LAS VEGAS (FOX5) — Utility customers and community leaders are gathered outside the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada to urge regulators to scrap NV Energy’s proposed daily demand charge and to expand opportunities for public input at this year’s consumer hearing.
Organizers said residents, seniors, workers, faith leaders and community advocates have come together to rally outside the PUCN offices in Las Vegas.
The event comes one day before the commission’s annual public hearing, scheduled for Tuesday at 1:30 p.m.
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The daily demand charge is a new rate structure NV Energy has proposed that opponents say would raise costs for many households.
The pricing policy has been delayed amid community pushback, organizers said.
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Speakers also plan to call for greater transparency from both NV Energy and the utilities commission, arguing that the commission has scheduled only one public hearing during daytime hours despite heightened concern over rising energy bills and extreme summer heat.
The rally follows a protest earlier this month at an electric utility conference at the Fontainebleau in Las Vegas, where demonstrators urged NV Energy’s CEO to cancel the daily demand charge, organizers said.
NV Energy, an investor-owned utility, is also seeking approval to collect an additional $500 million from Nevada ratepayers for wildfire insurance, organizers said.
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