NAC704.9706. Conservation and energy efficiency plan: Submission; periodic filing; eligibility of programs to recover costs; order accepting plan or specifying inadequacies.

     1. A gas utility applying to implement a portfolio of substantive conservation and energy efficiency programs must submit a plan for acceptance by the Commission in conjunction with a general rate case filed pursuant to NRS 704.110 or in an application to implement its conservation and energy efficiency plan filed pursuant to NAC 704.9704.

     2. Every 3 years from the date of the final order in which the gas utility’s plan was initially accepted, the utility shall file a conservation and energy efficiency plan with an application to implement its conservation and energy efficiency plan that meets the requirements of NAC 704.9704.

     3. In the case of a gas utility which also provides electric service, the conservation and energy efficiency plan required in subsections 1 and 2 may be submitted in conjunction with the electric utility’s resource plan, as defined in NAC 704.9156.

     4. Only substantive conservation and energy efficiency programs in a conservation and energy efficiency plan accepted by the Commission are eligible to recover costs pursuant to NAC 704.9704 and 704.9714.

     5. Within 180 days after a gas utility has filed its conservation and energy efficiency plan, unless filed in conjunction with a general rate case, the Commission will issue an order accepting the plan as filed or specifying portions of the plan which the Commission deems to be inadequate.

     (Added to NAC by Pub. Utilities Comm’n by R095-08, eff. 9-29-2008)