of:

     (a) The assumptions, data and projections used by the utility to calculate the costs and benefits of its options.

     (b) The assessment of current and anticipated electric market conditions by the utility for the region in which the utility operates.

     (c) The basic economic and financial limitations of the utility.

     (d) The assumptions used by the utility for developing the environmental costs and the net economic benefits to the State from each of the options of the utility for future supply.

     (e) The criteria used by the utility for determining the reserve margin.

     (f) The assumptions used by the utility for renewable resources.

     (g) The assumptions used by the utility for independent power producers.

     (h) The assumptions used by the utility for the reduction in demand and energy requirements associated with customers exiting service from the utility and customers utilizing distributed generation resources.

     2. Regarding generation, a utility’s supply plan must contain a table of all its existing and planned facilities for electric generation that it expects to be operating in each of the 20 years covered by its forecast. Each of the following items of information must be set forth in the table if applicable to a listed facility:

     (a) The planned or actual commercial operation date of the facility;

     (b) The date of the planned retirement of the facility, including the criteria used to select that date;

     (c) The type of facility;

     (d) The rated generating capacity and net expected generating capacity of the facility;

     (e) The fuel used;

     (f) The capacity of the facility for storing fuel; and

     (g) The designation of the capacity type of the facility, such as base load, intermediate or peaking.

     3. The supply plan of a utility must include a transmission plan for the 20 years covered by the forecast in the supply plan. The transmission plan must include, without limitation:

     (a) A summary of the capabilities of the transmission system, including import, export and the rating of significant transmission paths within the system of the utility, and of the existing and planned transmission system of the utility for each year in the period covered by the resource plan.

     (b) A description of the transmission projects the utility is considering for expanding or upgrading the capabilities of its transmission system, the anticipated timing of those projects and the impact of the projects on the transmission capabilities of the existing and planned transmission system of the utility.

     (c) Identification of the transmission capacity required to serve bundled retail transmission customers, unbundled retail transmission customers and those wholesale transmission customers for whom the utility has an obligation to provide transmission services, for annual and peaking periods throughout the period covered by the resource plan.

     (d) Identification of all existing and proposed transmission service agreements, and their expiration dates, with transmission customers for transmission service on the transmission system of the utility and the impact of these agreements on available capacity for bundled retail transmission customers on the proposed or existing transmission facilities.

     (e) A table identifying all the transmission capacity that the utility has secured for its bundled retail transmission customers on both its transmission system and the transmission systems of other entities.

     (f) A description of the participation of the utility in regional planning organizations and an explanation of the role of those organizations in the transmission planning process of the utility.

     (g) A summary of the impacts of relevant orders of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued since the utility filed its last resource plan.

     (h) A demonstration that the utility has attempted to reduce the impact of line losses upon its future resource requirements.

     4. Regarding the purchase of power, the supply plan must contain a list showing:

     (a) All sources from which the utility has contracted to buy, or has plans or potential opportunities to buy, electric power during the 20 years covered by the supply plan; and

     (b) The amount of electric power that the utility has contracted to buy, or has plans or potential opportunities to buy, from each source and the years for which delivery of the electric power is contracted or planned.

     5. The utility shall include in its supply plan a map or maps that identify the location of each existing or planned generation or transmission facility, renewable energy system and independent power producer that are projected to be relied upon during the period covered by the action plan.

     6. In addition to the transmission plan required by subsection 3, the supply plan of a utility must include, as a discrete but integrated item in the supply plan, a conceptual renewable energy zone transmission plan for the 20 years covered by the forecast in the supply plan. The renewable energy zone transmission plan must include distinct conceptual transmission plans, which may include capacity for export to other states, for serving each of the renewable energy zones designated by the Commission pursuant to NAC 704.880. Each of the distinct conceptual transmission plans must include:

     (a) A description of the construction or expansion of transmission facilities required to be added to the utility’s existing transmission system;

     (b) An estimate of cost at the planning level, including, without limitation, estimates for permitting and other expenses of transmission development and estimated development schedules for the transmission facilities included in the transmission plan, based on information known by the utility at the time the transmission plan is submitted to the Commission;

     (c) A description of any restrictions or limitations on the construction or expansion of transmission facilities, including, without limitation, generator tie-lines in the applicable transmission plan due to any local topographical, environmental, governmental, land use or other factors or limitations that are known by the utility at the time the transmission plan is submitted to the Commission; and

     (d) An estimate of the capacity of the renewable energy resources capable of being developed in the applicable zone, based on information that is known to the utility at the time the transmission plan is submitted to the Commission.

     (Added to NAC by Pub. Service Comm’n, eff. 6-7-84; A 2-18-88; A by Pub. Utilities Comm’n by R004-04, 5-25-2004; R088-10, 12-16-2010)