Churchill County legal - 27760

BEFORE THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION OF NEVADA

NOTICE OF ELECTRIC UTILITIES’ DISTRIBUTED RESOURCE PLAN UPDATE

TO ITS JOINT INTEGRATED RESOURCE PLAN

AND

NOTICE OF PREHEARING CONFERENCE

On September 6, 2022, Nevada Power Company d/b/a NV Energy and Sierra Pacific Power

Company d/b/a NV Energy (together “NV Energy”) filed with the Public Utilities Commission

of Nevada (“Commission”) a joint application, designated as Docket No. 22-09001 (“Joint

Application”), for acceptance of their 2022 Joint Distributed Resources Plan Update (“DRP Update”)

as it related to their 2022-2041 Joint Integrated Resource Plan (“IRP”).

This Notice serves only to notify the public that the Commission has received the abovereferenced

filing. It is the responsibility of interested persons to review the filing and monitor the

proceedings to determine their desired levels of involvement based on how this matter may affect

their unique situations. The details provided within this Notice are for informational purposes only

and are not meant to be an all-inclusive overview of the filing. The Commission may consider and

adopt alternative proposals not contained within the filing but which are related to the subject matter

of the filing and supported by substantial evidence.

NV Energy filed the Joint Application pursuant to the Nevada Revised Statutes (“NRS”) and

Nevada Administrative Code (“NAC”), Chapters 703 and 704, including but not limited to, NRS

704.741 and NAC 704.9239 and 703.535. Pursuant to NRS 703.190 and NAC 703.527 et seq.,

NV Energy requests that certain information in the Joint Application receive confidential treatment.

NV Energy states that the Joint Application represents its compliance with NAC 704.9239 and

covers 2023 and 2024, which are the remaining years of the three-year action plan that NV Energy

filed as part of its IRP filed in Docket No. 21-06001.

Interested and affected persons may file comments or petitions for leave to intervene made

pursuant to NAC 703.578 through 703.600 on or before WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2022.

A person who wishes to participate as a commenter may file written comments pursuant

to NAC 703.491. A commenter is not a party of record and shall not take any action that only a

party of record may take. Pursuant to NAC 703.500, only parties of record are entitled to enter

an appearance, introduce relevant evidence, examine and cross-examine witnesses, make

arguments, make and argue motions, and generally participate in the proceeding.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, pursuant to NAC 703.655, the Commission has scheduled

a PREHEARING CONFERENCE in this Docket to be held as follows:

MONDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2022

1:30 p.m.

Dial in by your location:

(775) 687-0999 (Northern Nevada)

(702) 486-5260 (Southern Nevada)

Parties will appear and otherwise participate in the prehearing conference remotely via

telephone. Parties in this matter must obtain an access code for this telephonic prehearing

conference by emailing Commission Administrative Attorney Jared Aranda at jaranda@puc.nv.gov

no later than THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2022, at 2:00 p.m. Parties should provide the title/role

in associated business or organization, and business address for each person who intends to

participate in the prehearing conference.

Members of the public can access the prehearing conference at the time noticed herein

via the Commission’s live stream link on its website at https://puc.nv.gov. During the date and

time noticed herein, the public may listen to the prehearing conference in person at the following

locations:

Hearing Room A

Public Utilities Commission of Nevada

1150 East William Street

Carson City, Nevada 89701

VIA VIDEOCONFERENCE TO

Hearing Room A

Public Utilities Commission of Nevada

9075 West Diablo Drive, Suite 250

Las Vegas, Nevada 89148

The purpose of the prehearing conference is to formulate and simplify issues involved in

this proceeding and set a hearing and procedural schedule. At the prehearing conference, the

Commission may take any action authorized by NAC 703.655.

The Commission is not responsible for providing clerical or administrative assistance or

materials to parties during Commission proceedings. If such assistance is necessary, parties must

make other arrangements for this type of assistance.

The Notice is available for public viewing on the Commission’s website: https://puc.nv.gov;

and at the offices of the Commission: 1150 East William Street, Carson City, Nevada 89701 and

9075 West Diablo Drive, Suite 250, Las Vegas, Nevada 89148.

To receive any further notices in this matter, a person must request in writing to be placed on

the service list for this proceeding.

By the Commission,

______________________________________

TRISHA OSBORNE,

Assistant Commission Secretary

Dated: Carson City, Nevada

09/13/22

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Pub: September 22, 2022 Ad#27760