Let’s get one thing straight, the Energy Choice Initiative — Question 3 — on the November ballot is not deregulation of the electricity market. It would replace Nevada’s regulated energy monopoly with a regulated competitive energy market. It would amend the Constitution to require lawmakers by July 1, 2023, to “establish an open, competitive retail electric market, to … [Read more...]
How Will Energy Choice Affect Rural Nevada?
Part 2 If the Energy Choice Initiative (ECI) amending the state Constitution to create a competitive market for electricity passes again in the fall its impact on power bills in rural Nevada will depend on how the Legislature writes the rules to make it happen. David Luttrell — general manager of the Lincoln County Power District No. 1, president of the Nevada Rural … [Read more...]
How Will Energy Choice Affect Rural Nevadans?
One of the big questions lingering about a constitutional amendment on the November ballot that would end electric power monopolies and create an open and competitive market electricity is: Just how will it affect customers of rural Nevada’s power cooperatives? Question 3 on the 2016 General Election ballot — the Energy Choice Initiative (ECI) — passed by an overwhelming … [Read more...]
Regulators Approve Major Report Critical of Energy Choice Ballot Question
By Riley Snyder, The Nevada Independent The Public Utilities Commission voted Monday to approve a 109-page report warning that adoption of a retail energy choice ballot question in 2018 could raise power rates and cost millions of dollars to implement. In a unanimous vote, the three PUC members voted to approve the draft report analyzing costs, benefits and a potential … [Read more...]
Customers Should Be Able to Shop for Electricity
Question 3 on the 2016 General Election ballot — the Energy Choice Initiative — passed by an overwhelming 72.4 percent to 27.6 percent. The measure failed in only one county, White Pine, but by only four votes. Because the measure would amend the state Constitution it is back on the ballot this fall for final voter approval, but this time around a coalition headed by the … [Read more...]